“…The temporal Talbot effect, in particular, can be fruitfully employed in many ultrafast applications, such as integer, fractional, and arbitrary repetition rate multiplication (RRM) 4 , 5 , 16 , broadband full-field invisibility 17 , and noiseless intensity amplification 18 . Among these, RRM is highly appealing, especially in the case of extra-cavity scenarios like optical communications 19 , passive amplification 20 , and microwave photonics 21 , where it can be implemented by spectral amplitude and/or phase filtering 2 , 3 , 5 , 7 , 12 , 22 – 24 and provides a train of high-repetition-rate pulses that is hard to achieve in intra-cavity geometries. Besides the commonly studied temporal Talbot effect of bright pulse trains, the mixing Talbot patterns of dark pulse trains at higher RRMs was also recently investigated 7 .…”