Calibration of loop antennas using a contactless vector network analysis method

The well-established calibration techniques for loop antennas have in common that either some parts of the antenna design or the field pattern of a standard field must be well known or fully theoretically describable. In this paper a pure metrological approach, circumventing these requirements is introduced and verified. It is based on a generic two port network model for loop antennas and a traceable contactless vector network analysis method.