A time lens for photons (IMAGE)

Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science

A time lens for photons

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Like a magnifying glass zooming in on an object, a time lens can zoom in on time. In recent work, engineers at Columbia built a time lens to identify individual photons.

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Nicoletta Barolini

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