Warped time lens in temporal imaging for optical real-time data compression

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 59, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 2649-2654

  Asghari, Mohammad H ^a   Jalali, Bahram ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Engineering IV   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anamorphic stretch transform; Big data; Warped dispersive Fourier transform; Warped temporal imaging

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903520492     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-014-0352-0     Document Type: Article

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