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Key Features
– Broad operating frequency range up to 50 GHz eliminates the need for multiple
dividers
– Excellent amplitude (± 0.3 dB) and phase tracking (± 2°) typical ensures highly
accurate power division
– Low SWR minimizes measurement uncertainty
Description
The Keysight Technologies, Inc. 11636C power divider provides good matching and
excellent tracking characteristics for highly accurate power division, signal routing and
matrix testing from DC to 50 GHz. Offering excellent output power symmetry between
the two outputs ports, the 11636C is recommended for applications such as power
combining and transmission line fault testing using a network analyzer. The excellent
source match of all three ports improves fault location measurements by reducing
reections. These power dividers are not recommend for ratio or source leveling appli-
cations.
The Keysight 11636C provides a symmetrical 6 dB power division. It can also be used
as power combiner: when signal is input at the two output ports, the sum of the two
signals appears at the input port.
Applications
Power dividing
The Keysight 11636C power divider uses three 16 2/3 Ω resistors for direct power
dividing applications such as splitting one source into two parts for separate measure-
ments or distributing low power signals into two or more antennas.
The power divider can also be used for broadband independent signal sampling in test
systems. Using a power divider the test system simultaneously measures two differ-
ent characteristics of a signal, such as frequency and power. Figure 1 shows a power
divider used in a simple power dividing application.
Figure 1. Test setup for power dividing application