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Rubidium Oscillators – The Heart of RF/Microwave Applications

Looking for a standard, dependable time standard device for time distribution services such as telecommunication infrastructure, radio, television broadcast, aerospace, defense applications and systems, and global navigation satellite systems?

Modern rubidium oscillators from Raditek are designed to produce exact frequency pulses at the necessary intensity.

Rubidium oscillators, from Raditek, are further improvised oven-controlled crystal oscillators (OCXOs), the output of which is tethered to an inbuilt rubidium “physics circuit,” which is known to provide consistent, accurate oscillation at calibrated amplitude.

Normal oscillators are susceptible to weak amplitude and frequency drifts due to environmental factors, which is a death knell for all sensitive communication-related systems and applications, including GPS, LTE, TV broadcast, telecommunications infrastructure, and other time distribution services that rely solely on precise, high-intensity signals for reliable output.

As a result, industry prefers using Raditek’s rubidium oscillators, which are engineered to provide consistent, accurate frequency pulses at the required amplitude @ hyperfine transition of 6834682610.904 Hz.

We offer two types of rubidium oscillators: 1) a precision rubidium oscillator used for synchronization work in tele-networks and measurement devices and 2) a low-phase-noise oscillator used in CDMA, WiMAX, and LTE base stations on account of its smaller dimensions.

Raditek rubidium oscillators are accurate, affordable, long-lasting, and suited to temperatures ranging from minus 30 to plus 60 degrees.

Full details can be found here and the Raditek website.

High Power Combiner – That Combines Frequencies without Degradation

Raditek providers a number of high power combiners including models that can handle power levels up to 400 watts. Furthermore, these combiners are engineered for different operating frequencies and are available in 2-way to 32-way way configurations, with different connector types and such as SMA and N-type.

Raditek also offer models such as R2SC-20-600M-7676-200W-di-v, which are specifically designed for high power levels such as 200 watts.

Raditek high power combiners are suitably designed for high-power RF and microwave systems. Combiners from Raditek are the most preferred component in radar systems, communication equipment, directed energy, electronic warfare systems, air traffic control applications, and research facilities like particle accelerators.

Raditek power combiners preserve the impedance the individual input signals that are combined as per the circuit designs. Moreover, it reputed to provide low loss, calibrated amplitude, phase balance and a high power handling cubage or capacity.

Our different power combiner models such as 2/4/8 and 16-way are engineered to handle the frequency range from 100 kHz to 40 GHz and more.

Raditek also offers to customize narrow, multi-octave and waveguide high power combiners tailored to the circuit-specification of the client(s).

With a high frequency mismatch and thermal tolerance range of 40°C to +85°C, Raditek high power combiners provides for high caliber functioning of systems/applications/ and equipment.

Full details can be found at our combiners page and the Raditek website.

Raditek’s GaAs and GaN transistor Based Microwave Amplifiers

Raditek microwave amplifiers are cutting-edge devices designed to increase the intensity or amplitude of electromagnetic wave frequency signals ranging from 1 MHz to 96 GHz and handle a power range of milliwatts to 15 kilowatts based on the model and the width of the frequency band.

Raditek’s engineered perfection, skillfully built circuitry, and finely tuned microwave amplifiers are the preferred option of all trusted manufacturers of high-tech electronic systems and applications such as cellular base stations, broadcast transmitters, point-to-point microwave radio systems, and satellite ground stations.

Our microwave amplifiers, especially in the frequency range of 1 to 100 GHz, are extensively used in electromagnetic compatibility systems (EMC), electromagnetic interference (EMI), defense systems, medical and diagnostic systems, laboratories, field testing appliances, and point-to-point microwave links.

Raditek’s GaAs FETs and GaN HEMTs-based microwave amplifiers are smaller in dimension and lightweight, a feature that suits the modern-day circuit topography of many sensitive and critical electronic systems, including CATV, medical, and industrial applications.

Moreover, Raditek provides microwave amplifiers of various types, including gyrotron, klystron, and amplitron—also known as crossed-field amplifier (CFA) or platinotron—and others that we offer to customize.

Raditek’s benchmark microwave amplifiers are known for their superior quality, durability, and functionality, all at a compelling price.

Full details can be found at our amplifiers webpage and the Raditek website.

RF Amplifiers – The Mainstay of Wireless and Satellite Communication Systems

Raditek provides cutting-edge amplifiers RF (also known as RF amplifiers), essential for boosting weak RF signals acquired by their antennas to a specified acceptable level in a variety of wireless communication systems, broadcasting, and radar applications.

These state-of-the-art RF amplifiers from Raditek strengthen the sensitivity and thereby the output of the transmitter set.

We offer benchmark-quality amplifiers RF in the range of 20 kHz to 300 GHz. Amplifiers RF that Raditek provides are designed to reduce transmission noise levels and boost its drive capability.

The superior radio frequency amplifiers that we offer are made using the latest in transistor technology, such as 1) Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) transistors, which offer the best linearity, and 2) Gallium Nitrate (GaN) transistors and 3) MOSFETs which accord the best efficiency to the system.

As a result, in contrast to other amplifiers, our RF amplifiers are solid-state devices that are made to provide the best noise reduction, high gain, constant power, stability, and linearity to the input signals. These functional characteristics are designed to unite in an engineered precision to produce calibrated output results in an RF amplifier.

Therefore, Raditek’s amplifiers RF are favored over competitors for use in communication systems such as television broadcasting, radar systems, military equipment, remote monitoring devices, high-fidelity appliances, computers, and many other applications.

Full details can be found at our amplifiers webpage and the Raditek website.

RF isolators are non-reciprocal two-port devices. How RF isolators attenuate?

Electronic devices known as drop-in isolators are used in microwave and radio frequency circuits to improve overall system performance by allowing frequency signals to flow in a single direction and attenuating signals flowing in the reverse direction that may cause electromagnetic interference in the circuitry systems.

Raditek produces cutting-edge drop-in isolators that are designed to protect sensitive RF and microwave components in amplifiers from damage caused by reflected signals and electromagnetic radiation, which can cause instability, distortion, and failure of the circuitry in which they are embedded.

Therefore, wireless communication systems and other related system/application industries depend on Raditek drop in isolators to provide consistent signal integrity.

Our drop in isolators is designed for simple integration onto a PCB or other circuit board. Raditek drop-in isolator designs are compatible with assorted and standard circuit boards, as they are based on microstrip or stripline technology.

Raditek provides a range of drop-in isolators, including standard drop-ins, microstrip and stripline-based models, and bespoke versions for certain frequency bandwidths and power levels.

Drop-in isolators from Raditek are popular options because of their sturdiness, compatibility with different frequency bands and power ranges, and thermal tolerance.

Therefore, our drop in isolators is the primary choice in wireless communication, defense industries, cellular communications, satellite communications, and radar systems.

Full details can be found at our amplifiers webpage and the Raditek website.

Waveguide Limiter – The Protector of Electronic Circuitry

High power waveguide limiters are devices that safeguard sensitive downstream components of microwave and RF circuits, such as amplifiers and mixers, from damage caused by excessive power levels.

Raditek offers state-of-the-art high power waveguide limiters that act as safety mechanisms protecting hypersensitive components of a circuit and are known to maintain low insertion loss and faster switching speeds.

Raditek power waveguides are configured to deal with both high transmission power and low-powered signals. Their durability and functional integrity make them the most preferred waveguide limiter for diverse applications.

Raditek relies on state-of-the-art production processes that meet strict mechanical, electrical, and environmental standards, enabling our state-of-the-art high power waveguide limiters to function dependably even in the most demanding circumstances.

Raditek high power waveguide limiters are hence the “go-to” device for sensitive and complex communications industries like commercial audiovisual applications, broadcasting, and the aviation sector.

In applications like radar and EW systems, Raditek high power waveguide limiters shield delicate microwave components—in particular, low-noise amplifiers (LNAs)—from high-power signals.

The characteristics that set them apart from their competitors are their low limiting thresholds, low leakage levels, and ability to manage high peak outputs up to 2 megawatts across a range of waveguide sizes with a frequency range of 2.6 to 36 GHz.

All of this and more, at a compelling price.

Full details can be found at our Limiters webpage and the Raditek website.

Rubidium Oscillator – A Faucet of Precise Frequencies

Rubidium oscillators from Raditek are atomic clocks that are recognized to deliver the best frequency accuracy and stability for long and even short timescales, as well as being significantly more resilient and durable than all other types of oscillators.

Raditek’s rubidium oscillators are therefore highly favored for applications needing precise timing, including GPS systems, commercial and military wireless and radar systems, TV broadcasting, and telecommunications infrastructure.

Rubidium oscillators that we provide are also preferentially used in DTH broadcast systems and commercial airborne systems like radars and missile systems and the like.

Our Rb oscillators are designed to access a rubidium hyperfine transition frequency of 6,834,682,610.904 Hz, the most precise resonance, to maintain a steady and consistent frequency output.

Raditek’s cutting-edge rubidium oscillators are seasoned to give stable and accurate frequency pulses over temperatures ranging from -30°C to +60°C.

Furthermore, rubidium oscillators from Raditek offer better signal integrity and zero-degree co-channel interference, low SNR, and a low aging rate of IE-9 over a ten-year timescale.

We offer over 20 different varieties of rubidium oscillators, of which precision and low-phase-noise rubidium oscillators are the most widely used category.

Raditek’s rubidium oscillators, which are housed in robust casings, have a lifespan of more than 100,000 hours.

Furthermore, Raditek’s rubidium oscillators are known for their dependability and affordable prices.

Full details can be found at the Raditek’s Frequency Standards – Rubidium Oscillators, Cesium Frequency Standards web page or at our website.

Band Pass Filter Bandwidth Patrol Device

Raditek provides a cutting-edge band pass filter (BPF), including the Cavity, Waveguide, SAW and ceramic BPFs. We provide state-of-the-art cavity and diplexer filters too. All of these get preference over their competing products for usage in radio communication, power supplies, and audio electronics.

We offer ceramic filters for frequencies Under 1GHz up to 6GHz, SAW filters for 200 MHz to 1 GHz, for a broad range of frequencies from a few GHz to tens of GHz, with a few more designs to handle 15 GHz.

Raditek band pass filter is engineered to allow only a specified range of frequencies to propagate into the system while blocking and attenuating signals outside of the calibrated range or band.

Raditek provides all types of band-pass filters, such as linear/non-linear, analogous/digital BPFs, active BPFs, and passive BPFs; all of these are used as per the system’s design and specifications.

While our passive band pass filter is the preferred component for applications that deal with very high frequencies, the active BPF is preferred for use in very low-frequency applications.

The Raditek Band pass filter is a preferred component for sensitive electronic infrastructure applications such as satellite and telecommunications seismology and meteorological data mining, LIDARS, EEGs, and audio signal processors.

Our latest band pass filter model is available at a compelling price.

Full details can be found at our Filters Webpage

Cavity Filters

Waveguide Filters

and the Raditek website.

Dependable Rubidium Oscillator

Rubidium oscillators are oven-controlled crystal oscillators (OCXOs) whose output is tethered to an inbuilt rubidium (atomic) clock, which is noted for its precise frequency (oscillations) output.

Due to the internal and external working environments, a standard OCXO is prone to triggering weak amplitude, resulting in incorrect frequency output.

Telecommunication infrastructure, TV broadcast systems, GPS systems, LTE systems, and other time distribution services, require only such oscillators which ensure the delivery of accurate frequency timing and with the required intensity.

Therefore, the output of oven-controlled crystal oscillators is harnessed to an inbuilt rubidium “physics circuit” which provides consistent accurate oscillation at calibrated amplitude.

Such OXCOs are called Rubidium oscillators. Rb oscillators discipline the OCXO to its hyperfine transition of 6834682610.904 Hz.

Furthermore, unlike typical OCXOs, rubidium oscillators have a high-temperature tolerance. It functions without any drifts/distortions in temperatures ranging from Minus 30 degrees to Plus 60 degrees.

Out of the two types of a rubidium oscillator, the first one, a precision rubidium oscillator, is used for synchronization operation in Tele-network and measurement devices.

The second one, a low phase noise oscillator, is used in applications where the smallness of the size matters like in CDMA, WiMAX, and LTE base station.

Rubidium oscillators are cost-effective and are guaranteed for durability and best performance. Both available from Raditek Inc. See our website.

Solid State Amplifier – Salient Facilitators

A solid-state power amplifier, also known as SSPA, increase the amplitude of the input signal without a change in its other parameters like frequency or the waveform.

Solid-state power amplifiers are used in applications that warrant large amplification of the input frequencies/signals. Power amplifiers are available in the frequency range from 0.30GHz to 100GHz.

Unlike their predecessors, SSPAs are fitted with solid-state transistors made of Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) or Gallium Nitrate (GaN) which do the bulk of amplification job. Further, GaAs transistor-based amplifiers are known to provide the best linearity and GaN-based amplifiers offer the best efficiency in terms of its output.

SSPA is used in applications that demand precision and accuracy such as airborne applications, missiles, radars, and other important and critical communication systems. These are also widely used in high-tech laboratory equipment and field testing systems.

Alongside its use in hi-tech systems, it is also widely used in wireless communications, broadcasting, and audio amplification applications.

The use of cutting-edge transistor technology has enabled solid-state amplifiers to outperform TWTAs in terms of efficiency, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.

Moreover, the most recent SSPAs are adaptable to X and Ku band applications and can factor in customers specifications too.

Furthermore, Raditek state-of-the-art flexible power amplifiers can handle ultra-high-frequency power ranging from Watts to Kilowatts with ease.