A Radiophysical Complex for Studying the Influence of the Propagation Environment on Orthogonally Polarized Electromagnetic Waves

A radiophysical complex is considered for studying the influence of the propagation environment on orthogonally linearly polarized electromagnetic waves with horizontal and vertical polarizations. The radiophysical complex made it possible to register the quadrature components of the received orthogonally polarized signals and to calculate the amplitudes and phases of the signals and their polarization characteristics from them. Electromagnetic waves were emitted with equal amplitudes, initial phases, and wavelengths from two points spatially separated in the horizontal plane. In the framework of the two-vibrator scattering model, an analytical expression for the scattering operator is obtained, which makes it possible to estimate the differential characteristics of the propagation medium. The relationship between the model parameters and the obtained experimental estimates of the polarization characteristics of the received orthogonally linearly polarized signals on a surface path with a length of 8 km is confirmed.