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News Release from: Anritsu (UK) | Subject: Integrated V connectors
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 20 November 2001
Launcher and bead together for RF
connectors
Anritsu has released a family of integrated V connectors using a patented design that incorporates the launcher and integrated glass bead in a single housing.
Anritsu has released a family of integrated V connectors using a patented design that incorporates the launcher and integrated glass bead in a single housing to produce significant improvements in efficiency and performance while also reducing design and manufacturing costs Based on Anritsu's highly successful 1.85mm V connector design, the integrated V connectors' excellent return loss and SWR make them well suited for use as the RF input in optical modulators, as well as in traditional microwave applications where specified connector performance up to 65GHz is needed
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 4 Aug 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Two versions of the integrated V connector have been developed.
The V115F is a ground lip version, which includes all compensation steps for matching to microstrip or coplanar waveguide (CPW).
It provides a very short ground path to help maintain good VSWR at millimetre wave frequencies.
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A screw-in version, the V116F, is also available.
Both integrated V connectors are fully compatible with existing V connectors, as well as with 2.4mm connectors.
A number of advantages are realised by including the ground lip as part of the connector.
First, it provides a simple way for the circuit designer to achieve a very low impedance, broadband, ground connection right at the connector for improved performance.
This is evident by the integrated V connectors' industry-best typical return loss of 15dB over the operating frequency band of 65GHz, with SWR of 1.30:1 at 65GHz.
Installation is also made much easier by having the launcher and glass bead in a single housing.
The V115F can be easily soldered into the housing wall using SN62 solder.
The V116F is screwed in and secured using torque.
If a hermetic seal is required, the V116F can also be soldered.
In addition to tangible cost savings associated with integrating the launcher and glass bead in a single housing, there are ancillary economic benefits.
Prior to the integrated V connectors, machining was complicated and expensive because of the stringent requirements for tight tolerances and concentric holes.
Once that was complete, the bead had to be carefully soldered into place and then the connector launcher screwed into place.
With the V115F/V116F, the installation hole is much simpler to create and there is no separate bead that needs to be soldered.
Both the V115F and V116F feature the inherent advantages of the V connector design.
V connectors require only half the insertion force of a 2.4mm connector, which improves reliability.
Other benefits of the V connectors are sufficiently shorter male pins to prevent damage to the female connectors caused by misalignment, and considerably less susceptibility to pin gap than 2.4mm connectors.
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