Reflection soliton oscillator

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2344-2353

  Yildirim, O Ozgur ^a   Ricketts, David S ^b   Ham, Donhee ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrical solitons; Mode locked oscillators; Nonlinear transmission lines (NLTLs); Oscillators; Pulse oscillators; Solitons

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL SOLITONS; MODE-LOCKED OSCILLATORS; NONLINEAR TRANSMISSION LINES (NLTLS); OSCILLATORS; PULSE OSCILLATORS;

BANDPASS FILTERS; ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SOLITONS; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

ELECTRIC GENERATORS;

EID: 70350187081     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2009.2029025     Document Type: Article

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