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CPI has an extensive portfolio of:

 

CPI has developed highly integrated solutions for satellite communications and medical imaging applications.

 

Generally, CPI’s products are used to:

  • generate, amplify (multiply), focus or direct various forms of electromagnetic energy;
  • transmit, direct, measure and control electromagnetic energy;
  • provide the voltages and currents to power and control devices that generate electromagnetic energy; or
  • provide some combination of the above functions, up to and including complete communication systems.

 

CPI's products include:

  • Antenna systems: CPI designs and manufactures antenna systems for a variety of applications, including communications, radar, Earth observation and telemetry. Along with a variety of antenna types, including parabolic reflector,  phased array, edge and tilt scanning antennas, conformal electronic scanning antennas, stabilized shipboard tracking antennas and the company’s trademark FLAPS (Flat Parabolic Surface) antennas, the antenna systems also include mounts and pedestals optimized for their intended operation to track any object in any orbit The antenna systems used on airborne, shipboard and ground-based platforms are designed to enable high-performance, high-data-rate transmission at frequencies ranging from one GHz to greater than 100 GHz.

 

  • Advanced composite radomes, reflector antennas and structures: CPI designs and manufactures advanced composite radomes, metal space frame radomes, reflector antennas and structures for defense applications, including ground-based, aerospace and naval applications, and for commercial aerospace applications. A radome is a weatherproof structure that encloses and protects a microwave antenna without interfering with the antenna’s ability to transmit or receive electromagnetic signals. The company’s products are customized for each system and application based on the operational frequency, RF-performance, structural and environmental requirements of the end system. CPI’s radome products cover frequencies up to 95 GHz.

 

  • Satellite communications amplifiers: Satellite communications (satcom) amplifiers provide integrated power amplification for the transmission of voice, video, broadcast, data, Internet and other communications signals from ground stations to satellites in all frequency bands. CPI provides a broad line of complete, integrated satellite communications amplifiers that consist of a vacuum electron device (VED), such as a traveling wave tube (TWT) or a klystron or solid-state technology. These amplifiers are often combined in sub-system configurations with other components to meet specific customer requirements. The company offers amplifiers both for defense and for commercial applications.

 

  • Solid-state products: CPI designs and manufactures solid-state products for a number of applications, including communications, defense and scientific applications. These products include power amplifiers, frequency converters, low noise amplifiers and low noise block converters. In the communications market, these products are specifically designed to address the demanding needs of the steadily growing commercial and government satcom applications, such as satcom on the pause and satcom on the move, which are providing highly mobile interconnectivity on a global basis. CPI’s solid-state products extend from microwave to state-of-the art millimeter-wave frequencies and are based on both gallium arsenide (GaAs) and leading-edge gallium nitride (GaN) technology so that customers may employ the optimal solution for these applications.

 

  • High-frequency x-ray imaging systems: CPI designs and manufactures x-ray generators for medical imaging applications. The company has introduced mobile x-ray generators and x-ray generators with imaging processing systems to assist its customers in their migration from film-based radiology systems to digital radiology systems. CPI also provides the electronics and software subsystems that control and tie together much of the other ancillary equipment in a typical x-ray imaging system.