Use of a digital oscilloscope as a spectrum analyzer in the undergraduate laboratory

American Journal of Physics

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 254-255

  Masters, M F ^a   Miers, R E ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031477347     PISSN: 00029505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1119/1.18748     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. A Tektronix model TDS320 100-MHz, 500-Msps oscilloscope can be purchased with educational discount for approximately $2500.00. This includes interfaces and software. The TDS320 is capable of performing Fourier transforms.
2. A GPIB can be purchased from National Instruments for around $500.00.
3. T. D. Nichols, D. C. Harrison, and S. S. Alpert, "Simple laboratory demonstration of the Doppler shift of laser light," Am. J. Phys. 53, 657-660 (1985).
4. Tektronix lists a "low-cost" spectrum analyzer, model 2711 at a base cost of $8700.00.