Evaluation and Impact Reduction of Common Mode Currents on Antenna Feeders in Radiation Measurements

Sensors
Andreea Constantin, Razvan D Tamas

Abstract

Common mode currents on antenna feeders usually occur when feeding a symmetric radiator through an asymmetric line, or when the ground plane is electrically small. Such currents may have magnitudes comparable to the feed currents and therefore have a major impact on the total radiated field. For antenna radiation measurements, both assessment and reduction of the common mode currents on antenna feeders are crucial. Techniques to discriminate antenna and feeder radiation are mainly needed for design and optimization purposes. Antenna gain measurements in a multipath site can be performed by using the distance averaging method. In this paper, we show that the distance averaging technique can be applied to reduce the effect of common mode currents for measuring the field radiated by symmetrical antennas. Two measuring configurations are proposed depending on the number of symmetry degrees of the antenna under test, and a differential approach for extracting the field created by the common mode currents was also developed. The experimental validation was performed by measuring a simple wire dipole and a log-periodic dipole array (LPDA) with a small square loop as a probe, both on the feeder side and on the feeder free side.

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