THE USE OF HOLOGRAPHIC SUBTRACTION IN THE OPTICAL PROCESSNG OF RECONNAISSANCE DATA.

Abstract

A technique is designed to subtract an undesired portion of an image from a given optical scene. A wave reconstructed from a hologram is shifted in phase by pi radians relative to the wave originally stored; thus, if two nearly-identical images of an input plane, one derived from a hologram and the other a direct image, are superimposed upon each other at a viewing screen, the identical portions of the images are canceled, and the difference between the two is displayed. The method has been verified experimentally for both binary and continuous-tone transparencies. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 23, 1969
Accession Number
AD0701327

Entities

People

  • B. J. Thompson
  • J. F. Bryant
  • K. Bromley
  • M. A. Monahan

Organizations

  • Naval Information Warfare Systems Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Avionics
  • Holograms
  • Photographic Materials
  • Photography
  • Reconnaissance
  • Screens (Displays)
  • Transparencies

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.