Agilent Technologies intros 67-GHz Nonlinear Vector Network Analyzer
Agilent Technologies Inc. has expanded its award-winning PNA-X Nonlinear Vector Network Analyzer to 67 GHz. A new 67-GHz phase-reference calibration standard, configured to work with the 67-GHz PNA-X NVNA, is also now available. Using this hardware, designers can easily characterize and model components accurately up to frequencies of 67 GHz. In addition, X-parameters can be measured up to 67 GHz, providing an accurate model of linear and nonlinear component behavior at very high frequencies and wide bandwidth.
The new 67-GHz NVNA enables engineers to make high-frequency nonlinear measurements across a very wide frequency bandwidth. The 67-GHz phase-reference calibration standard - an industry first - enables accurate and traceable nonlinear measurements to 67 GHz using the NVNA. The phase reference generates a comb of frequencies from 10 MHz to 67 GHz with a known cross-frequency phase relationship traceable to the National Institute of Standards and Technology. This relationship calibrates the NVNA to measure spectrum to 67 GHz with a predictable and accurate cross-frequency phase.
"Accurately measuring and reducing a component's nonlinear behavior at higher frequencies is crucial to creating linear system solutions for aerospace and defense applications," said Gregg Peters, vice president and general manager of Agilent's Component Test Division. "Our 67-GHz phase-reference calibration standard and NVNA provide component characterization and X-parameters to quickly, easily and, with the highest degree of accuracy, measure and model nonlinear behavior. With its full-match correction, accurate amplitude and cross-frequency relative phase information, the NVNA is setting a new standard in accuracy and insight into nonlinear component behavior."
The new 67-GHz NVNA and phase-reference calibration standard are available now (PNA-X also required).
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