75-110GHz WR-10 WAVEGUIDE ATTENUATOR

75-110GHz WR-10 WAVEGUIDE ATTENUATOR

• Helps prevent receiver saturation and overload
• Dissipates excess energy safely as heat
• Improves intermodulation distortion (IMD) performance by reducing input power to nonlinear devices

• A WAVEGUIDE ATTENUATOR with absorptive (coaxial‑to‑waveguide) design uses lossy ferrite or dielectric materials that absorb electromagnetic energy.
• A WAVEGUIDE ATTENUATOR maintains a good impedance match (low VSWR) across its operating frequency band, ensuring minimal reflection.
• A WAVEGUIDE ATTENUATOR attenuates signals by converting part of the electromagnetic energy into heat, which is dissipated through the waveguide body and heat sinks.
• A WAVEGUIDE ATTENUATOR can be fixed (providing a constant attenuation value, e.g., 3 dB, 6 dB, 10 dB, 20 dB) or variable (adjustable over a range, e.g., 0–30 dB or 0–60 dB).
• Isolation improvement –
• A WAVEGUIDE ATTENUATOR increases isolation between two active components (e.g., amplifiers in series) to prevent oscillations.
• Harmonic and spurious suppression –
• A WAVEGUIDE ATTENUATOR reduces higher‑order harmonic levels that may interfere with other system components.
• Radar systems –
• A WAVEGUIDE ATTENUATOR adjusts transmitter output power for built‑in‑test (BIT) or calibration routines.