Understanding Circulators and Isolators

This video provide a short technical introduction to radio frequency circulators and isolators, including their basic function, their characteristics, and their common application, and it also briefly discuss how to measure or quantify circulators and isolators using test and measurement instruments. Understanding Duplexers:    • Understanding Duplexers   Vector Network Analyzers from Rohde & Schwarz: https://www.rohde-schwarz.com/us/prod... Test and Measurement Fundamentals Playlist:    • Test & Measurement Fundamentals   Timeline: 00:00 Introduction 00:25 Suggested viewing 00:46 Controlling the direction of RF power transfer 01:46 About circulators 03:03 Routing RF energy through a circulator 04:19 Circulator construction 05:10 Applications of circulators 05:58 Circulator characteristics 07:13 About multi-stage circulators 08:01 About isolators 08:58 About measurements of circulators / isolators 09:49 Example measurement – insertion loss and isolation 10:44 Summary