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

Optical associative memories based on time-delayed four-wave mixing

M. Belov, Eduard A. Manykin

Published Nov 1, 1991• 0 citations
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Abstract

Possibilities of time-delayed four wave mixing for implementation of associative memory systems in optics are theoretically investigated. Optical architectures based on this phenomenon are proposed. Advantages of the time-domain approach to associative memory implementation are discussed.
DOI
10.1117/12.50434

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