A Non-Linear Transmission Line with Secondary Soliton Decimation

In this paper, we present the design of a nonlinear transmission line (NLTL) that decimates the secondary soliton using a geometric tapering technique while maintaining the Gaussian pulse shape of the input. The experimental results demonstrate that this NLTL sharpens an input pulse with a 1.8 GHz 20-dB bandwidth to a 4.40 GHz bandwidth with a secondary soliton that is only 10% of the peak pulse amplitude.