100G Optical and Electrical Tx/Rx

Tektronix provides comprehensive Tx & Rx testing support for 100G standards along with testing guidance for both NRZ and PAM4 signaling as well as Complex Coherent Modulation formats. Tektronix Test Instrumentation will get your team ready to tackle the next wave of datacom technologies.

DPO70000SX Series Real Time Oscilloscopes offer the ability to efficiently prove-out your technology advances and rapidly de-bug and validate 100G electrical technology standards. Clarify your 100G design's performance with an industry-low noise floor and high sample rate.
NEW! With the DPO7OE1 Optical Probe for the MSO/DPO70000 scopes you can easily troubleshoot your optical devices by adding powerful debug capabilities: software clock recovery for PAM4 and NRZ, triggering, error detection, and capture time correlated or contiguous acquisition of a signal.

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Semtech Turns to Tektronix DSA8300 Sampling Scope to Characterize New 25-28 Gb/s CDR Devices This customer case study illustrates the benefits that Tektronix DataCom test solutions deliver to characterize electrical performance of 100G technologies with the industry’s lowest intrinsic noise …
Clock Recovery Primer, Part 1 Figure 1. If clock and data were to move in time by the same amount at the same time, a decision circuit could remove the effect of jitter …
Characterizing an SFP+ Transceiver at the 16G Fibre Channel Rate Figure 1. An example Fibre Channel topology. Abstract The Fibre Channel standard is evolving to include the next generation "16G" …
Overcoming SNDR Measurement Challenges in 100G, 400G Datacom Testing With important changes occurring in transmitter characterization and measurement methods for 100G and 400G standards (both IEEE and OIF-CEI) it is vital to learn more about SNDR and its advantages …
Extinction Ratio (ER) Calibrated White Paper This white paper explains some of the benefits of highly accurate ER measurements in both 10 GbE (Ethernet), with its relatively low ER requirement, and in SONET/ SDH , and the methodology that …
32 Gbit/s QPSK Transmission at 385 GHz Learn more about a world record breaking wireless system capable of transmitting data at 400 GHz (0.4 THz) using advanced signal coding (up to QAM-16) and key advanced THz devices in this whitepaper …
Optical Bandwidth Requirements for NRZ and PAM4 Signaling There is confusion about Optical Bandwidth and Electrical Bandwidth of optical channels and how these terms relate to Optical Reference Receivers (ORRs). PAM4 signaling has further …
Ultralow drive voltage silicon traveling-wave modulator Paper (Optical Society of America) Silicon platforms are emerging as a commercial platform for integrated photonics. To integrate directly with on-chip electronics, drive voltages at or below 1 Vpp are desirable.In this paper from the …
Physical Layer Tests of 100 Gb/s Communications Systems In this application note, learn how to prepare for compliance measurements on 100G standards including IEEE802.3ba/bj/bm and the tests for optical, electrical, or PAM4 transmitters and receivers that …
Practices for Measurements on 25 Gb/s Signaling This application note describes the measurement practices for the characterization and compliance test of the transmitter and receiver for 25+ Gb/s signaling in 100 G systems. Focus is on oscilloscope …
Coherent Optical Signal Generation with High-Performance AWG Learn how instrument characteristics and performance level of the AWG70000 influence the ability to generate different modulation schemes and the way the instrument’s flexibility can be used to …
Bridging the Gap Between BER and Eye Diagrams — A BER Contour Tutorial Abstract This paper provides an introduction to the BER Contour measurement - what it is, how it is constructed, and why it is a valuable way of viewing parametric performance at …
PAM4 Signaling in High Speed Serial Technology: Test, Analysis, and Debug Learn valuable information on testing PAM4 technology and approaches for validating PAM4 signals. This application note describes: PAM4 technology for 50-400G applications Provides details of PAM4 …
100G/400G Datacom Transmitter Measurements: Determining Proper Measurement Tools for 100G/400G Datacom Testing This application note walks through a number of common misconceptions and key considerations to help you select the proper scope technology (RTO vs. ETO) for your needs.

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Webinar: High Volume Optical Transceiver Validation Learn about the current challenges in testing optical transceivers in a high volume manufacturing setting, and see a demonstration of a transceiver test system for PAM4 characterization using the …
Webinar: PAM4 Optical Transceiver Characterization Watch as we discuss PAM4 optical transceivers, both 100G and 400G, including the latest on standards, testing, and characterization. We cover high throughput NRZ measurement and margin and compare …
PAM4 Electrical Webinar The accelerated development of 400G Ethernet technology is driving new requirements through the test community as it relates to measuring electrical PAM4 systems. This presentation will review PAM4 …
New Technologies for Probing Low Power Circuits Webinar As designs for mobile devices and computers use lower power circuits in their design, validation testing and debug become more challenging. Board and component density increase leaving little space …
NBASET and IEEE8023bz Technology and Measurements The rapid growth of ever-more powerful mobile devices, and the adoption of new wireless technologies such as 802.11ac, has enterprise networks struggling to keep pace. To meet these rising bandwidth …
Characterizing Coherent Optical Systems Webinar Learn about the coherent modulation being considered for 400G networks, the key building blocks of a coherent test system, how to optimize measurement accuracy and the benefits of customizable …