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Recent advances on time-stretch dispersive Fourier transform and its applications

Thomas Godina CORIA, CNRS UMR 6614, Université de Rouen Normandie, Rouen, FranceORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7209-0979View further author information
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Lynn Saderb Xlim Research Institute, CNRS UMR 7252, Université de Limoges, Limoges, FranceORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2604-1831View further author information
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Anahita Khodadad Kashic Institute of Photonics, Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Germany;d Cluster of Excellence PhoenixD (Photonics, Optics, and Engineering - Innovation Across Disciplines), Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, GermanyORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9454-1718View further author information
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Pierre-Henry Hanzarde Emergent Photonics Laboratory (EPic), Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Brighton, UKORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7284-5315View further author information
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Ammar Hideura CORIA, CNRS UMR 6614, Université de Rouen Normandie, Rouen, FranceORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-4357-7032View further author information
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Roberto Morandottig Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications (INRS-EMT), Varennes, Québec, CanadaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7717-1519View further author information
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John M. Dudleyi Institut FEMTO-ST, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté CNRS UMR 6174, Besançon, FranceORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9520-9699View further author information
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Article: 2067487 | Received 02 Mar 2022, Accepted 14 Apr 2022, Published online: 11 May 2022

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