Table 1 Comparison of temporal cloak experiments

From: Field-programmable silicon temporal cloak

Ref

Mechanism

Key element

FP

CCW (ps)

Photonic integration

14

Split time lens

HNLF

No

50

No

15

Temporal Talbot effect

PM

No

36

No

6

Temporal Talbot effect

PM

No

No

24

Pulse compression

PM

No

88

No

21

Inverse temporal Talbot effect

PM

No

196

No

This work

Swept-frequency time lens

ET-MRR

Yes

3365

Yes

  1. FP field-programmable, CCW continuously cloaking window