Sampling in de Branges Spaces and Naimark Dilation

We consider the problem of sampling in de Branges spaces and develop some necessary conditions and some sufficient conditions for sampling sequences, which generalize some well-known sampling results in the Paley-Wiener space. These conditions are obtained by identifying the main construction with Naimark dilation of frames--embedding the de Branges space into a larger de Branges space while embedding the kernel functions associated with a sampling sequence into a Riesz basis for the larger space.