Cables And Connectors Link Microwave Systems

摘要

Cables and connectors are usually only noticed when they fail. At their best, they can add nothing electrically to a system or a circuit but, at their worst, they can degrade amplitude and phase performance. Recent developments in these interconnection components have been aimed at making them as electrically "invisible" as possible, with low loss and the best possible impedance match to a 50-Ohm system.rnFor example, coaxial cable assembly supplier Electronic Assembly Manufacturing, Inc. recently announced that it was offering high-performance flexible cable assemblies for applications through 20 GHz (see figure).