Performance comparison of ferroelectric liquid-crystal-technology-based coherent optical multichannel correlators

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 14, 1997, Pages 3043-3055

  Keryer, G ^a   De La Tocnaye, J L De Bougrenet ^b   Falou, A Al ^b  

^a Ecole Navale   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Coherent optical processor; Correlation; Diffusely scattered light; Image recognition

Indexed keywords

CORRELATORS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FERROELECTRIC DEVICES; FOURIER OPTICS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL CORRELATION; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL FILTERS; PERFORMANCE;

BINARY PHASE ONLY FILTER; COHERENT OPTICAL MULTICHANNEL CORRELATORS; FERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTAL; MULTICHANNEL OPERATION; NONLINEAR JOINT TRANSFORM CORRELATORS; VANDERLUGT CORRELATORS;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 0031142850     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.003043     Document Type: Article

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