Title :
An Empirical Model for the Warm-Up Drift of a Commercial Harmonic Phase Standard
Author :
Jargon, Jeffrey A. ; Splett, Jolene D. ; Vecchia, Dominic F. ; DeGroot, Donald C.
Author_Institution :
Nat. Inst. of Stand. & Technol., Boulder, CO
fDate :
6/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
We develop an empirical model for the warm-up drift in a harmonic phase standard used to calibrate the phase distortion of a nonlinear vector network analyzer. The model enables us to estimate the time at which the standard reaches stability
Keywords :
calibration; drift chambers; network analysers; commercial harmonic phase standard; empirical model; nonlinear vector network analyzer; phase distortion calibration; warm-up drift; Calibration; Frequency measurement; Harmonic analysis; NIST; Oscilloscopes; Phase distortion; Phase estimation; Phase measurement; Stability; Standards development; Drift; empirical; harmonic; model; phase; standard; warm-up;
Journal_Title :
Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TIM.2007.894886
