Real-time edge-enhanced optical correlator

Optical: systems and elements – Holographic system or element – Having particular recording medium

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359559, 359561, G03B 116, G02B 2742

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ABSTRACT:
Edge enhancement of an input image by four-wave mixing a first write beam with a second write beam in a photorefractive crystal, e.g., GaAs, achieved for VanderLugt optical correlation with an edge enhanced reference image by optimizing the power ratio of a second write beam to the first write beam, e.g., 70:1, and optimizing the power ratio of a read beam, which carries the reference image to the first write beam, e.g., 100:701. Liquid crystal TV panels are employed as spatial light modulators in order to change the input and reference images in real time.

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