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Calibration and correction capabilities – Atec Anritsu-ME7838A User Manual

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PN: 11410-00593 Rev. D

ME7838A BB/mm-Wave VNA TDS

Calibration, Verification, and Measurement

VectorStar ME7838A BB/mm-Wave VNA

7. Calibration and Correction Capabilities

Calibration, Verification, and Measurement

Calibration Methods

Short-Open-Load-Through (SOLT) with Fixed or Sliding Load

Offset-Short

Triple-Offset-Short

Short-Open-Load-Reciprocal (SOLR) Reciprocal or Unknown Through Method

Line-Reflect-Line (LRL) / Line-Reflect-Match (LRM)

Advanced-LRM (A-LRM™) for improved on-wafer calibrations

AutoCal

With Thru Update available.

Correction Models

Full 12-term

1 Path / 2 Port

Frequency Response (Transmission or Reflection, one or both directions)

Reflection Only (1 Port or 2 Ports)

Merged Calibration

Merge multiple calibration methods over bands of frequency points.

Coefficients for Calibration Standards

Load from USB Device

Load coefficients from USB Memory Device from your Anritsu calibration kit.

User-Defined

Enter manual coefficients into User-Defined locations.

Reference Impedance

Modify the reference impedance from 50 Ω to any impedance, excluding 0 Ω.

Interpolation

Allows interpolation between calibration frequency points, if selected

Adapter Removal Calibration

Characterizes and "removes" an adapter used during calibration that will not be used for subsequent device

measurements, for accurate measurement of non-insertable devices.

Dispersion Compensation

Selectable as Coaxial, other non-dispersive (for example a coplanar waveguide), Waveguide, or Microstrip.

Power Calibrations

Types

Flat Power Calibrations and Linear Power Calibrations (Power Meter Correction)

Enhanced Power Accuracy

Different power meter calibrations are available to enhance power accuracy at the desired reference plane

(to usually ≈ 0.1 dB for short periods of time).

Flat Power Calibrations

Flat power calibrations (using the appropriate W1 adapter depending on the sensor) are available.

Different power meters/sensors are required depending on the frequency range (above or below 70 GHz).

Power level is user-selectable when within the power adjustment range of the internal source.

Other power levels are then arrived at by offset transfers.

Linear Power Calibration

A linear power calibration is performed over a range of power levels for use in power sweep mode and is

performed at a specified frequency or frequency range.

External Power Meter

Both calibrations are performed using an external power meter over the dedicated GPIB port.

Embedding/De-embedding

The MS4640A is equipped with an Embedding/De-embedding system.

De-embedding

De-embedding is generally used for removal of test fixture contributions, modeled networks and other

networks described by S-parameters (s2p files) from measurements. An extraction utility is part of this

package that allows the easier computation of de-embedding files based on some additional calibration

steps and measurements.

Embedding

Similarly, the Embedding function can be used to simulate matching circuits for optimizing amplifier

designs or simply adding effects of a known structure to a measurement.

Multiple Networks

Multiple networks can be embedded/de-embedded and changing the port and network orientations is

handled easily.

Impedance Conversion

Allows entry of different impedances (complex values) for different ports.