Experimental demonstration of data erasure for time-domain optical memories

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 805-811

  Dyke, T R ^a   Sellars, M J ^a   Pryde, G J ^a   Manson, N B ^a   Elman, U ^b   Kroll S ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LUND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYE LASERS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

DATA ERASURE;

OPTICAL DATA STORAGE;

EID: 4243914711     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.16.000805     Document Type: Article

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