摘要:
An optical signal processor operating on interferometric principles serves to perform real time Fourier transformations on the intensity distribution of one-dimensional incoherent input light sources.
摘要:
An apparatus for the production of a holographic image of a subject disposed at a subject plane includes a source of coherent light divided by a beamsplitter into a reference beam and a subject beam. The subject beam is directed towards the subject through a beamsplitter and a quarter-wave plate. The front surface of an opaque subject or a mirror behind a transparent subject reflects the subject beam back through the quarter-wave plate to the beamsplitter where it is deflected towards a photo-sensitive recording medium through an imaging lens. The reference beam is simultaneously directed toward the recording medium at a predetermined angle of incidence. After exposure and development of the medium, it is illuminated from the conjugate direction by the redirected reference beam. Image rays exactly retrace their original paths back through the optical system and provide a three-dimensional real-image reconstruction at the subject plane. The images produced may be microscopically examined or studied through optical processing and interferrometric techniques. A method utilizing the above-described apparatus is also disclosed.
摘要:
Optical correlator for comparing a test sample with a standard object in which a diffractive image of the sample is projected on a holographic filter by a beam of coherent light. The light beam being diffracted by the filter is subsequently conveyed through an apertured diaphragm into a light-measuring apparatus generating an electrical signal proportionate to the intensity of the received light. An auxiliary filter is positioned either forwardly or rearwardly of the holographic filter, and is either a black-white or phase-reversing filter transmitting either one or both halves, respectively, of each of the diffraction orders generated by the standard object.
摘要:
A light beam is generated by means of a narrow band collimated light source, and this light beam is modulated in accordance with an electrical input signal to be identified. The light beam is then optically scanned at a predetermined scanning rate to produce an optical image of the input signals against a time base. Light from this optical image is passed through a holographic reference transparency, which is a spatial filter corresponding to the Fourier transform of the image of known electrical signals, the light passing through the transparency being fed to a detector. Successive reference transparencies are utilized until correlation between the transparency and the input signal to be identified is indicated by a peaking of the detector output which is sensed by a correlation indicator.
摘要:
A coherent optical multichannel correlator for identifying an object to be investigated by permeating the object with a beam of coherent radiation which is received by a transformation element and projected on a filter hologram which reconstructs a reference wave received by an optical sensor when the object to be identified is correlated with a filter hologram characterized by a Fourier transformation element comprising a plurality of lenses arranged in a raster with each lens having a focal point separated from a focal point of adjacent lenses, and by the filter hologram comprising a plurality of filter holograms with each of the plurality of filter holograms associated with a separate lens of the raster. The raster of lenses may be a raster of Fresnel zone lenses. The optical sensing element may be a single element which receives the reconstructed waves from each of the filter holograms or it may be subdivided into a plurality of sensing elements with each of the elements associated to receive the reconstructed reference wave of a single hologram filter. The lenses of the raster may be arranged with the focal point of each of the lenses lying in a single plane extending vertically to the optical axis of the beam or can be arranged with the focal points lying in a plurality of different parallel planes which extend vertical to the optical axis and preferably the filter holograms are located at the focal point for its respective lens.
摘要:
The present invention relates to double-diffraction optical correlators. According to the invention there is provided a multi-channel optical correlator for shape recognition wherein the lenses and the filters are all constituted by patterns of fringes ; each channel is fed from a quasi-monochromatic and quasi-punctiform light source, which may be spatially incoherent.
摘要:
An optical correlator in which a Fourier transform signal representing one image, and a Fourier transform holographic interference signal representing another image are projected onto an organic dye cell amplifier. The dye cell amplifier records, or in other words absorbs energy from the holographic interference signal and utilizes the absorbed energy to differentially amplify the Fourier transform signal. The amount of amplification provided to the various portions of the Fourier transform signal is proportional to the degree of correlation between the various portions of the two images.
摘要:
An optical multiplier, such as a fly''s eye lens projects a symbol to be recognized on a plurality of masks, which are subdivided into strips, each strip of the mask having predetermined transparencies and transmitting elementary sections of the image to associated photoelectric transducers which are connected to logic circuits identifying those of the transducers associated with any one strip which, conjointly, have an extreme (e.g., maximum) output signal. Preferably, optical or electrical weighting elements are interposed to optimize the outputs of the transducers associated with the various masks.