Near-Field Testing System for Antennas Operating in Short Millimeter Waveband

Author

Avetisyan, Vahan H.

Author_Institution

Yerevan Telecommun. Res. Inst., Yerevan, Armenia

Volume

58

Issue

6

fYear

2010

fDate

6/1/2010 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2149

Lastpage

2153

Abstract

A design is suggested for testing equipment of antennas operating in short millimeter waveband (SMW, f= 60...300 GHz). Testing is based on amplitude and phase measurements over a plane in the near field of the antenna under test. Design solutions are offered for critical subsystems, including the mechanical scanner, the radio-measurement subsystem and the automatic control subsystem. The approach should allow near-field testing of SMW antennas to achieve high accuracies comparable to those of similar testing of centimeter waveband antennas.

Keywords

antenna testing; millimetre wave antennas; test equipment; SMW antennas; automatic control subsystem; centimeter waveband antennas; mechanical scanner; near-field testing system; radio-measurement subsystem; short millimeter waveband; Antenna measurements; Automatic control; Data processing; Frequency; Millimeter wave communication; Millimeter wave measurements; Millimeter wave technology; Phase measurement; Probes; System testing; Transmission lines; Antenna measurements; millimeter wave technology; testing equipment;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-926X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TAP.2010.2046847

Filename

5439782