1. Ultra Wideband Microwave Ten-Port Reflectometer.
- Author
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Askarian, Amirhossein and Moradi, Gholamreza
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ULTRA-wideband communication , *MICROWAVES , *RELIABILITY in engineering , *REFLECTOMETER , *RECTANGULAR waveguides - Abstract
This paper describes and simulates the Ultra Wideband (UWB) Ten-Port Reflectometer (TPR). It is based on the concept of well-known sixport structure so that numbers of measuring ports are increased to eight in order to improve reliability and accuracy as well. This article presents UWB (2 GHz to 12 GHz) reflectometer using Rectangular Waveguide (RWG). It is proved that increasing numbers of measuring ports leads to improving accuracy and reliability of structure so that each port with corresponding port help to make wideband reflectometer as well as having reliable and robust structure. This prototype of ten-port reflectometer is simulated by Agilent ADS and using RWG that has more bandwidth, less loss and high Q-factor than other common transmission lines, say microstrip, SIW and CPW. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015