All-optical spatial filtering with power limiting materials

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1451-1457

  Yelleswarapu, Chandra S ^a   Wu, Pengfei ^a   Kothapalli, Sri Rajasekhar ^a   Rao, D V G L N ^a   Kimball, Brian R ^b   Sai, S Siva Sankara ^c   Gowrishankar, R ^c   Sivaramakrishnan, S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^b DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING CENTER   (United States)

^c SRI SATHYA SAI INSTITUTE OF HIGHER LEARNING   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHOTODETECTORS; PORPHYRINS;

ALL-OPTICAL FOURIER IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTICAL IMAGE PROCESSING;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 33144467468     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.001451     Document Type: Article

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