Fig. 1 A. The schematic of the FDML OEO utilizing a 1 km-long single mode fiber (SMF), which is realized by a TFLN photonic integrated chip (PIC) consisting of a Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM), an ...

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Over at Quanta Magazine [Shalma Wegsman] asks What Is the Fourier Transform? [Shalma] begins by telling you a little about Joseph Fourier, the French mathematician with an interest in heat propagation ...

Amid the chaos of revolutionary France, one man’s mathematical obsession gave way to a calculation that now underpins much of mathematics and physics. The calculation, called the Fourier transform, ...