Design and Construction of an Arbitrary Pulse Compressive Amplifier

Compressive pulse amplifiers are a class of amplifiers that convert long low amplitude signals into very broadband pulses of high amplitude, yielding a very high instantaneous peak power output pulse. However, in the realm of electronic immunity and susceptibility testing, very broadband short pulses are not always desired. This work presents a design for a compressive amplifier that is aimed at creating arbitrary pulsed signals of varying bandwidths. Limitations of the achievable gain and methods used are discussed.