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What is a polarisation efficiency?

  • A.The fraction of incident power a receiving antenna can accept given the mismatch
  • B.The proportion of the transmitted power radiated in the wanted polarisation
  • C.The ratio of the cross polar to the co-polar gain of an antenna
  • D.The efficiency with which a polariser converts linear to circular polarisation

Answer: A

When the incident and receiving polarisations differ, only part of the available power is captured, and that fraction is the polarisation efficiency, unity for a perfect match and zero for orthogonal linear polarisations. A linear antenna in a circular field captures half, which is the familiar three decibel loss. The other options describe cross polar discrimination and component performance. A mismatch loss that depends only on the geometry of two vectors is easy to compute once it is recognised as such.

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