Storage and retrieval of ghost images in hot atomic vapor

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 5809-5816

  Cho, Young Wook ^a   Oh, Joo Eon ^a   Kim, Yoon Ho ^a  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; QUANTUM COMMUNICATION; RUBIDIUM;

ALL-OPTICAL; ATOMIC VAPOR; CORRELATION MEASUREMENT; CORRELATION PROPERTIES; GHOST IMAGE; GHOST IMAGING; IMAGING INFORMATION; MULTIMODES; RUBIDIUM VAPOR; SECOND ORDERS; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; STORAGE AND RETRIEVALS; TWO BEAMS; TWO PHOTON IMAGING;

VAPORS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; GAS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; GASES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84857561830     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.005809     Document Type: Article

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