High-speed hybrid optical/digital correlator system

Rupert C. D. Young; Christopher R. Chatwin; Brian F. Scott

doi:10.1117/12.146387

1 October 1993 High-speed hybrid optical/digital correlator system

Rupert C. D. Young, Christopher R. Chatwin, Brian F. Scott

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 32, Issue 10, (October 1993). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.146387

Abstract

A hybrid optical/digital configuration to implement a highspeed correlator is described. The input data is digitally Fourier transformed at video rates utilizing specialized digital signal processing chip sets and the computed spectral phase data passed to an electrically addressed phase modulating spatial light modulator (SLM). Successive templates, which are stored as angle multiplexed volume holograms in a photorefractive crystal, are reconstructed and optically correlated with the current input scene during an interval in which the SLM display is held stable. In this way, shift invariance, one of the major advantages of the correlation technique, is preserved. Of critical importance to the speed of operation are the energy losses of the coherent wavefront through the system and the rate at which correlation plane data can be converted to an electronic signal; both of these issues are considered to estimate that at least a 3-kHz search rate is achievable from a 1000 template memory with system components currently available.

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Rupert C. D. Young, Christopher R. Chatwin, and Brian F. Scott "High-speed hybrid optical/digital correlator system," Optical Engineering 32(10), (1 October 1993). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.146387

Published: 1 October 1993

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