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everything RFCirculators and isolators are very handy (and necessary) devices for use when it is essential to keep RF signal flow in one direction only. Think of them loosely as a steering diode array that directs energy from one port to a specific other port (or ports). Circulators and isolators (an isolator is basically a circulator with the third port terminated in the characteristic impedance) are fundamentally 3-port devices with 120° between ports. Ferrites with special properties (known only to the sworn circulator designer brotherhood) affect the directional control. Here is a brief circulator application note from MECA Electronics.

One important thing to keep in mind is that specified values for isolation are only guaranteed at 50+j0 ohms, or whatever the characteristic impedance of the attenuator model happens to be (50 and 75 ohms most common). The farther away from the characteristic impedance the connected ports are, the farther from the spec the isolation value will be.

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Vector TelecomVector Telecom
Melbourne, Australia
sales@vectortele.com
VECTOR TELECOM has fully instrumented microwave, millimeterwave, & antenna laboratories and production facilities. Our professional engineers have backgrounds from telecommunications, electronics, space and aviation industries. Frequencies up to 50 GHz, at global competitive prices. Custom designs available. TQM / ISO 9001:2000 certification.
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AFT Microwave
+49 7191 9659 0 | Germany
Microwave components including circulators, isolators, waveguide and coaxial components, phase shifters, ferrites, thin film technology.

Advanced Technical Materials, Inc (ATM)
631-289-0363 | Patchogue, NY
Attenuators, bias tees, coaxial cables, couplers, DC blocks, isolators, circulators, line stretchers, noise sources, phase shifters, power dividers/combiners, switches, terminations, waveguide, adapters, horn antenna.

Aerotek Company
662-332-5035, 311-4448 | Thailand
Coaxial, drop-in, lump, drop-in lump, flange mount circulators & isolators, 88 MHz - 18 GHz.

Cernex
408-541-9226 | Sunnyvale, CA
Amplifiers, antennas, couplers, isolators, circulators, filters, diplexers, oscillators, noise sources, switches, phase shifters, transition & adapters, mixers, waveguide products, attenuators, terminations, detectors, subsystems.

Channel Microwave
805-482-7280 | Camarillo, CA
Coaxial and waveguide isolators, circulators, ISO-adapters, integrated assemblies, filters, terminations.

Charter Engineering
727-549-8999 | Largo, FL
Electromechanical switches, attenuators, isolators, terminations, circulators, power dividers, couplers.

Corry Micronics
724-940-7556 | Corry, PA
Dielectric resonators, bandpass filters, LC filters, VCOs, PLLs, patch antennas, power dividers, connectorized lumped element power dividers, directional couplers, isolators/circulators, high power hybrids, diplexers & multiplexers, attenuators, switches, cavity filters, waveguides, standard gain horn antennas.

Dorado International
206-574-0900 | Seattle, WA
Planar, horn, 8.2 GHz to 110 GHz antennas, waveguide isolators & circulators, switches, adapters, connectors.

EM Design, LLC
541-878-3927 | Shady Cove, OR
Specializes in the design and fabrication of RF and microwave components, systems and sub-systems including antennas, antenna polarizers, circulators, isolators, waveguide loads, coaxial loads, microwave pulse compressors, waveguide windows, waveguide seals, waveguide shorts, waveguide couplers and microwave heating.

EMR Corporation
800-796-2875 | Phoenix, AZ
RF peripherals devices from 30 MHz to 2.8 GHz. Design, manufacture and systems' engineering for RF isolators, amplifiers & BDAs, filters - band pass & band reject, mobile & base station duplexers, combiners - cavity ferrite & hybrid ferrite, RX multicouplers and accessories including LNAs.

Ferrite
603-881-5234 | Hudson, NH
Circulators, isolators, transmitters.

Filtel
450-455-6082 | Canada
Couplers, power dividers, isolators, coaxial & waveguide circulators.

Innertron
+82-32-816-1456 | Incheon-City, Korea
A wide selection of RF & microwave components as well as power dividers, power splitters, arrestors, bias-Ts, attenuators, terminations, directional couplers which cover the frequency range from DC to 18 GHz. Waveguide filters, diplexer, adaptor, couplers up to 40 GHz, custom designs are available to support applications for the military and commercial industries.

Instruments for Industry (IFI)
631-467-8400 | Ronkonkoma, NY
Amplifier configurations such as tetrode tubes, TWTs, klystrons, and solid state devices. Standard horn antennas and TEM cells.

MCLI
800-333-6254 | St. Petersburg, FL
Power dividers, couplers, isolators, circulators, waveguide components, oscillators, filters, hybrids, attenuators, switches, terminations, amplifiers.

Mica Microwave
209-825-3977 | Manteca, CA
Circulators, isolators, mixers, equalizers, phase shifters.

Microwave Devices
888-736-8837 | Franklin, IN
Attenuators, terminators, directional couplers, filters, isolators/circulators, cable assemblies, measurement equipment.

Please click here to visit the Wenteq Microwave websiteWenteq Microwave
Duarte, CA
Tel:  626-305-6666

We provide a wide range of high quality RF and microwave products with quick delivery time at very competitive low prices. Our products include coaxial connectors and adapters, circulators, isolators, low noise amplifiers, power amplifiers, broadband amplifiers, terminations and more, covering the frequency range of 100 MHz to 110 GHz.
Products
• Coaxial High Power Attenuators & Terminations
 • High Power Waveguide Terminations
  • RF/Microwave Isolators and Circulators
   • SMA Connectors & RPSMA Connectors
    • High Power Waveguide Terminations
     • Low Noise & Power Amplifiers
      • Subsystems & Frequency Converters
       • Waveguide Switches, Couplers, more

Services
We also provide technical consulting services and engineering contracts which include antenna design, electromagnetic structural analysis, and low cost manufacturing of RF/microwave circuits and systems. We can custom design our products for your systems and/or make them integrated parts of your products for low cost production.

Microwave Resources, Inc
909-627-4125 | Chino, CA
Amplifiers, attenuators, circulators, isolators, frequency multipliers, waveguide couplers, mixers, detectors, filters, pin switches, adapters.

Microwave Technology Corporation (MTC)
+66-35-721-559 to 60 | Wang-noi, Thailand
Microwave passive components of isolators & circulators including coaxial from 80 MHz to 40 GHz. Drop-in or surface mounted from 400 MHz to 20 GHz. Waveguide is up to 40 GHz. Power up to power rating 500 W. Additional product waveguide adaptor & termination.

Murata Electronics
800-241-6574 | Smyrna, GA
Chip multi-layer (1.0 2.5 GHz), chip dielectric (2450 GHz, Bluetooth), surface mount capacitors, thermistors/resistors, coil (inductors)/delay lines, noise suppression products/EMI filters, resonators, piezoelectric sound components, coaxial connectors, antenna/duplexers, isolators/circulators, PLL modules, VCOs, TCXO, RF diode switches, DC-DC converters, sensors.

Nanowave
+82-43-903-4828 | South Korea
SMD, drop-in, coaxial, waveguide isolators, circulators, directional, hybrid couplers, 2way, 3way, 4way dividers, attenuators, terminations.

Pasternack Enterprises, Inc
866-727-8376 | Irvine, CA
Amplifiers to 2 GHz, attenuators 1 - 1000 W DC - 40 GHz, circulators/isolators 1 - 26.5 GHZ w/SMA connectors, combiners/dividers 2 - 12 way 1 MHz - 18 GHz, couplers  low & high power 0.5 - 18 GHz, switches manual & diode DC - 18 GHz, terminations 1/2 - 100 W DC-40 GHz, waveguide 1.70 - 40 GHz.

Raditek
408-266-7404 | San Jose, CA
Isolators, circulators, oscillators, synthesizers, couplers, splitters, combiners, hybrids, adaptors, cable assemblies, connectors, terminations, attenuators, bias tee's, lightning protectors.

Renaissance Electronics
978-772-7774 | Harvard, MA
Manufacturer of RF & microwave sub-systems  and components including isolators & circulators, dividers & combiners, waveguide components, coaxial RF switches, switch matrices, base station equipment.

RF & Noise Components Ltd
+44 (0) 5601 06 69 30 | Southend-on-Sea, Essex, UK
Design & manufacturer of RF & microwave components, including circulators, isolators, combiners, couplers, dividers and power monitors. Specialising in custom designs to meet individual customer requirements. ISO9001:2008 Approved.

RF-Lambda
613-592-6858 | Canada
Couplers, circulators, isolators, mixers, attenuators, coupler, power amplifiers, LNA, VCO, switches, oscillators, connectors, adapters.

RTx Technology Co., Ltd
+82-31-743-6275 | South Korea
Filters, duplexers, multiplexers (ceramic/cavity), VCOs & PLL synthesizers, isolators & circulators, up/down converters, combiners & dividers, directional couplers, SAW devices, attenuators, terminators.

Trak Microwave
888-283-8444 | Tampa, FL
Attenuators, circulators, isolators, comb generators, control devices, couplers, delay line filters, GPS time & frequency, hybrids, IQ mod & demod, mixers, multipliers, oscillators, phase shifters, splitters & combiners, synthesizers, transformers.

Vector Telecom Pty Ltd
+61 3 9607 8357 | Melbourne , Australia
Waveguide components and assemblies, coaxial components and antennas.

VivaTech
+1 818 547 5036 (USA)
+44 750 923 3838 (Intl Mobile)
System front-ends, mm-wave test equipment, source modules, amplifiers, active multipliers, mixers, frequency converters, frequency extension modules, radiometer front-ends, waveguide isolators, waveguide attenuators, passive and active waveguide components and primary noise standards.

Wisewave Technologies (now Ducommun Technologies)
310-513-7200 | Carson, CA
Amplifiers, antennas, attenuators, PIN diode switches, phase shifters, isolators/circulators, frequency converters, oscillators, couplers, magic tees, coax power dividers, bandpass, low pass, high pass filters, waveguide diplexers,  transitions, waveguide to coax adapters, waveguide components, integrated assemblies.

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