RF Cables & Connectors
RF Cables & Connectors
RF cables and connectors form the physical interconnect backbone of any RF and microwave test system. This category encompasses coaxial cables, precision connectors, and impedance-matched adapters designed for use with spectrum analyzers, vector network analyzers, signal generators, and other RF test instruments. Proper selection of cables and connectors is critical to maintaining signal integrity, minimizing insertion loss, and ensuring measurement accuracy across frequency ranges from DC to millimeter-wave.
High-performance RF interconnects are used across telecommunications, aerospace and defense, automotive radar, satellite communications, and electronics manufacturing. Whether interconnecting benchtop instruments in a calibration laboratory or assembling a phase-coherent multi-port test system, the quality of cables and connectors directly affects the reliability and repeatability of measurements.
Typical Applications
- Connecting signal generators and spectrum analyzers in conducted RF and EMC test setups
- High-frequency interconnects in VNA-based device characterization and calibration systems
- Phase-stable cabling for antenna measurement ranges and radar test systems
- Ruggedized field interconnects for on-site telecommunications and antenna site testing
- Precision coaxial connections in calibration laboratories and standards traceability chains
Popular Brands
Tektronix offers a range of phase-stable RF cables suited to precision VNA and antenna testing. Keysight provides precision coaxial connectors and adapters for its test instrument ecosystem. Specialist manufacturers such as Huber+Suhner, Radiall, and Rosenberger supply a wide range of RF cables and connectors for test and measurement applications.