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7. How would one generate a train of identical pulses, each being 180

◦

out

of phase with the previous one?

8. Consider a bandwidth-limited pulse of duration τ

p

. Is it possible to generate

a temporal substructure with transients shorter than τ

p

with spectral

filtering? Explain your answer.

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