1 January 2002 Legacy of optical information processing
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Optical information processing can perform a myriad of signal processing operations. It is primarily due to the complex amplitude processing capability. Optical information processors are capable of performing one- or two-dimensional operations using simple linear operators. However, it would not happen without the support of coherent property of illumination. We discuss the coherent optical complex transformation, by which information data processing can be exploited. A brief scan of Fourier and spatial domain processing, composite filtering, larger capacity photorefractive processing, optical neural computing, and others is shown.
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Francis T. S. Yu "Legacy of optical information processing," Optical Engineering 41(1), (1 January 2002). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1428737
Published: 1 January 2002
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KEYWORDS
Optical signal processing

Neurons

Optical filters

Data processing

Target detection

Spatial filters

Electronic filtering

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