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Semiconductor injection lasers in correlative data processing systems

A. I. Zolotarev, V. A. Zubov, A. D. Kovalevskiĭ, A. V. Kraiski, V. I. Molochev, G. I. Semenov, T. T. Sultanov


Abstract: A description is given of a correlator utilizing a transient reference wave, double-beam interferometry, and photoelectric recording of output data. A single-frequency semiconductor injection laser is used as a light source. Such a correlator is a compact data-processing device in which the coherence requirements can be relaxed and in which light beams can be transformed differently in different channels.

UDC: 621.378.9:772.99

PACS: 42.30.Nt, 42.60.Kq, 89.80.+h

Received: 07.05.1979

 English version: Soviet Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1979, 9:11, 1454–1456