Patent ID: 8004120

Claim:
A bipolar pulse generator comprising: a stacked Blumlein charging structure including n identically first charged transmission lines with switches at their near ends, and n oppositely charged second transmission lines with the same length and characteristic impedances as for the first transmission lines; an addition non-charged transmission line connected at its near end to an output of the charging structure and at its distal end to a load; and a further transmission line connected at its near end to the load and short-circuited at its distal end; wherein the additional non-charged transmission line has a specified electrical length t1 and characteristic impedance equal to 2nZ0, where Z0 is a characteristic impedance of each of the first charged transmission lines and the second charged transmission lines, the load impedance is equal to nZ0, and the characteristic impedance of the further transmission line is the same as the additional non-charged transmission line.