ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the concept of the electrical soliton oscillator. It begins with a brief description of the general topology, and discusses the difficulties with constructing a stable electrical soliton oscillator using standard techniques. The amplifier should possess at least the following three capabilities: Distortion reduction, Perturbation rejection and Single mode selection. The critical difference in the amplifier is that instead of allowing the nonlinearity to destabilize the oscillation, take advantage of it to provide stability. The bias of the amplifier is adjusted by using the change in DC component of the output, the oscillation grows from a low amplitude signal at start-up to a large signal, pulse-based oscillation in steady state. The chapter discusses how the nonlinear transfer function of the amplifier together with the movable bias scheme allows to simultaneously meet the three stability requirements.
