Ultra-Wideband Antenna Characteristics and Pulse Distortion Measurements

Author

Lauber, Wilfred ; Palaninathan, Siva

Author_Institution

Commun. Res. Centre Canada, Ottawa, Ont.

fYear

2006

fDate

24-27 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

617

Lastpage

622

Abstract

The return loss and gain of three UWB antennas have been measured. These results were used to predict the antenna performance with UWB signals in both the time and frequency domains. The predictions were then verified with measurements from two UWB signal sources. In contrast similar measurements made on a narrowband communications antenna predict and show much more distortion. The results showing both pulse distortion in the time domain and frequency filtering in the frequency domain are presented in this paper. General design guidelines for UWB antennas are given which minimize the pulse distortion

Keywords

filtering theory; time-frequency analysis; ultra wideband antennas; UWB signals; frequency filtering; narrowband communication; pulse distortion measurements; time-frequency domain analysis; ultrawideband antenna characteristics; Antenna measurements; Distortion measurement; Filtering; Frequency domain analysis; Gain measurement; Loss measurement; Narrowband; Pulse measurements; Ultra wideband antennas; Ultra wideband technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultra-Wideband, The 2006 IEEE 2006 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Waltham, MA

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0101-1

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0102-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICU.2006.281619

Filename

4059514