CAP Wireless High-Power Instrumentation Amplifier With Improved Spurious Response

Newbury Park, CA -- CAP Wireless, Inc. recently announced a new version of its RM022020 power amplifier (PA) with enhanced performance that provides both excellent pulse fidelity and improved spurious response (typically --85dBc). The RM022020, which was introduced in the fall of 2007, is the first in a series of high-power instrumentation amplifiers based on the company's patented Spatium broadband spatial combining technology.

Developed specifically for test environments that demand extreme bandwidth without switching or reconnecting amplifiers, this solid-state amplifier provides 20 watts nominal saturated output power over an instantaneous band of two to 20 GHz. It offers superior intermodulation distortion (IMD) performance, linearity, and gain flatness, without the warm-up, drift, or aging issues associated with traveling wave tube amplifiers (TWTAs).

The RM022020 comes in a compact rack-mount package and provides 45 dB gain (variable over 10 dB), enabling it to be driven with standard lab signal sources. It features excellent pulse fidelity, low noise figure (<8dB) and, with safe operation into 10:1 voltage standing wave radio (VSWR), is highly load tolerant. Designed for general lab use, the unit saves time and increases productivity by eliminating additional calibrations, reconfigurations, and errors associated with connecting or switching multiple amplifiers.

SOURCE: CAP Wireless, Inc.