SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF LOSSY COUPLED TRANSMISSION-LINES WITH NONLINEAR TERMINATIONS

An analysis method is described for the evaluation of the time domain sensitivity of nonlinear networks which include lossy coupled transmis sion lines. The method combines a linear sensitivity analysis method b ased on the numerical inversion of Laplace transform with the piecewis e decomposition technique. The sensitivity can be calculated with resp ect to network components and parameters of the transmission lines. Se nsitivity analysis is useful for waveform shaping and optimization. Ex amples and comparisons with sensitivity determined by perturbation are presented.