Anritsu today announced the introduction of the ShockLine™ family of Vector Network Analyzers (VNAs), which combine high accuracy, sensitivity and sweep speed with prices as much as 75% lower than those of traditional bench-top VNAs.
The new instruments are intended for the testing of passive devices such as cables, connectors, filters, and antennas in a wide variety of engineering, manufacturing and education applications. They can perform the single-ended and mixed-mode S-parameter measurements typically required for production testing of passive devices, offering frequency coverage up to 40GHz. They can also conduct path loss characterization of complex systems. Faults in broadband devices can be easily and quickly identified using a time-domain with time-gating option.
The ShockLine VNAs mark a radical departure from conventional VNA design, since they feature no display or keypad, and are controlled remotely by computer via a LAN or other connection. A small 2U chassis allows the VNAs to easily slide into rack configurations.
The space-saving design does not, however, compromise performance. For instance, the ShockLine MS46522A VNA features a 70µs/point sweep speed, >110dB dynamic range and corrected directivity of >42dB.
As well as the MS46522A series, Anritsu is today announcing:
· the Economy ShockLine MS46322A 2-port VNA, for measurements up to 40GHz
· the MS46524A 4-port VNAs for differential and multi-port device testing up to 7GHz
