Time Domain Objective Function Based on Euclidean Distance Matrix and its Application in Optimization of Short Pulse Power Divider

A time domain objective function based on the normalized Euclidean distance (NED) matrix of general short pulse network is proposed and is employed to optimize a short pulse power divider (PD). The NED matrix is obtained directly from the time domain port signals, which describes the performance of the short pulse networks comprehensively and compactly. Frobenius norm of the difference between the non-optimal and the optimal NED matrix is used as the objective function in the optimization. A short pulse PD is optimized using the proposed NED matrix based objective function and then fabricated. The feasibility and effectiveness of the NED matrix based objective function are validated by the opti mization procedure and the measured results of the short pulse PD.