Agilent / HP / Keysight 4396A

The Agilent/HP 4396A provides excellent RF vector network, spectrum and optional impedance measurements for lab and production applications. Gain, phase, group delay, distortion, spurious, CN, and noise measurements often required for evaluating components and circuits can be measured using one instrument.

The 4396A when combined with a test set, it provides reflection measurements, such as return loss, and SWR and S parameters.

As a vector network analyzer, the Agilent 4396A operates from 100 kHz to 1.8 GHz with 1 mHz resolution and its integrated synthesized source provides -60 to +20 dBm of output power with 0.1 dB resolution.

As a spectrum analyzer, the Agilent 4396A operates from 2 Hz to 1.8 GHz with resolution bandwidth spanning 1 Hz to 3 MHz in a 1-3-10 sequence.

The Agilent 4396A features a stepped Fast Fourier Transform(FFT) digital-signal-processing technique for 20 to 100 times faster narrow band spectrum measurement that swept-tuned spectrum analyzers.

A full featured impedance measurement function can be added to the Agilent 4396A by adding Option 010 and the Agilent 43961A RF impedance test kit covering from 100 kHz to 1.8 GHz, impedance parameters and more are directly measured and displayed on the CRT.

The Agilent 4396A with option 1D6, offers time gated spectrum analysis capability to capture and measure repetitive burst signals in video, disk drives, communication equipment and more.

The dynamic magnitude and phase accuracy are ±0.05 dB and ±0.3 deg so that it can accurately measure gain and group delay flatness, which are becoming more important in modern electronic systems.