Immunity of six-port measurement techniques to the AM-PM noise of the microwave signal generator

Author

Poiré, Phiilippe ; Ghannouchi, Fadhel M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Ecole Polytech. de Montreal, Que., Canada

Volume

2

fYear

1996

fDate

1996

Firstpage

1259

Abstract

This paper presents a study of the influence of AM-PM noise present in a microwave source on the precision of six-port measurements. It has been found that a noisy microwave signal source does not degrade the precision of the measurements. Experimental validation on passive and active devices was carried out and confirm the immunity of six-port measurement techniques to the AM-PM noise of the microwave signal generator

Keywords

amplitude modulation; interference (signal); microwave generation; microwave measurement; pulse modulation; signal generators; AM-PM noise; active devices; experimental validation; microwave signal generator; microwave source; passive and active devices; six-port measurement; Measurement techniques; Microwave devices; Microwave generation; Microwave measurements; Microwave theory and techniques; Noise generators; Noise measurement; Power measurement; Signal generators; Signal to noise ratio;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 1996. IMTC-96. Conference Proceedings. Quality Measurements: The Indispensable Bridge between Theory and Reality., IEEE

Conference_Location

Brussels

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3312-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.1996.507573

Filename

507573