Nonlinear Optical Dynamic Range Compression with Thin-Film Organic Photorefractive Material

Abstract

Nonlinear information processing via two-beam coupling using thin-film organic photorefractive material is demonstrated. The organic material is found to possess superior response time and resolution compared to photorefractive bulk material. The possibility of designing dynamic range compression deconvolution for restoring blurred images embedded in a noisy environment is also demonstrated

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 30, 2009
Accession Number
ADA538156

Entities

People

  • Bahareh Haji-saeed
  • Charles Woods
  • Jed Khoury
  • John Kierstead
  • Nasser Peyghambarian

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Bulk Materials
  • Compression
  • Dynamic Range
  • Energy Transfer
  • Films
  • Frequency
  • Image Restoration
  • Information Processing
  • Materials
  • Optical Modulators
  • Organic Materials
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Photorefractive Materials
  • Signal Processing
  • Thin Films
  • Wave Mixing

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Materials Science and Engineering.