The ME7808B broadband vector network analyzer (VNA) from Anritsu Company improves dynamic range by as much as 12 dB and offers an ultra-low phase noise capability that reduces high-level noise for measurements in the banded millimeter-wave ranges.

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A flexible system architecture permits the ME7808B to perform as a broadband VNA, a stand-alone microwave VNA, and a millimeter-wave VNA. In addition to providing continuous frequency coverage from 40 MHz to 110 GHz, the equipment can be configured with any of the company’s two-port Lightning VNAs to cover specific bands in the 50 to 325 GHz range.

As a broadband VNA with Anritsu’s W1 Connector coaxial interface, the equipment achieves a system dynamic range of 97 dB at 20 GHz and 79 dB at 100 GHz. When the analyzer is configured with an extended W-band waveguide test port for millimeter-wave measurements, system dynamic range is 90 dB at 75 GHz and 87 dB at 100 GHz.

The ME7808B broadband and millimeter-wave VNAs are configured with two 20 GHz synthesized sources that deliver ultra-low phase noise. With the two sources providing LO and RF drive signals to the millimeter-wave modules, trace noise is less than 0.1 dB at 325 GHz.

Pricing starts at $183,000 with delivery of six to eight weeks.