Development of a Symmetric Ring Junction as a Four-Port Reflectometer for Complex Reflection Coefficient Measurements

Autor: K.Y. Lee, B. K. Chung, K. Y. You, E. M. Cheng, Z. Abbas
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Radioengineering, Vol 24, Iss 4, Pp 906-911 (2015)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1210-2512
Popis: Six-port reflectometer is well-known for its ability to measure magnitude and phase-shift of microwave signal using four power detectors that perform magnitude-only measurements. This paper presents the development of an innovative symmetric ring junction as four-port reflectometer for complex reflection coefficient measurements. It reduces the number of required detectors to two. Design optimization, new calibration modeling and algorithm are discussed in details for this four-port reflectometer. The developed four-port reflectometer is compared to five-port reflectometer and vector network analyzer. It is found that the measured magnitude and phase-shift shows good performance in comparison with the commercial vector network analyzer and the five-port reflectometer.
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