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The conformance test specification for 100 Gb/s transmission speed class is defined in
the IEEE 802.3 standard, clause 88 for 100 Gb/s Ethernet long reach (LR4) and extended
reach (ER4) and clause 95 for 100 Gb/s Ethernet short reach (SR4). Several Multi-
Source Agreements (MSAs) leverage on the IEEE test procedures to define interface
specifications for particular applications.
The N4917B optical receiver stress test solution provides an automated stressed
receiver sensitivity test in accordance with the 100GBASE-LR4, ER4 and SR4 and CLR4,
CWDM4 and 4WDM MSAs test specifications. In order to do this kind of test, several
test instruments such as a bit error ratio tester, digital sampling oscilloscope, optical
reference transmitter and tunable laser source are required to operate together to
achieve a compliant, repeatable optical stressed eye. This stressed eye is then fed to
the receiver under test, where bit error ratio is measured under the stress conditions as
defined in the standard.
Setting up a stressed eye according to the standard can be a very time consuming task, even
for experienced users it can take a half day. The reason is that the stressed eye parameters
are interdependent and therefore several iterations of the optimization cycle are required
to converge on the solution. In addition, it is important that the setup is repeatable and
remains stable from the time of the stressed eye calibration through to the end of the DUT
measurement. Otherwise a drift in the test setup, especially in the electro-optical converter will
impair the test results.
The N4917B optical receiver stress test solution provides a repeatable and stable measurement
in a fraction of time compared to manual setup of the stressed eye. This offers major time
saving during daily measurements and speeds up developing a standard compliant test solution
when compared to a self made solution.
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Ao OMA
J2 Jitter
VECP = 10 log10 OMA
Ao
J4 Jitter
J9 Jitter
BER measurement during the Jitter Tolereance test sweep can either be read from the device
under test or optionally looped back to the BERT for fully automated JTOL testing.
Data
TX 1 Generator 0
Data
TX 2
Optical Mux
4-lane WDM SMF Generator 1
TX 3 Data
Generator 2
Electrical loopback
TX 4 Data
Generator 3
λ3 Optical λ3
Attenuator Error
RX 1 Checker 3
λ2 λ2
Optical DeMultiplexer
Optical Multiplexer
Optical Error
Optical DeMux
Attenuator RX 2 Checker 2
4-lane WDM
λ1 λ1 SMF
Optical Error
RX 3
Attenuator Checker 1
λ0 λ0 Error
Optical RX 4
Checker 0
Attenuator
DUT 100GBASE-LR4 Transceiver
Figure 7. Example 100GBASE-LR4 setup for running a stressed receiver sensitivity test on a device.
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BER measurement during the Jitter Tolereance test sweep can either be read from the device
under test or optionally looped back to the BERT for fully automated JTOL testing.
Data
TX 1 Generator
0
Data
TX 2 Generator
01
Data
TX 3 Generator
2
Electrical loopback
Data
TX 4 Generator
3
4x MM fiber
Optical RX 4
Error
Attenuator Checker 3
Optical RX 3
Error
Checker 2
Attenuator
Optical RX 2
Error
Checker 1
Attenuator
Optical Error
4xAttenuator
MM fiber RX 1 Checker 0
DUT 100GBASE-SR4
- Transceiver
Example 100GBASE-SR4 setup for running a stressed receiver sensitivity test on a device
Figure 8. Example 100GBASE-SR4 setup for running a stressed receiver sensitivity test on a device
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The main screen of the N4917B software, the Stressed Eye tab, provides setting of the
paramaters required for the calibration of the stressed eye, runs the stressed eye calibration
and displays the results for the calibrated stressed eye components.
The two remaining tabs — Jitter Conformance and Jitter Performance are used when testing
the device for compliance or margin testing.
Figure 9. shows the stressed eye screen for 100GBASE-LR4 to setup the desired calibration parameters: extintion ratio,
vertical eye closure penalty, J2 and J9 jitter. In addition, various other parameters can be modified for individual setups.
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The N4917B software provides two jitter measurements. The Jitter conformance tests per the
compliance level in the standard and the optional user selectable margin can be applied to test
at a slightly higher level than the standard requires. The Jitter Performance test allows the user
to find the limits of the jitter tolerance test for more detailed margin testing.
Results of the jitter measurements are shown numerically and graphically. In example below,
the blue line on the plot is the jitter tolerance compliance limit from the IEEE 802.3 standard.
The green dots represent actual test data, at the user selectable margin. The yellow line
indicates the maximum margin limits of the jitter tolerance test.
In these tests the stress level is automatically setup by the N4917B software, using a previously
run calibration and the user enters the BER results manually. This test is most approriate when
the BER can be visually read from the DUT user interface.
The M8070A JTOL measurement can also be run as a compliance test with/without margin or a
tolerance test to find the limits of the DUT. It has several additional features such as a choice of
search algorithm, user definable BER depth, etc.
Figure 11. Jitter tolerance measurement result screen within M8070A system software.
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N4917B Features
The N4917B software creates a stressed eye optical waveform from the following setting parameters.
Setup files contain recommended values for each lane of of the supported 100G standards.
Additionally the user can adjust the parameter values if required prior to a calibration.
Settable parameters
–– Data Amplitude (mV pp) *
–– Sinusoidal Interferer Amplitude (mV pp) *
–– Sinusoidal Interferer Frequency (MHz)
–– Periodic Jitter 1 Amplitude (UI)
–– Periodic Jitter 1 Frequency (MHz)
–– Periodic Jitter 2 Amplitude (UI) *
–– Periodic Jitter 2 Frequency (MHz)
–– Random Jitter Amplitude (mUI) *
–– Bit Rate (Gb/s)
–– Optical Power for calibration (dBm)
–– OMA for DUT test (dBm)
–– Optical Wavelength (nm)
–– De-emphasis cursors (dB)
–– ISI (dB/GHz) *
* These values will be adjusted by the software during the calibration process to meet the calibration parameter targets
N4917B Requirements
N4917B software runs on an external PC
PC HW Requirements
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 (64 bit)
Memory: 8 GB RAM minimum
Monitor Resolution: WXGA+ (1440 x 900) minimum
PC Installed SW Requirements
Keysight IO Libraries Suite rev. 17.2.x or later
M8070A System Software for M8000 Series version 4.5.70.2 or later
N1010A FlexDCA Remote Access System A.05.71.22 or later (if using DCA-M)
PC Interfaces
USB, LAN
Configuration Guide
The N4917B optical stress test solution is built up from a variety of instruments. For some of
the instruments, alternative selections are supported by the N4917B software. Each instrument
is an individual order and not part of a bundle. This configuration guide is designed to help you
determine which instruments you may already have, and which instruments will need to be
ordered to make up a complete optical stressed eye test solution.
1) Select the configuration for the J-BERT M8020A and sinusoidal interference generator
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