Performance comparison between multichannel polychromatic and conventional joint transform correlators

Optical Engineering

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1758-1765

  Wu, Chih Sung ^a   Chen, Chulung ^a  

^a YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Multichannel correlator; Nonzero order joint transform correlator; Power spectrum subtraction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; LIGHT MODULATORS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTIMIZATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

JOINT TRANSFORM CORRELATOR; MULTICHANNEL CORRELATOR; MULTICHANNEL POLYCHROMATIC; NONZERO-ORDER JOINT TRANSFORM CORRELATOR; POWER SPECTRUM SUBTRACTION;

OPTICAL CORRELATION;

EID: 0043200980     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1571060     Document Type: Article

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