Patent ID: 6061034
Filing Date: 2000-05-09
Classification: H01Q

Abstract:
An ultrawideband generator comprising a set of n voltage doubling Blumleins that produce an output signal that is approximately n times the output of a single Blumlein that produces a predetermined power and field strength of controlled bursts of modulated signals; a high voltage power source that produces a high voltage power signal; a power modulator which modulates the high voltage power signal from the high voltage power source to produce a modulated signal with predetermined characteristics that charges the set of Blumleins; a solid state optically triggered switch which conducts the modulated signal from the power modulator when triggered by an optical signal, said switch being selectively triggered to conduct the modulated signal at predetermined intervals for predetermined durations, and which outputs thereby controlled bursts of the modulated signals at predetermined power and field strength level; and a laser trigger which emits the optical signal onto the solid state optical switch at predetermined intervals and predetermined durations desired for the bursts of the modulated signals.