Passive Optics No-Moving-Parts Barcode Scanners

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 954-956

  Yaqoob, Zahid ^a   Riza, Nabeel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Barcode reading; Beam scanners; Eye safe operation; Wavelength multiplexing

Indexed keywords

BAR CODES; DATA REDUCTION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; IMAGE CODING; INFRARED RADIATION; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

BEAM SCANNERS; EYE-SAFE OPERATION; PASSIVE OPTICS; WAVELENGTH MULTIPLEXING;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 1642602700     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.823749     Document Type: Article

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