Electromagnetic coupling to and from shielded cables-optimizing factors

Judging the shielding effectiveness of shielded cables often means in practice that only the transfer impedance is considered. The transfer impedance essentially characterizes the coupling via the magnetic field; the coupling via the electric field, the transfer admittance, is mostly neglected. This may be correct for shields with high optical coverage but for optimized single braided shields (coverage ≈0.8 . . . 0.9), the transfer admittance has to be taken into account. In practice, the cable shields are mostly grounded or open-ended at the line ends. With regard to the shield connections, the electromagnetic coupling to a cable by a plane wave and coupling from a cable are investigated. From the results, optimizing factors for the coupling parameters of shielded cables are deduced. By means of these optimizing factors the coupling to and from a cable can be minimized in certain applications