Technique Employing Inductive Coupler for Propagation Constant Extraction on Power Cables with Twisted Screen Wires

This paper investigates a new propagation constant measuring technique in which an inductive coupler allows only the selected part of the cable to be measured. The propagation constants are extracted from frequency and time domain measurements. The extracted propagation constants from measurements with an inductive coupler are compared with the reference propagation constant obtained from direct measurements on the cable. The dependence of the extracted propagation constant accuracy on the measured cable part length is investigated.