Peak power sensors have a small smoothing capacitance and low-impedance load across the smoothing capacitors to discharge rapidly when the RF amplitude drops, which results in wide video bandwidths and fast rise time specifications. The RTP5000 Series, for example, achieves a rise time of less than 3 nanoseconds and 195 MHz of video bandwidth.
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