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The Temporal Gearbox

Optics 2017-11-21 v2 Instrumentation and Detectors

Abstract

We are inspired by mechanical gearboxes and demonstrate its analog counterpart in optics. We use nonlinear dispersion modes as "gears" to overcome the mismatch between the ultrahigh speed of optical data and the much slower sampling rate of electronic digitizers and processors. We delineate the mathematical foundations and show its utility in ultrafast optical measurements and digital image compression.

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@article{arxiv.1612.04562,
  title  = {The Temporal Gearbox},
  author = {Bahram Jalali and Jacky C. K. Chan and Ata Mahjoubfar and Daniel R. Solli and Mohammad H. Asghari},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.04562},
  year   = {2017}
}

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