A new method for automatic calibration of 5-port reflectometers

Author

Rangel de Sousa, Fernando ; Huyart, Bernard

Author_Institution

Departament of Commun. & Electron., Ecole Nat. Superieure des Telecommun., Paris, France

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

20-23 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

1063

Abstract

The five-port reflectometer has been recently applied to demodulators and radars, offering an alternative to classic In-Phase/In-Quadrature (I/Q) discriminators. In these applications, calibration of the reflectometer is an important task. Most of the methods developed are suitable for the instrumentation and measurement field and present a high degree of complexity. We propose in this paper a new method for calibrating six or five-port reflectometers. This procedure is advantageous for its simplicity and is particularly useful for calibration in manufacturing processes.

Keywords

calibration; microwave reflectometry; network analysers; reflectometers; RF signals; automatic calibration; complex signal discriminators; five-port reflectometer; manufacturing processes; network analyser; six-port reflectometers; vectorial addition; wireless receivers; Artificial neural networks; Bit error rate; Calibration; Circuits; Degradation; Demodulation; Detectors; Modems; Radar; Radio frequency;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Optoelectronics Conference, 2003. IMOC 2003. Proceedings of the 2003 SBMO/IEEE MTT-S International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7824-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMOC.2003.1242869

Filename

1242869