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Optimal detection of ultra wideband (UWB) pulses in a UWB transceiver employing multiple detector types is proposed and analyzed in this paper. To enable the transceiver to be used for multiple applications, the designers have different types of detectors such as energy detector, amplitude detector, etc., built in to a single transceiver architecture. We propose several fusion techniques for fusing decisions made by individual IR-UWB detectors. In order to get early insight into theoretical achievable performance of these fusion techniques, we assess the performance of these fusion techniques for commonly used detector types like matched filter, energy detector and amplitude detector under Gaussian assumption. These are valid for ultra short distance communication and in UWB systems operating in millimeter wave (mmwave) band with high directivity gain. In this paper, we utilize the performance equations of different detectors, to device distinct fusion algorithms. We show that the performance can be improved approximately by 4 dB in terms of signal to noise ratio (SNR) for high probability of detection of a UWB signal (> 95%), by fusing decisions from multiple detector types compared to a standalone energy detector, in a practical scenario., QC 20161209