A time domain spherical near-field measurement facility for UWB antennas employing a hardware gating technique
Journal: Advances in radio science
Year: 2010

Abstract. A spherical near-field antenna measurement facility employing a time domain hardware gating technique is presented. On-off keyed sinusoidal impulses are used as stimuli requiring wideband antennas with a bandwidth in excess of 400 MHz. The received signal is evaluated in the time interval after reaching the steady state and before multipath components arising in the non-ideal anechoic chamber distort the signal. An application specific pulse generator synthesizing sinusoidal impulses w