Edge enhancement and edge-enhanced correlation with photorefractive polymers

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 29, 2000, Pages 5337-5346

  Banerjee, Partha P ^a,b   Gad, Esam ^c   Hudson, Tracy ^d   McMillen, Deanna ^d,e   Abdeldayem, Hossin ^f   Frazier, Donald ^f   Matsushita, Kenji ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^b University of Dayton   (United States)

^c U S ARMY SPACE AND MISSILE DEFENSE COMMAND   (United States)

^d Aviation and Missile Development and Engineering Center   (United States)

^e Zebra Imaging   (United States)

^f NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^g Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; HOLOGRAMS; LIGHT; POLYMERS;

BEAM FANNING;

PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS;

EID: 0000619584     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.005337     Document Type: Article

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