Implementation of a photorefractive arithmetic logic unit for multiwavelength information processing

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 2549-2557

  Wu, Weishu ^a   Campbell, Scott ^a   Yeh, Pochi ^a,b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b ROCKWELL SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 0030503512     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.13.002549     Document Type: Article

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