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Nature Photonics 3, 8 - 10 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2008.261
Silicon photonics: Silicon's time lens
B. Jalali1, D. R. Solli1 & S. Gupta1
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B. Jalali, D. R. Solli and S. Gupta are in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, 420 Westwood Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.
e-mail: Jalali@ucla.edu
Abstract
How can we capture ultrafast optical signals in real time? A time lens is one possibility — able to image the temporal profile of a short optical signal, analogous to a conventional lens. Such a device has now been created on a silicon chip.
