OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING

1.General structure of the optical processor

2.Optical analog Fourier processor
3.Optical analog correlation/convolution
processor
4. Optical digital processor

Optical signal
processing
systems

Analog

Digital

Optical processor
1

1- Laser; 2- SLM; 3- optical processing module;

4- memory and control module; 5- detector

Optical analog Fourier processor

Y

SLM

FL

U
V

2D FOURIER TRANSFORMATION

FT F x,y F u,v
=F x,y exp j2 xu+yv dx
dy

OPTICAL JOINT FOURIER

TRANSFORMATION PROCESSOR
OS
CRT

OM
CORREL
OUTPUT

SLM

FTL
OPTICS

LASER

Data Bus
Control Bus

JT
PLANE

Optical analog
convolution/correlation processor
Y

SLM2

SLM1
FL1

FL2

D
P

U
X

Optical analog
convolution/correlation processor
SLM1

FL1

SLM2

FL2

CONVOLUTION/CORRELATION
SIGNALS PROCESSING

C , = F x,y H(x ,y )dxdy

-
F(x,y) input signal
H(x,y) - filter

CONVOLUTION/CORRELATION
The convolution function calculation
based on 2D Fourier transformation:

C , =
1 FT F x,y }FT{H(x,y)}}=
= FT-1 F u,v H* u,v

FT-

OPTICAL PROCESSOR USING LASER DIODE

ARRAY

S
CRT L
M
OPTICS

LD ARRAY

FTL

FILTER
BANK

FTL

OUTPUT
PLANE

MATRIX OF SEMI-CONDUCTIVE LASERS

COMPACT OPTICAL PROCESSOR

5

2
20

20

8
100

9
150

10

OPTICAL CORRELATION PROCESSOR

Time
of
optical
correlation
function calculation: 10-8 sec
The processor productivity:
1014 Bits/sec
The volume of optical processor
13 cm3

OPTICAL DIGITAL PROCESSOR

5

2
2

3
0
3

5
1

+
2

1
5