Design and fabrication of a compact solid optical correlator for optical computing

Patrick J. Reardon; Jeffery S. Pawley; Timothy Scott Blackwell; J. P. Wilson

doi:10.1117/12.190939

21 October 1994 Design and fabrication of a compact solid optical correlator for optical computing

Patrick J. Reardon, Jeffery S. Pawley, Timothy Scott Blackwell, J. P. Wilson

Proceedings Volume 2287, Properties and Characteristics of Optical Glass III; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.190939
Event: SPIE's 1994 International Symposium on Optics, Imaging, and Instrumentation, 1994, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

Solid optics is a design strategy which has no air spaces throughout the entire optical path and therefore produces extremely rugged optical systems. In an ideal solid system, lens elements, refractive or diffractive, beam splitters, sources, detectors, and any other optical elements are cemented together to form a single rigid assembly. The resulting system, essentially a solid block of glass, is impervious to misalignment. Certain systems such as analogue optical computers, for example, are ideally suited to the advantages of solid optical design schemes. A solid correlator system is presented and a designer's wish list is discussed.

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Patrick J. Reardon, Jeffery S. Pawley, Timothy Scott Blackwell, and J. P. Wilson "Design and fabrication of a compact solid optical correlator for optical computing", Proc. SPIE 2287, Properties and Characteristics of Optical Glass III, (21 October 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.190939

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