Optics Letters

Optical associative memory based on an echo correlator

M. Belov, Edward A. Manykin

Published Mar 1, 1991• 5 citations

Abstract

A physical principle of the associative-memory optical implementation by using the photon-echo effect is proposed. The properties inherent in this phenomenon permit an optical scheme similar to the nonlinear holographic associative memory [Appl. Opt. 26, 1900 (1987)] to be considered. The associative-memory system based on the photon-echo effect uses a temporal selectivity instead of a spatial one.

DOI: 10.1364/ol.16.000327

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