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Revision as of 03:10, 6 December 2014
Template:Plugin Sidebar 2 The Tektronix S-4 is a sampling head for 7000- and 3S-series samplers. It was designed by George Frye and introduced in 1968. It is the fastest of the S-series plug-in samplers. (An interesting comparison of different sampling heads is found in "AN-3042a, Revision 1, 2/89".)
Key Specifications
| Rise time | 25 ps (observed with S-50 or S-52, 35 ps) |
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| Bandwidth | 14.5 GHz |
| Input impedance | 50 Ω (terminated SMA port) |
| Input range | operating, 1 Vp-p; max. safe overload, ±5 V |
| Noise | < 5 mV |
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Internals
The S-4 sampling gate is based upon a traveling wave trapped-charge transmission line in which the sampling window is set by the propagation time of a pulse edge through a thick-film transmission line. This technique requires only a sharp pulse edge rather than a precise pulse width, which is harder to generate. The sampling diodes are housed in a special coaxial connector that provides a high bandwidth signal path.
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Pictures
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Top view of the S4 plug-in
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Left view
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Right view
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Schematic
