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Abstract

Based on space-time duality and through the use of temporal dispersive delay lines, this paper presents a demonstration of temporal cloaking/uncloaking at microwave frequencies. Numerical simulations of pulse generation, continuous wave signal recovery and data recovery are discussed in relation to the proposed system architecture. This paper also suggests a practical means for implementation of real time dual temporal cloaking/uncloaking. Compared to traditional signal processing systems, since the recovered data emerges with a reversed form in time domain before its final decoding, an extra operation named time-reversal is needed to obtain the correct data, which could help protect the significant signals better with the proposed temporal cloaking/uncloaking system. The proposed method and achieved results indicate potential application in secure communications and data multiplexing subject to channel bandwidth requirements.

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