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Time-varying photonics

Time interfaces for broadband coherent wave manipulation

Time-varying photonics offers ways to manipulate light–matter interactions as never thought before. An experiment with photonic time interfaces reveals how they can enable broadband coherent control of waves.

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Fig. 1: Spatial and temporal coherence control.

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Pacheco-Peña, V. Time interfaces for broadband coherent wave manipulation. Nat. Phys. 19, 1561–1562 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-023-02170-9

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