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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2016
Filed:
May. 10, 2012
Brad W. Hoff, Albuquerque, NM (US);
David Michael French, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Susan L. Heidger, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Brad W. Hoff, Albuquerque, NM (US);
David Michael French, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Susan L. Heidger, Albuquerque, NM (US);
The UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A dielectric-based nonlinear transmission line (NLTL) coupled to an adjacent waveguide. Energy in an input pulse to the nonlinear transmission line is concentrated into an electromagnetic shock or a series of soliton-like oscillations by the nonlinear properties of the NLTL. Energy from the electromagnetic shock or the soliton-like oscillations are transferred into the waveguide. A plate of the NLTL coupled to the waveguide can include an aperture or a series of apertures. Energy from the electromagnetic shock or the soliton-like oscillations can then be transferred into waveguide via an aperture or apertures in such a way that forward and/or backward guided electromagnetic waves are generated in the waveguide. The waveguide can contain at a nonlinear magnetic material, a dielectric material, a slow wave structure, or a metamaterial. The NLTL can include nonlinear dielectric elements such as a periodic array interspersed with linear dielectric elements.