Anritsu MP2110A All-in-One Measurement Instrument with Built-in Bit Error Rate Tester (BERT) and Sampling Oscilloscope

The BERTWave MP2110A is an integrated measurement instrument that combines a bit error rate tester (BERT) with a sampling oscilloscope. It supports bit error rate (BER) measurements, eye diagram template testing, eye diagram analysis, and other evaluation operations for optical modules used in optical communication systems. A BERT and a sampling oscilloscope are required to evaluate optical modules used in optical communication systems.

Features: All-in-one instrument, 28.2Gb/s x 4 NRZ BER and 4-channel NRZ/PAM4 sampling oscilloscope with built-in clock recovery

Sampling Oscilloscope

Captures 1 million samples in about 4 seconds, with a sampling rate of up to 250,000 samples/sec.

Built-in high sensitivity O/E (-15 dBm, typical, SMF)

High bandwidth: 35 GHz (optical, SMF), 25 GHz (optical, MMF), 40 GHz (electrical)

Low jitter: 200 fs rms (typical); low noise: 3.4 µW (typical SMF)

Built-in Clock Recovery Unit (CRU) for NRZ and PAM4 support supports 5G to 28.9G/51G to 58G

NRZ jitter component analysis (option)

Interface type: one optical (single & multimode) & one electrical / one optical (single/multimode) / two optical (single & multimode) / four optical (single/multimode) / two electrical

Two-Wire Interface: Differential, 33GHz Filter, CTLE Equalisation, Cable De-Embedding

BERT

Low jitter PPG: 600 fs rms (typical)

High sensitivity ED: 25 mV (typical)

Application Areas:

Physical layer performance evaluation of 10G/25G/50G/100G/200G/400G/800G optical transmission modules, active optical cables and related components used in data centres, core networks, metro networks, 4G/5G mobile backhaul, and 5G mobile forward.

Products covered: Ethernet, eCPRI/RoE, CPRI, SDH/SONET, OTN, InfiniBand, Fibre Channel, SFP28, QSFP28, CFP2/4/8, SFP56, QSFP56, OSFP, QSFP-DD, AOC, DAC, TOSA, ROSA, High Speed Optical Engine, PHY, Driver Chips.

The BERTWave MP2110A is an all-in-one measurement instrument with a built-in Bit Error Rate Tester (BERT) and a sampling oscilloscope, which supports evaluation operations such as Bit Error Rate (BER) measurements, eye diagram template tests, and eye diagram analysis of optical modules.

The BERT and sampling oscilloscope are required to evaluate optical modules used in optical communication systems. The all-in-one BERTWave MP2110A with built-in 4-channel BERT and 4-channel sampling oscilloscope eliminates the need for a separate instrument, thus reducing instrument investment capital and production costs. Furthermore, the BERTWave MP2110A not only measures the BER of up to four channels simultaneously on the RX side of the optical module, but also performs eye diagram template testing and eye diagram analysis of up to four channels simultaneously on the Tx side. In addition, the MP2110A sampling oscilloscope's sampling rate of up to 250,000 samples/second enables faster eye diagram template testing and eye diagram analysis. With the BERTWave MP2110A, BER measurements and eye chart analysis can be performed at the same time, resulting in a significant reduction in measurement time.

The MP2110A BERT measures bit rates from 24.3 Gb/s to 28.2 Gb/s in its standard configuration, and from 9.5 Gb/s to 14.2 Gb/s with the Opt-093 installed. The built-in sampling oscilloscope supports bandwidths of 40 GHz (electrical interface), 35 GHz (SMF, optical interface), and 25 GHz (MMF, optical interface). In addition, the sampling oscilloscope comes standard with built-in Bessel filters for the 100 Gb/s band and optional 10GE (LAN & WAN) digital filters for measuring optical signals. The excellent performance helps to ensure higher throughput of optical modules. Simplified setup and user interface make the MP2110A easy to operate, and backward compatibility with the MP2100B's remote commands ensures hassle-free instrument upgrades.

In addition, the stable operation of the built-in PC ensures excellent performance in any operating environment. Equipped with multi-channel BERT, sampling oscilloscope, high-speed eye diagram analysis, and stencil margin measurement, the BERTWave MP2110A improves the production efficiency of optical modules and reduces production costs.

Multi-Channel Optical Module Evaluation

Required Test Items

Rx Electrical signal eye diagram analysis (NRZ: eye diagram template margin, jitter, Tr/Tf, etc.)

Tx optical signal eye diagram analysis (optical power, NRZ: eye diagram template margin, jitter, Tr/Tf, extinction ratio, PAM4: TDECQ, external OMA/extinction ratio, linearity, etc.)

Rx signal reception sensitivity test (BER measurement)

Required test items

Tx optical signal eye diagram analysis (optical power, NRZ: eye diagram template margin, jitter, Tr/Tf, extinction ratio, PAM4: TDECQ, external OMA/extinction ratio, linearity, etc.)

Rx signal reception sensitivity test (BER measurement)

Active Optical Cable (AOC)/Direct Attach Cable (DAC) Evaluation

Required test items

Simultaneous execution of BER measurements (crosstalk test) on 4 channels

Differential telecom signal eye diagram analysis

Differential electrical signal jitter analysis

NRZ/PAM4 Differential Electrical Signal Evaluation

Eye diagrams of differential electrical signals can be analysed using a differential telecommunication channel oscilloscope (option 021) and a signal processing option (option 098).

Standards-compliant bandpass filters and equalisers such as CTLE can be applied.

Measurement systems (e.g. cables) can be calibrated using the de-embedding function.

In addition, the installation of a clock recovery unit (CRU, Opt-054) dispenses with the need to provide a trigger signal.