New suite of software tools transfers results from Agilent test-and-measurement equipment to VPI's simulation software
February 25, 2004
LOS ANGELES and HOLMDEL, N.J. -- VPIsystems, the leading developer of photonic design automation software, today launched a suite of software tools that merge real and virtual photonic component and system prototypes. The tools transfer results from Agilent test and measurement equipment to VPI's award-winning simulation software to accurately characterize all of the equipment along the transmission link.
The new software suite follows 12 months of development effort and positive customer feedback from the first joint tool release, which transferred measurements from the Agilent 81910A to VPItransmissionMaker to investigate the system performance of a new commercial dispersion compensator. On the basis of this success, VPI is introducing additional tools that establish similar interfaces to the Agilent 86146B-DPC Time Resolved Chirp Analyzer, the 86038A Optical Dispersion Analyzer and the 83453A High Resolution Spectrometer.
According to VPI Group Technology Officer Arthur Lowery, the Time Resolved Chirp tool quantifies time variations for the intensity and frequency of a transmitter, while the Optical Dispersion Analyzer captures dispersion and loss of any optical component including fibers. “Once transferred to VPItransmissionMaker, these results can be used to accurately characterize all of the equipment along the transmission link - transmitters, multiplexers, EDFAs, DCMs, filters and fibers – for complete system performance.”
VPIsystems Inc.
Agilent Technologies Inc.
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