Effects of saturation on the nonlinear incoherent-erasure joint-transform correlator

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1345-1356

  Asimellis, George ^a   Khoury, Jehad ^b   Woods, Charles ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 0001290164     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.13.001345     Document Type: Article

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