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Re: Non-Linear Transmission Lines (NLTLs) as pulse-forming Shocklines

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On Tue, 05 May 2026 12:30:27 GMT, Glen Walpert <nospam@null.void>
wrote:

>On Mon, 04 May 2026 20:24:43 -0400, joegwinn wrote:
>
>> There was some talk of using NLTLs to form impulses suitable for driving
>> signal samplers for such applications as VNAs and TDRs, and I mentioned
>> Holzworth Instruments (Jason Breitbarth) in the "tiny 1200v SiC diode"
>> thread circa 27 April 2026.
>> 
>> There are two critical documents, Breitbarth's PhD 2006 Thesis and a
>> 2017 paper co-written by Breitbarth and his PhD Thesis Director Zoya
>> Popovic, both at the University of Colorado at Aurora CO.
>> 
>> Both documents may obtained gratis from Professor Popovic's publications
>> page:
>> 
>> .<https://www.colorado.edu/faculty/popovic-zoya/publications>
>> 
>> The PhD thesis leaves a critical detail out, exactly how the needed
>> nearly noiseless control voltage is generated.  In 2006, this was a
>> loose end.  The answer was published ~10 years later, with Popovic.
>> 
>> Joe
>
>Thanks for posting this.  IIRC there was some discussion of NLTLs here 
>involving someone from Picosecond Pulse Labs (since aquired by Tektronix) 
>around Dec 2014 when I first downloaded Breitbarth's thesis.  The second 
>paper is new to me.

I kind recall that discussion.  May have been around when Larkin
poosted a bunch of pictures of Agoston's waveguide sampler.

Breitbarth worked at Picosecond Pulse Labs for a while.

Joe

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