The use of cascaded nonlinear silicon waveguides that function as 'time lenses' is providing new opportunities for generating and measuring ultrafast optical waveforms.
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Richardson, D. Beating the electronics bottleneck. Nature Photon 3, 562–564 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2009.180
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