Velocity Filtering using Complementary Gratings in Photorefractive BSO,

Abstract

Motion detection, velocity filtering and the detection of change in a given scene are all important aspects for optical processing architectures and systems. So far several different techniques have been reported in the literature that use either all optical or hybrid (optical plus electronic) schemes to implement novelty filter type operations. The electronic techniques however may have only limited applications due to the sequential ature of the process. For essentially all-optical schemes the intrinsic advantages of parallel image subtraction are clear. In this paper we report a different scheme for motion detection and velocity filtering which uses two spatially multiplexed gratings with a relative phase shift of 180 degrees, (known as complementary gratings). Such grating recording has already been implemented in a lithium niobate crystal.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 22, 1992
Accession Number
ADP006789

Entities

People

  • Ghazanfar Hussain
  • Robert W. Eason

Organizations

  • University of Southampton

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Detection
  • Filters
  • Filtration
  • Literature
  • Lithium
  • Lithium Niobates
  • Massachusetts
  • Materials
  • Niobates
  • Optical Processing
  • Phase Shift
  • Photorefractive Materials
  • Piezoceramics

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Control Systems Engineering.
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems