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Nature Photonics 3, 562 - 564 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2009.180
Silicon photonics: Beating the electronics bottleneck
David J. Richardson1
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David J. Richardson is in the Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton S017 1BJ, UK.
e-mail: djr@orc.soton.ac.uk
Abstract
The use of cascaded nonlinear silicon waveguides that function as 'time lenses' is providing new opportunities for generating and measuring ultrafast optical waveforms.
