When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Recently, a reader wrote to me seeking a copy of a paper on measuring the transient ...

Power sensors and signal processing A typical power sensor and meter includes a sensor element followed by analogue and digital signal-processing components, as shown in Figure 2. The sensor element ...

Measuring RF Power Sensor Nonlinearity RF power sensor linearity is a commonly misunderstood topic. To obtain the most accurate power measurements, though, you need to understand what linearity is, ...

The Tegam Gemini 5540A achieves two-sigma accuracy of ±0.5% + 0.5 W for precise in-line RF power measurement and control. Integrating a power sensor and meter into a single instrument, the Gemini ...

DENVER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Advanced Energy (Nasdaq: AEIS) – a global leader in highly engineered, precision power conversion, measurement and control solutions – today announced the GEMINI™ 5540A ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In August, this column took up some aspects of the measurement of DTV transmitter power output.

Tom Hoppin from Agilent Technologies explains how to correlate microwave measurements between handheld and benchtop analysers to achieve higher accuracy in the field As more and more technicians and ...

Power plants use indicators to monitor process parameters such as pressure, flow, temperature, voltage, current, and vibration. Unless a facility is relatively new, it likely has analog panel meters; ...

Modern digital receiver/exciters (DREX) used in radar and communications systems are capable of significant self-testing in a production factory environment. Long past are the days where the analog ...

RF-to-baseband front ends consisting of a low-noise amplifier (LNA) cascaded with a mixer downconverting RF signals to baseband have become the epitome of RF devices tested in high-volume ...

The output power of an RF or microwave system is a key determinant of its performance. For this reason, signal power is measured at every stage – from design and prototyping to maintenance in the ...