Called Prometheus, it was unveiled at the International Microwave Symposium this week.
I combines gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductor with the company’s Cerus 32 solid-state power amplifiers.
Bandwidth is 5.2GHz from 47.2 to 52.4GHz range, and typical saturated output power is 57dBm (500W) after a typical gain of 70dB.
Non-linearity gives 63dBm OIP3 at 50dBm output.
“The system supports expansion from single units to multi-module configurations and includes built-in redundancy and graceful degradation modes to maintain functionality under fault conditions,” said Filtronic “Its design eliminates the need for harmonic filters.”
Features include control and monitoring via Ethernet or serial interfaces using SNMP V3 management, temperature-compensated gain, automatic bias compensation and input-output protection.
Optional extensions include linearisers, up-converters, waveguide pressurisation and liquid cooling.
