Experimental demonstration of the holographic incoherent-erasure joint-transform correlator

Optical Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 2392-2399

  Asimellis, George ^a,b,d   Khoury, Jehad ^{a,b,c,e,f,g,h}   Woods, Charles L ^a,b,c  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SPIE   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^e HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^g U Mass Lowell University   (United States)

^h Lartec Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

All optical joint transform correlator; Holographic erasure; Nonlinear

Indexed keywords

EID: 0348005725     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601493     Document Type: Article

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