New E-Band WR12 Waveguide Passive Components

Smiths Interconnect announced today that it is extending its broad range of passive components in E-band with the addition of WR12 coupler, loads and isolators.

The comprehensive range of broadband WR12 waveguide passive components have been designed for next generation E-Band terrestrial uplinks to LEO constellations and payloads. Each application has specific environmental demands, and the family of products has been optimised to manage the particularly high RF powers required to sustain a robust communications link.

Tullio Panarello, VP and General Manager of the Fibre Optics and RF Components Business Unit at Smiths Interconnect, said: “Smiths Interconnect’s proven expertise in waveguide passive component design has resulted in a product series ideal for high reliability applications such as those for prestigious space missions With a full in-house design, manufacturing, and testing capability, we work with our customers to ensure that our products meet a specific set of requirements and are rigorously tested and qualified.”

Smiths Interconnect’s E-band WR12 waveguide hybrids offer the following features:

• Tuneless and broadband, suitable for global applications.
• Suitable for signal splitting and combining applications and readily configurable with a selection of high-power termination appropriate to the incident power.
• Operating over the allocated band (71-76 and 81-86 GHz.)
• Temperature stable under exacting thermal loads.
• Clear chromate conversion coated.

Smiths Interconnect’s WR12 E-band isolator utilises a novel design approach selected to be able to handle high levels of forward and reflected RF power and offers:

• Excellent isolation across the 71-76 and 81-86 GHz bands.
• Temperature stable under exacting thermal loads.
• Clear chromate conversion coated.