ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates experimentally the properties of the nonlinear transmission line (NLTL) and the electrical soliton. It demonstrates that the pulses in the NLTL are indeed solitons, and demonstrates the explicit link between Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) soliton theory and the NLTL lattice. The chapter details the practical implementation of the KdV and NLTL soliton theory. It reviews the few solutions for the NLTL and KdV systems. The chapter demonstrates the transformations between the theory and the experimental measurements. It characterizes the NLTL used in the experiments, in particular the component parameters. The chapter demonstrates the power of the inverse scattering method for determining the sharpening of a pulse. It shows the damping of electrical solitons on the NLTL. Finally, the chapter describes inaccuracies of simulations of the NLTL using soliton damping as an example case.
