GW Instek GRF-1300A - Manual (Page 3)

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S AFETY INSTRUCTIONS ................................................................ 2
A BOUT THIS BOOK ....................................................................... 5
I NTRODUCTION to the GRF-1300A ............................................... 6
Package Contents .................................................................................................... 8
Product Specifications and Function........................................................................ 8
Usage Instructions .................................................................................................. 9
O VERVIEW of the TIME and FREQUENCY DOMAIN .................... 16
Observation from a different perspective ................................................................16
A N INTRODUCTION to SPECTRUM ANALYZERS ........................ 24
Broadband Receiver ................................................................................................24
Attenuator ..............................................................................................................25
Resolution Bandwidth Filter....................................................................................25
Detector .................................................................................................................27
Video Bandwidth Filter ...........................................................................................27
R F COMMUNICATION and SIGNALS EXPERIMENTS .................. 31
Experiment 1: Basic Operation of a Spectrum Analyzer...........................................32
Experiment 2: Measuring a Baseband Waveform .....................................................36
Experiment 3: Different Baseband Waveforms and their Harmonic Measurement ...40
Experiment 4: Measurement of the RF Carrier.........................................................47
Experiment 5: AM Signal Measurement ..................................................................60
Experiment 6: FM signal measurement ...................................................................70
Experiment 7: Using a Spectrum Analyzer in Communication Systems ...................81
Experiment 8: Measurement of communication products .......................................88
Experiment 9: Production Line Applications ...........................................................91
Experiment 10: Mixer ..............................................................................................96
T EST for LEARNING OUTCOMES .............................................. 108
A PPENDIX .................................................................................. 117
dBm Conversion Table ..........................................................................................117
The relationship between dB and dBc ...................................................................118
Resistor Values in π-type Resistance Attenuators ..................................................119
Resistor Values in T-type Resistance Attenuators ..................................................120
Modulation Index and Sideband Amplitude Comparison Table .............................121
Declaration of Conformity.....................................................................................122
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