Space-Variant Optical Systems.

Abstract

Both analytical and experimental investigations of 1-D and 2-D coherent and incoherent space-variant optical processors have been conducted. The investigations included: (1) investigation of an improved measure of the degree of invariance of a linear system and its applications to piecewise isoplanatic space-variant systems; (2) a process for generalized linear filtering of 1-D signals; (3) investigation of a very fast architecture for performing optical multiplication of binary numbers and (4) techniques for both linear and nonlinear space-variant processing based on the bilinear transform. Keywords: Space-Variant Optical Computing; Numerical Optical Processing; Optical Interconnections; Computer-Generated Holograms; Optical Cross-bar switches.(author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADA167275

Entities

People

  • John F. Walkup
  • Thomas F. Krile

Organizations

  • Texas Tech University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Charge Coupled Devices
  • Classification
  • Computer Science
  • Crystal Structure
  • Digital Images
  • Engineering
  • Filtration
  • Image Processing
  • Intensity
  • Linear Filtering
  • Linear Systems
  • Liquid Crystals
  • Notation
  • Optical Interconnects
  • Optical Processing
  • Security
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Engineering
  • Physics

Readers

  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Space Objects