Enforcing deterministic polarisation in a reverberating environment

Abstract

A report is presented on a technique for generating coherently-polarised pulsed fields within highly reverberating environments. The ability of doing so is predicted theoretically, showing that the purity of the polarisation of the electromagnetic field does not depend on the cross-polarisation rejection of the source antenna, but only on the well-known depolarisation properties of standard reverberation chambers. Experimental results are provided, proving that the theoretical model is sound, thus validating the first technique for generating a coherent arbitrarily polarised field in a reverberating environment.