Abstract

A substantial amount of work has been devoted to the development of nonlinear optical techniques for compressing ultrashort optical pulses to even shorter durations. To our knowledge, the possibility of developing analogous techniques for compressing picosecond and subpicosecond electrical pulses has not yet been considered. Although loaded nonlinear transmission lines have been used to propagate electrical soliton and shock-type waves, these techniques have not yet been adapted to the picosecond time range.

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