White-Light Optical Information Processing and Holography.

Abstract

Explored is the possibility of using natural solar light for Holographic image processing. The advantage of this technique is the processing system does not require to carry its own light source. It is very suitable for spaceborne and satellite application. Developed is a technique of measuring the noise performance of a white light processor. A programmable Magneto-optic spatial light modulator is applied to white light signal processing. The MOSLM responds to polarized light, which offers the advantage of color coding signal processing. The most important aspect of this device must be the programmability, for which a real time programmable optical processor can be realized in practice. A technique is developed for generating a Fourier transform hologram with a white light source. This technique is very suitable for reconstructing color hologram images with white-light processing. So is a technique of generating a spatial frequency color coded speech spectrogram with a white light optical system. This system not only offers a low cost alternative but also eliminated the complicated programming procedure with digital counterpart. A spatial encoding technique is developed for color image retrieval so that the annoying moire fringes can be eliminated.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 29, 1985
Accession Number
ADA170224

Entities

People

  • Francis T. Yu

Organizations

  • Pennsylvania State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Coding
  • Color Film
  • Computer Programming
  • Data Processing
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Image Processing
  • Image Reconstruction
  • Information Processing
  • Light Sources
  • Measurement
  • Optical Modulators
  • Optics
  • Photographic Film
  • Processing Equipment
  • Signal Processing
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.

Technology Areas

  • Space