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A pulsed radar is a sensing system that uses a high power pulsed signal reflected off of objects to determine their distance from the radar antenna. The basic operation of a pulse radar is that a pulse modulator generates a short pulsed which is then amplified. The amplified pulse then passes through a duplexer or ..

There has been an increasing use of RF coaxial connectors, especially microwave and millimeter-wave coaxial connectors, for high-speed digital and precision sensing applications, There are also a growing trend toward highly compact and interconnect dense microwave and millimeter-wave systems, such as multi-input multi-output (MIMO) antennas for 5G and actively electronically scanned array (AESA) radar antennas. ..

Waveguide amplifiers, or full-band/multi-band waveguide amplifiers, are amplifiers housed in assemblies that have either waveguide or coaxial interconnect. Though waveguide interconnect is more common for waveguide amplifiers, some waveguide amplifiers have coaxial interconnect instead, but still perform as specified over a given waveguide frequency band. The main feature of waveguide amplifiers is that they are ..

Skew-matched coaxial cable assemblies are an emerging solution that leverages coaxial cable technology for high-speed digital signal applications. These applications require precision timing between the high-speed protocol transmitter and receiver circuits, such as SERDES, USB 3.1, Ethernet, and PCIe. Rigorous testing is often needed to troubleshoot signal integrity issues in the channel, such as jitter, ..