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Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE

Fast optical recording and photonic switching at room temperature using KCl:LiF A centers

J. Luostarinen, Kai-Erik Peiponen∥, Pertti Silfsten

Published Nov 19, 1993• 0 citations
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Abstract

In this paper we describe a fiber optic system which was used for information reading from the FA center temporary memory. The fiber optic system was used to replace the probe wave of the spectrophotometer used in earlier studies.
DOI
10.1117/12.162802

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