Coherent optical correlator based on combined halftone and position modulation of light phaseстатья
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Аннотация:Usually only a halftone (grayscale) modulation of light is used to present the processed and reference
signals in the input plane of analog coherent optical (ACO) correlators, based on spatially integrating the
product of two (processed and reference) signals. The halftone modulation requires two transparencies to
record two signals separately, as the desired product of two spatial signals is obtained by sequential
location of two spatial halftone records along the light path. Such an optical layout leads to the need
for precision mutual alignment of two separate signal recordings. This paper presents a one-stage
ACO correlation method based on combined halftone and position modulation of the light phase, which
is produced by joint phase recording two signals on a single transparency. The joint phase recording provides
the high optical efficiency of informational light modulation, automatically supports the spatial
coincidence of corresponding elements of both recorded signals, and provides the same spatial scale
for both recordings. The suggested method can also be used for introducing phase weight functions
in the schemes of space–time ACO processing of wave signals. Advantages of ACO signal processing
methods in comparison with corresponding electronic approaches are briefly noted.