Final Report,
Abstract
The research performed under the contracts has spanned the fields of image formation, optical information processing, and holography. In this final report on the contracts, we first summarize the research accomplishments of the past contract year (section II). Attention is then turned to an overview of the accomplishments of the entire ten years of support (section III). Major emphasis during the past year has been on the development of new methods for extremely fast, fully parallel, incoherent optical data processing systems. While most coherent optical data processors require information to be input onto a real-time (electronic or electrooptic) transparency in a serial or time-sequential fashion, incoherent processors offer the possibility of fully parallel data input at enormous speeds. The particular approach to incoherent optical processing formulated and partially demonstrated by us during the past year is summarized in the Appendix, which is a pre-print of an article to appear in Optics Letters in January 1978.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 31, 1977
- Accession Number
- ADA052691
Entities
People
- Joseph W. Goodman
Organizations
- Stanford University