Three & Four Product Surface-Wave Acousto-Optic Time Integrating Correlators.

Abstract

This abstract discloses a method and device for processing spread-spectrum and other wideband communications and radar signals to obtain three and four product correlated signals. A laser beam is split and shaped into first and second sheet beams. The first beam is directed to a first acousto-optic medium where it is doubly diffracted by first and second signals. The second beam is directed to a second acousto-optic medium which is spatially rotated 90 degs relative to the first acousto-optic medium where the second sheet beam is either singly diffracted by a third signal or doubly diffracted by a third signal and a fourth signal. The diffracted sheet beams are shaped into square beams, combined and directed to a photodiode area array.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 02, 1981
Accession Number
ADD008988

Entities

People

  • Irwin J. Abramovitz
  • Michael W. Casseday
  • Norman J. Berg

Organizations

  • United States Army

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Electromagnetic Wave Scattering and Antenna Radiation Engineering
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy