The diagram is generated by overlaying multiple traces of a signal on an oscilloscope, creating a composite image that reveals the signal's characteristics, such as amplitude, timing, and noise. It is vividly named so because its shape resembles an open eye. To generate an eye diagram, an oscilloscope needs to measure a large volume of data and then recover the diagram from the measured. In this article, we'll take a closer look at how eye diagrams work, what they reveal, and how they support performance in optical connectors. It then describes different ways that information from an eye diagram can be sliced to gain more insight. Eye height is the vertical distance between the upper and lower boundaries of.
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