A baseband soliton oscillator

A loop of nonlinear transmission line and a single lumped amplifier are used to form an oscillator. The oscillation modes correspond to the soliton, cnoidal and double cnoidal solutions of the Korteweg-de Vries equation. The device is studied via experiment, computer simulation, and an inhomogeneous partial differential equation. The average soliton concept is applied to analyse the steady state in each case.