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RF Component & Device Test Series: RF Power Amplifier Testing
Power Amplifiers (PAs) are essential components in most RF, microwave, and millimeter-wave sensing, communications, electronic warfare (EW), and directed energy weapons. PAs are used within a signal chain to add significant gain to the signal, typically within the transmit signal chain near the RF antenna. Many applications require extreme signal power levels at the antenna ports to reach the...
RF Component & Device Test Series: RF Switch Testing
RF switches are prevalent in many RF systems for a variety of uses. Switches are commonly used to switch between a receive or transmit channel at the port of an antenna, switch between filter channels, or used in matrices to switch test channels for high throughput automated testing or to extend the port count of a vector network analyzer. We offer several popular types of RF switches including...