Evaluation of a processing technique for transient data

A data processing technique, namely Prony's method, is evaluated. The use of the algorithm for EMP and other transient problems is illustrated and the relationship between the waveform parameterization and the singularity expansion method (SEM) is described. The impulse response of a synthesizer network is obtianed using Prony processing of the output of the double exponential excited circuit. Difficulties which arise in this type of processing such as rank deficiency, aliasing, and noise effects are considered and methods for alleviation such as filtering and rank-overspecification are introduced and evaluated. The overall status of waveform parameterization as applied to SEM is considered and suggestions for future research presented.