News | January 12, 2009

CAP Wireless Announces Ultra-Broadband, Solid-State Power Amplifier

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CAP Wireless, Inc. (CAP), a leading supplier of high performance microwave and RF amplifiers and amplifier-based subsystems, recently announced the CHPA0618-1-G45 ultra-broadband spatially combined power amplifier, which provides 40 watts of typical saturated power across ultra-broad six to 18 GHz bandwidth. The ability to achieve these unprecedented solid-state power levels across an extended frequency range is enabled by CAP's revolutionary, patented

Spatium broadband spatial combining technology. The Spatium multiple element architecture, whichprovides protection from single point failures and facilitates even, dispersive, three-dimensional (3D) heat dissipation, makes the CHPA0618-1-G45 a compact, affordable, reliable, solid state alternative to traveling wave tube amplifiers (TWTAs). The device uniquely meets the demanding specifications of applications such as electronic counter measures (ECM), laboratory instrumentation, and electromagnetic compatibility/electromagnetic interference (EMC/EMI) test, as well as narrower band applications like radar, microwave imaging, and satellite communications.

  • CHPA0618-1-G45 Key Features:

  • Ultra-broad 5.85—18.4 GHz bandwidth
  • 40 watts typical saturated power
  • ?Exceptional reliability and mean time between failure (MTBF)
  • Graceful degradation (soft-fail) in the event of device failure
  • Low voltage primary power
  • Low intermodulation and harmonic distortion
  • Flat gain without equalization
  • Low noise figure
  • Low phase noise and spurious
  • Infinite load voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR) without damage
  • No warm-up or turn-on delay

    • About Spatium
    CAP Wireless ultra-broadband Spatium power amplifiers obsolete today's power amplifiers and make the unachievable a reality. Spatium amplifiers excel when extremes of bandwidth and power are demanded.

    The revolutionary, patented ((#7215220) Spatium technology incorporates a coaxial antipodal finline structure within a proprietary, inherently low-loss spatial combining architecture to achieve solid state reliability and stability with outstanding power levels across exceptionally broad bandwidth. Spatium power amplifiers do more with less—more bandwidth, more power, more fidelity—in less space with less noise at a lower cost. This breakthrough technology leverages commercially available devices and technologies, and it is a simple process to change the design for different applications without having to change the entire structure, eliminating traditional time-consuming redesigns for variations and enabling significant time-to-manufacture cost-savings.

    About CAP Wireless
    CAP Wireless develops and manufactures a broad range of RF and microwave amplification products and related subsystems for homeland security, defense electronics, and commercial microwave markets. The company's Spatium™ product line provides extremely broad bandwidth, high-power, solid state amplifiers for applications such as electronic warfare (EW) systems, radar and communication systems, laboratory instrumentation, and electromagnetic compatibility and interference testing. Applications currently in development include high-power and low noise amplifiers for radar, microwave imaging, and satellite and terrestrial communications systems. CAP Wireless, Inc. is a privately held corporation headquartered in Newbury Park, CA. For more information about CAP Wireless and its products, please visit www.capwireless.com.

    SOURCE: CAP Wireless