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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 1991
Filed:
Feb. 16, 1989
Hua-Kuang Liu, South Pasadena, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for generation of second-rank tensors using a photorefractive crystal to perform the outer-product between two vectors via four-wave mixing, thereby taking 2n input data to a control n.sup.2 output data points. Two orthogonal amplitude modulated coherent vector beams x and y are expanded and then collimated before directing them onto two opposing parallel sides of the photorefractive crystal in exact opposition. A beamsplitter is used to direct a coherent pumping beam onto the crystal at an appropriate angle so as to produce a conjugate beam that is the matrix product of the vector beams x and y, and to separate the resulting conjugate beam that propagates in the exact opposite direction from the pumping beam. The conjugate beam thus separated is the tensor output xy.sup.T.