Photorefractive joint transform correlator using incoherent erasure in two- and four-wave mixing geometries in a BaTiO3 crystal

Optical Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 2148-2155

  Tripathi, Renu ^b,c   Pati, G S ^b,d   Singh, Kehar ^a,b,e  

^a European Electrooptics   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^c KUMAUN UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d UTKAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^e Indian Chapter of ICTP   (India)

Author keywords

Incoherent erasure; Joint transform correlator; Photorefractive crystal

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037562671     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601718     Document Type: Article

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