Method of facilitating construction of a microwave system by appropriate measurements or determination of parameters of selected individual microwave components to obtain overall system power response

摘要

A method of facilitating construction of a microwave system which permits the evaluation of a variety of hardware construction options and subsequent evaluation of their effectiveness by measuring or otherwise determining appropriate physical parameters of selected components arranged in a selected order to predict the power response uses an iterative ladder network constructed according to a point discontinuity model for individual components of the system in which input and output reflection coefficients and an attenuation coefficient are calculated for each component based on measured or specified insertion loss and VSWR or return loss values, and the ladder is analyzed by processing the coefficients forward in the direction of power flow.