Acoustooptic Processing of Two Dimensional Signals Using Temporal and Spatial Integration

Abstract

Acoustopic signal processing architectures and methods are developed for a variety of 2-D problems. A formulation of the universe synthetic aperture radar problem as an energy minimization procedure is reported. Acoustopic systems for multiple target detection and 2-D spectrum analysis are experimentally demonstrated. The application of acoustopics to the adaptive beam-forming for broadband antenna arrays is described.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 12, 1989
Accession Number
ADA208686

Entities

People

  • Dave Brady
  • Demetri Psaltis
  • Fai Mok
  • Jeff Yu
  • John Hong
  • Mark Neifeld
  • Nabeel Riza
  • Scott Hudson

Organizations

  • California Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

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

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acousto-Optic Equipment
  • Acousto-Optic Modulators
  • Computational Science
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Diffraction
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Modulation
  • Modulators
  • Optical Correlators
  • Optics
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Refractive Index
  • Signal Processing
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • Two Dimensional
  • Video Images

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Astronomy/Astrophysics
  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • Radar Systems Engineering.