Assessment of an alternative six‐port circuit for broadband complex voltage‐ratio measurements

Abstract

The assessment of an alternative six‐port circuit in terms of frequency behavior when used to measure complex voltage ratio is presented. A numerical comparison to commonly used and well‐known six‐port circuits is carried out. The presented results can help us to choose between different six‐port configurations depending on the application, and show that the proposed circuit is the most suitable in general. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 46: 24–27, 2005; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.20890