Near-field testing system for antennas operating in short millimeter waveband

V.H. Avetisyan

IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, vol.58, № 6, June 2010, pp. 2149-2153.

A design is suggested for testing equipment of antennas operating in short millimeter waveband (SMW). Testing is based on amplitude and phase measurements over a plane in the near field of the antenna under test. Design solutions are offered for critical subsystems, including the mechanical scanner, the radio-measurement subsystem and the automatic control subsystem. The approach should allow near-field testing of SMW antennas to achieve high accuracies comparable to those of similar testing of centimeter waveband antennas

Near-field testing system for antennas operating in short millimeter waveband