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Test Your EQ #152— Answer

Answer 8

An infinite return loss means that all of the energy is absorbed by the load, so the answer is C. Matched.

Return loss (RL) is given by the expression

RL = –20 log r dB,

r is the reflection coefficient, given by

r =

|Vr|
____
|Vi|

where |Vr| is the magnitude of reflected wave voltage and |Vi| is the magnitude of the incident wave voltage.

For a matched load/termination,

r =

|Vr|
____
|Vi|

=

0
___
|Vi|

=

0

 

Contributor: M.K. Suvarnakumar

Published March 2003

   

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