Bluetest OTA Test System

Reverberation Chamber Technology

A reverberation chamber is essentially a large reflective enclosure, or cavity, that will resonate when signals are introduced into it. These resonances makes microwave signals reverberate, similar to how sound reverberate in an enclosure.

As signals bounce off the walls and objects in the chamber they interfere. This constructive and destructive interference of multiple signal reflections form cavity modes. A reverberation chamber adds special stirring functions to move the points of constructive and destructive interference around in the chamber. By proper stirring, multipath fading effects can be distributed in a statistically well defined and repeatable way inside the chamber. This multipath fading environment is particularly appropriate to today’s small, multi-purpose and high data rate wireless devices.