Statistical analysis on measurement errors of rotating element electric field vector (REV) method

摘要

Rotating element electric field vector (REV) method is very effective for the calibration of phased array antennas. However, it has measurement errors for the case that each element antenna has amplitude and phase excitation errors. In this report, our goal is to clarify the measurement errors by statistical theory. The derived theory is validated by measured results. It turns that we can evaluate measurement errors of the REV method