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1 August 1978 Guest Editorial: Spatial Light Modulators
David Casasent
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Optical Engineering, Vol. 17, Issue 4, 174307 (August 1978). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.7972237
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The real-time and parallel processing advantages of coherent optical processors are well known. The ease with which the Fourier transform and correlation operations (that are the hallmark of data processing and pattern recognition) can be performed optically has intrigued researchers for years. This once virgin discipline of optical computing is now maturing and emerging from the laboratory and research arena into deliverable and fielded systems. As this occurs, one of the key technology items that continues to plague program managers and contractors is the real-time and reusable spatial light modulator (SLM) used as the input (and often filter plane) transducer. Without such devices, the full speed advantages of optical processors cannot be realized.
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David Casasent "Guest Editorial: Spatial Light Modulators," Optical Engineering 17(4), 174307 (1 August 1978). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.7972237
Published: 1 August 1978
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KEYWORDS
Spatial light modulators
Analytical research
Computing systems
Data processing
Fourier transforms
Optical computing
Optical pattern recognition
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