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DOI:10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2016-MOPMY016
Title Quadrature Directional Coupling Method for Precise RF Power Measurement
Authors
  • B. Du, G. Huang, L. Lin, Y.T. Liu, Z. Zhao
    USTC/NSRL, Hefei, Anhui, People's Republic of China
Abstract The directional coupler is used in the RF transmission and distribution system of accelerator, to measure the forward and backward power. Due to the finite directional isolation of the coupler (20-30dB normally), the crosstalk exists between the bi-directional coupling output signals. For the typical isolation of 26dB, if the bi-directional crosstalk signals are in- or anti- phase, the error of input or reflected power measurement is 10% in case of total reflection, whilst the error of reflected power measurement is 100% in case of VSWR 1.1. A method of quadrature directional coupling measurement is developed to solve the isolation problem. A pair of directional couplers with 90° phase difference are employed to measure the RF power. The influence of the directional crosstalk would be reduced significantly by processing the measurement data. The prototype of quadrature directional couplers is constructed to verify this method. The results showed that the measurement accuracy of quadrature coupler pair after data process is better than 2% for forward measurement, even if the error of single coupler is over 6%. The paper also analyses the error caused by non-ideal quadrature.
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Conference IPAC2016, Busan, Korea
Series International Particle Accelerator Conference (7th)
Proceedings Link to full IPAC2016 Proccedings
Session Poster Session
Date 09-May-16   16:00–18:00
Main Classification 07 Accelerator Technology
Sub Classification T08 RF Power Sources
Keywords coupling, radio-frequency, feedback, controls, experiment
Publisher JACoW, Geneva, Switzerland
Editors Christine Petit-Jean-Genaz (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland); Dong Eon Kim (PAL, Pohang, Republic of Korea); Kyung Sook Kim (PAL, Pohang, Republic of Korea); In Soo Ko (POSTECH, Pohang, Republic of Korea); Volker RW Schaa (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany)
ISBN 978-3-95450-147-2
Published June 2016
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