GaAs MMICs based High Power Ku-band T/R chain using in-house processed PCB and Assembly

A Ku-band high power Transmit-Receive (T/R) Module chain with a transmit chain output power of 4.6 watt and a receive chain Noise Figure (NF) less than 5 dB is developed using an in-house PCB processing and MMICs assembly. All the COTs based MMICs except circulator used in T/R module are based on Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) technology. The integrated version of this T/R module can have wide applications in high-performance space based phased array system for surveillance, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar for aircraft, missiles etc.