Here a metal slug can be lowered into the slabline changing the impedance of a section of transmission line and mostly affects the magnitude of the reflection coefficient while moving the metal slug a...Here a metal slug can be lowered into the slabline changing the impedance of a section of transmission line and mostly affects the magnitude of the reflection coefficient while moving the metal slug along the line mostly affects the phase. If the system reference or normalization impedance is the characteristic impedance of a transmission line, then the locus of the input impedance (or reflection coefficient) of the line with respect to the length of
