Electrical transmission lines as models for soliton propagation in material: Part I. Elementary aspects of video solitons.

The study of nonlinear wave propagation along distributed electrical and mechanical transmission lines is important because these lines serve as useful models for nonlinear wave motion with dispersion has been shown to produce solitons in optical fibers. Electrical distributed lines themselves have an obvious direct application to integrated circuit parametric amplifiers, harmonic generators and shock wave generators for pulse shaping. They also have applications to secret or secure coding systems using two soliton interactions and to data transmission using solitons.