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Using Six-Port and Eight-Port Junctions to Measure Active and Passive Circuit Parameters

Publication Title: Using Six-Port and Eight-Port Junctions to Measure Active and Passive Circuit Parameters

Series Title: NBS Technical Notes

Personal Author: Hoer, Cletus A.

Date Issued: 1975

Subject: Microwave circuits
Microwave measurements
Reflectometer
Parametric amplifiers

Government Author: Commerce Department, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) .

Category: Executive Agency Publications

SuDoc Class Number: C 13.

Abstract: The review paper brings together a number of old and new methods for measuring voltage, current, power, impedance, and phase angle using only amplitude type detectors. Vector voltmeters and reflectometers can be constructed to measure all of these quantities in terms of four amplitude measurements made on four arms of a six-port junction. Whereas previous uses of this type of instrument depended on precision components for accuracy, new equations switch this dependence primarily to detector linearity and only secondarily on the properties of the measuring device itself.