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Agilent Choosing the Right Power Meter and Sensor Product Note Design and manufacturing of now demand power-measuring engineering processes for RF/ instruments and sensors for average microwave systems have reached a power, as well as time-gated and peak status undreamed of a decade ago. power profiles and peak-to-average Wireless communication engineers ratios, with all those measurements especially, faced with aggressive delivered at high measurement-data project schedules, must quickly select rates. and configure power-measurement equipment that provides the accuracy The Agilent Technologies' and repeatability required by their contribution: unsurpassed accuracy innovative new modulation formats. and repeatability--by design. New wireless technologies needed to support wideband data transmissions In general, power sensors are Technologies. It includes Agilent's new almost exclusively for the designed to match user signals and power meters and family of peak and standardization and traceability of modulation types. Power meters are average sensors, designed for pulsed power measurements from the U.S. designed to match the user's power and the complex modulation National Institute of Standards and measurement data requirements. signals of wireless communications Technology and other international That's why you can choose from a markets. It also reviews the families standards agencies. Because the versatile line of 33 different power of thermocouple, diode, and two- Agilent 432A power meter and sensors and six power meters from path diode-attenuator-diode sensors. thermistor sensor technology is based Agilent Technologies, as shown in It discusses the advantages and on the highly precise DC-substitution Table 1. In addition, Agilent offers disadvantages of each sensor method, the sensors are used as many custom configurations for ATE technology as they apply to current transfer standards, traveling between system applications and other and near-future wireless system the user's primary lab and the NIST calibration, traceability, and quality advances. measurement services laboratory. processes. Users interested in such metrology Not discussed is the Agilent family of power-transfer processes may request This product note outlines applications thermistor sensors and the associated Agilent's AN 64-1 and 64-4 application considerations and the newest sensor Agilent 432A power meter. This notes. technologies available