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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR)

Role Of Optics And Photonics In Encryption, Anti-counterfeiting, And Security Systems

Bahram Javidi

Published Aug 24, 2005• 0 citations
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10.1109/cleopr.1997.610347

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