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Couplers Climb To 40 GHz

March 18, 2010

A pair of high-performance directional couplers from Pulsar Microwave offers frequency coverage to 40 GHz with low loss and high directivity. Model CS20-52-436-9 is a 20-dB coupler that operates from 2 to 40 GHz with 1.6 dB insertion loss and more than 10 dB directivity. It maintains amplitude flatness of 0.5 dB through 20 GHz and 1.0 dB through 40 GHz. Rated for 20 W maximum power into a 1.20:1 VSWR load, the maximum VSWR is 1.80:1. Model CS20-53-436-13 is a 20-dB coupler with even wider frequency coverage of 1 to 40 GHz. It has insertion loss of 1.6 dB with directivity of better than 10 dB. The amplitude flatness is 0.6 dB through 20 GHz and 1.5 dB through 40 GHz. It can handle 20 W input power into a 1.20:1 VSWR load. Both couplers are supplied with female 2.92-mm connectors.

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Jack Browne, Technical Contributor, has worked in technical publishing for over 30 years. He managed the content and production of three technical journals while at the American Institute of Physics, including Medical Physics and the Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology. He has been a Publisher and Editor for Penton Media, started the firm’s Wireless Symposium & Exhibition trade show in 1993, and currently serves as Technical Contributor for that company's Microwaves & RF magazine. Browne, who holds a BS in Mathematics from City College of New York and BA degrees in English and Philosophy from Fordham University, is a member of the IEEE.