A Six-Port Reflectometer Calibration Using Wilkinson Power Divider
- 1 Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, Tunisia
Abstract
A new calibration method for a six-port reflectometer which minimizes the effect of power measurement errors is presented. It is based on the power divider correlator to obtain estimates of the six-port calibration constants. The calibration procedure is to determine the constants that govern the operation of the six-port from the measurement of power or output ports tensions by placing five to eleven standard loads in succession to DUT. A load and four offset shorts are used as reflection standards. Computer simulation results are presented to show that the described procedure substantially reduces the overall error in the calibration constants.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ajeassp.2016.274.280
Copyright: © 2016 Traii Moubarek and Ali Gharsallah. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Keywords
- Calibration Program Six-Port Junction
- Reflectometer
- Power Divider