The new methodology employs types of multipliers as switches which may have intrinsic bandwidths of many Gigahertz and because they are designed to be high frequency components have very small internal capacitances. The nonlinearity inherent in the multiplication process will “speed up” the pulse edges giving some additional pulse width compression. A rectangular pulse of <700ps duration with a peak power of 23dBm, and a non-rectangular pulse of the same amplitude and <300ps duration have been generated. Both these pulses had a 1:1 mark space ratio.