Compact optical imaging system for arrays of optical thyristors

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 14, 1997, Pages 3070-3076

  Kirk, Andrew ^a,e   Goulet, Alain ^a   Thienpont, Hugo ^a   McArdle, Neil ^c,f   Brenner, Karl Heinz ^c,g   Kuijk, Maarten ^b   Heremans, Paul ^d   Veretennicoff, Irina ^a  

^a Laboratory for Photonic Computing and Perception   (United States)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d IMEC   (Belgium)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

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EID: 0001304590     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.003070     Document Type: Article

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