Hybrid (Optical/Electronic) Computing and Digital Computing

Abstract

The program consists of two areas of optical information processing: (i) optical-analog/electronic hybrid computing for optical image processing, optical pattern recognition and solution of partial differential equations, and (ii) nonlinear optical devices and digital optical computing. The optical-analog/electronic digital hybrid system consist of an analog optical processor with input/output interfaces to a microcomputer. The analog optical processor is employed to perform time consuming computations, while the logical decisions and controls are provided by an electronic microcomputer. For image processing we have implemented, with hybrid systems, numerous space-variant transformations (e.g., Hough transform for detection of high-order parametric curves, coordinate transform for rotation and scale invariant feature extraction, etc.).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA197722

Entities

People

  • Sing H. Lee

Organizations

  • University of California, San Diego

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computers
  • Detection
  • Differential Equations
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Feature Extraction
  • Hybrid Systems
  • Image Processing
  • Information Processing
  • Laser Applications
  • Optical Images
  • Optical Interconnects
  • Optical Processing
  • Partial Differential Equations
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Recognition

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Computer Vision.
  • Quantum Dot Semiconductor Device Photonics and Graphene Optoelectronic Materials and THz Physics.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • Microelectronics
  • Space