Comparison of Time Responses of a Meander Line Turn to Ultrashort Pulse Excitation.

The article presents the results of calculating time responses of a meander line (ML) turn to pulse excitation. The responses were calculated at the ML nodes analytically and numerically, and demonstrated coincidence. Besides, the created prototype of the ML turn was measured and showed good qualitative and acceptable quantitative agreement with the simulation results. Analytical models were found to be promising since they may significantly accelerate the design of such MLs in contrast to numerical methods which provide costly multivariate simulation of the time response during optimization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]