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Nature Photonics 3, 8–10 (1 January 2009) | doi:10.1038/nphoton.2008.261

Silicon photonics: Silicon's time lens

B. Jalali , D. R. Solli & S. Gupta

Ultrafast, transient phenomena harbour a wealth of fascinating science that normally lies hidden from view. Conventional sampling oscilloscopes operate like a strobe light, missing short, non-repetitive events as they operate not in real time, but in equivalent time.