Investigation of electromagnetic noise transmission characteristics from AC mains port to telecommunication port

A method of evaluating the isolation factor from an AC mains port to a telecommunication port was investigated. Telecommunication equipment was represented by a 4-port network consisting of a pair of wire and ground. The relationship between input and output signals of the network was represented by an F-matrix and the isolation factor (ratio of input to output signals) was derived from the matrix. We developed a method of measuring the parameters and the measured values for a resistance-network agree well with calculated ones. The evaluation results of the isolation factor for three types of telecommunication equipment show that isolation for differential-mode noise from AC mains to telecommunication ports is larger than that for common-mode noise.