Abstract

Advances in technology have made optical disk technology for optical signal processing realizable. The limiting factor in optical image processing is the spatial light modulator (liquid crystal or similar devices). Higher resolution and faster filter access makes optical disk technology an attractive alternative. Images are represented onto a CD by a single stream of 1's and 0's read by the optical pickup system. Digital processing is then performed on the image. We propose to write 2-dimensional images directly to a CD as shown in Figure 1. The 2-D images can then be accessed by our optical processor so that we can perform optical image processing.

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