Our company was founded
in January 1981 with the mission of designing and producing high quality
RF and Microwave filters. Dr. Richard V. Snyder, founder of
RS, had developed and wanted to pursue filter technology unavailable and unaggressively
pursued at that time. Specifically, he developed an approach
to implementation of filter networks involving the use of evanescent modes
of propagation that offered a good combination of size and insertion loss,
not achievable with any other method current at the time.
This technique has been developed at RS to the point of application with
arbitrary transfer functions, bandwidths of 1% to 80% and from 200 MHz
to 40 GHz. Since that time the Company has also developed unique
lumped element networks with symmetrical response, dielectric resonator
designs (1 MHz bandwidth with a center
frequency of 8 GHz!), compact high power, low-loss notch filters
(switched and fixed), the smallest possible multiplexers, blind-mate filters (as
small as drop-in designs) for high isolation applications, Bessel-Thompson
world standard filters (our OR series) for use in optical communication
systems, evanescent mode dielectric-based notch filters, and a host of
other unique products for system application.
We
are a 46-employee, $9,500,000 volume, program-oriented company, motivated
by participation in challenging, state-of- the-art production probable
applications. Our plant is a well-equipped, 30,000 square foot
facility which includes a fully equipped machine shop producing mid-range
quantities, a test area using 1 MHz to 50 GHz vector analyzers, a high-tech
assembly area, and a complete finishing area. We are the major supplier
of filters for the world-wide JTIDS/MIDS/GPS
(all LINK-16) programs,
a high power spread spectrum military communication link which interfaces
with TACAN,
IFF,
and other navigation and communication systems. We are the
largest supplier of high power notch filters in the world. We have
been and/or continue to be a major supplier on
MIDS, JTIDS, ASPJ, ALQ-172, LAMPS, ALR67 (ASR),
Rapport III, SLQ32, GPN, SPS- 48, GBR, AMRAAM, SM-2, AEGIS,
etc. Our customers include most of the major manufacturers in the world
of the above-mentioned systems.