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Annual Meeting Optical Society of America

Thin atomic Cs vapor as a nonlinear optical medium

B. Ai, David S. Glassner, R. J. Knize, J. P. Partanen, R. W. Hellwarth

Published Jan 1, 1993• 0 citations
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Abstract

Nonlinear optics using the four-wave-mixing geometry can be used for image processing, such as computing the correlation function of two images.
DOI
10.1364/oam.1993.mhh.6

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