Abstract

Digital optical architectures performing bilinear transformations are presented. These architectures employ the inner-product and systolic-inner-product techniques dealing in vector-matrix-vector multiplication and triple matrix multiplication. A microcomputer-based optical processing system for digital-optical computation is utilized. Programmable magnetooptic spatial light modulators (MOSLMs) are used to generate the time sequence input signals and the bilinear systolic engagement matrix. A CCD detector is in the output plane as a time integrator for the systolic processing. The proposed hybrid optical architectures offer high-data-rate and high-accuracy processing capabilities.

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