Evaluation of Errors in Calibration Procedures for Measurements of Reflection Coefficient

Procedures for the calibration of computer-controlled network analyzers in reflection measurements are studied. The major aim of this paper is to develop an error analysis in order to define a quality factor, for evaluating the performances of a calibration procedure. This is done by using the invariance property of the cross ratio, which easily lets one obtain analytical expressions for the residual errors As an application of this technique, a comparison between two actual calibration procedures has been made using an automatic network analyzer. The experimental results favorably compare with the ones obtained on theoretical basis.