Temporal Imaging

Discussion

Using the well-known analogy between the problems of paraxial diffraction in space and dispersion in time we have developed and demonstrated components and techniques which permit us to manipulate the temporal profile of optical waveforms. These techniques represent temporal imaging. A system which is completely analogous to a spatial imaging and has the ability to magnify or compress the time scale of an arbitrary waveform using time lenses and dispersion in place of spatial lenses and diffraction (propagation).

Figure 1. (a) Conventional single lens spatial imaging system and (b) its temporal analog, a temporal imaging system.

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TeraHertz Pulse Research