Reverberation Chamber Theory

This course is designed for engineers and technicians who will be involved in radiated emission or immunity testing of commercial or military systems using reverberation chambers. The course will also be valuable to personnel evaluating the use of reverberation chambers as a complement to or replacement for other types of radiated test facilities. This comprehensive course will provide an awareness of all aspects of usage of reverberation chambers for EMC testing as a route to compliance.

The theory portion covers the statistical nature of reverberation chamber testing, characterization of the EM test conditions, and the tradeoff between uncertainty in test results and test time. The experimental portion includes demonstrations, test setups and instrumentation, statistical sampling techniques (mechanical tuner operation and frequency sweeps), and chamber characterization and calibration measurements.