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NASA NTRS1987

Novel optoelectronic devices; Proceedings of the Meeting, The Hague, Netherlands, Mar. 31-Apr. 2, 1987

The present conference on novel optoelectronics discusses topics in the state-of-the-art in this field in the Netherlands, quantum wells, integrated optics, nonlinear optical devices and fiber-optic-based devices, ultrafast optics, and nonlinear optics and optical bistability. Attention is given to the production of fiber-optics for telecommunications by means of PCVD, lifetime broadening in quantum wells, nonlinear multiple quantum well waveguide devices, tunable single-wavelength lasers, an Si integrated waveguiding polarimeter, and an electrooptic light modulator using long-range surface plasmons. Also discussed are backward-wave couplers and reflectors, a wavelength-selective all-fiber switching matrix, the impact of ultrafast optics in high-speed electronics, the physics of low energy optical switching, and all-optical logical elements for optical processing.

Adams, Michael J.↗
NASA NTRS1989

Liquid-Crystal Optical Correlator

Optical correlator uses commercially-available liquid-crystal television (LCTV) screen as spatial light modulator. Correlations with this device done at video frame rates, making such operations as bar-code recognition possible at reasonable cost. With further development, such correlator useful in automation, robotic vision, and optical image processing.

Liu, Hua-Kuang↗
NASA NTRS1989

Acousto-optical/Magneto-optical Correlator Or Convolver

Experimental system demonstrates optical processing of multiple channels of binary signals. One input channel contains signal that varies with time and applied to one-dimensional acousto-optical cell. Other input channel contains two-dimensional pattern that is stationary or can vary with time and applied to magneto-optical spatial light modulator. Output is time-varying correlation or convolution of first input with one of rows in second input.

Liu, Hua-Kuang↗
NASA NTRS1989

Integrated Semiconductor/Optical Information Processors

Optical information processors made of integrated three-dimensional devices which include optical, electro-optical, and electronic devices. Integration achieved by combination and extension of advanced semiconductor (integrated-circuit) and integrated-optics technology. In integrated device, spatial light modulator fabricated on surface of chip. Leads to miniaturization of sophisticated optical information-processing systems.

Cheng, Li-Jen↗
NASA NTRS1989

Pulsed Molecular Beams For Growth Of InAs On GaAs

Pauses for annealing reduce number of defects. Deposition process that includes pulsed molecular beams produces high-quality epitaxial layers of indium arsenide on gallium arsenide substrates. Layers made as much as 30 atoms thick without introducing excessive numbers of dislocations, despite 7.4-percent mismatch between InAs and GaAs crystal lattices. Layers offer superior electrical properties in such devices as optically addressed light modulators, infrared sensors, semiconductor lasers, and high-electron-mobility transistors. Technique applicable to other epitaxial systems in which lattices highly mismatched.

Grunthaner, Frank J.↗
NASA NTRS1989

Optical joint correlation using the deformable mirror device

An experimental investigation of the Deformable Mirror Device (DMD) developed by Texas Instruments at Dallas for use in object identification was completed. The DMD was tested as a joint correlator. The DMD was used as a spatial light modulator on which the squared modulus of the Fourier transform of test object pairs was written. The squared modulus was phase encoded on the DMD after it had been thresholded and rewritten as a binary phase function. The thresholding was found to produce a sharp peak in the autocorrelation when the test objects were matched and no significant peak in the case of distinct objects. It was concluded that the use of the DMD as a joint correlator looks promising and further studies should be carried out.

Knopp, Jerome↗
NASA NTRS1989

Finite element analysis of a micromechanical deformable mirror device

A monolithic spatial light modulator chip was developed consisting of a large number of micrometer-scale mirror cells which can be rotated through an angle by application of an electrostatic field. The field is generated by electronics integral to the chip. The chip has application in photoreceptor based non-impact printing technologies. Chips containing over 16000 cells were fabricated, and were tested to several billions of cycles. Finite Element Analysis (FEA) of the device was used to model both the electrical and mechanical characteristics.

Sheerer, T. J.↗
NASA NTRS1988

Matrix-vector multiplication in thin photorefractive GaAs crystals

Optical matrix-vector multiplication using four-wave mixing in a thin photorefractive GaAs crystal is demonstrated. Using a thin wafer of GaAs offers the potential to integrate the encoding spatial light modulators directly on the wave-mixing medium.

Cheng, Li-Jen↗
NASA NTRS1989

Real-time optical holographic tracking of multiple objects

A coherent optical correlation technique for real-time simultaneous tracking of several different objects making independent movements is described, and experimental results are presented. An evaluation of this system compared with digital computing systems is made. The real-time processing capability is obtained through the use of a liquid crystal television spatial light modulator and a dichromated gelatin multifocus hololens. A coded reference beam is utilized in the separation of the output correlation plane associated with each input target so that independent tracking can be achieved.

Chao, Tien-Hsin↗
NASA NTRS1990

Binary Operation Of A Liquid-Crystal Light Valve

Conditions for operation of commercially available liquid-crystal light valve as binary spatial light modulator discovered. In mode, modulator turns on sharply and then saturates as intensity of writing beam increases. Valve comprises photoconductive layer and liquid-crystal layer separated by dielectric mirror and sandwiched between two transparent electrodes. Potential applications include enhancement of images, optical recording, and holography.

Davis, Jeffrey A.↗
NASA NTRS1990

Photonic processing at NASA Ames Research Center

The Photonic Processing group is engaged in applied research on optical processors in support of the Ames vision to lead the development of autonomous intelligent systems. Optical processors, in conjunction with numeric and symbolic processors, are needed to provide the powerful processing capability that is required for many future agency missions. The research program emphasizes application of analog optical processing, where free-space propagation between components allows natural implementations of algorithms requiring a large degree of parallel computation. Special consideration is given in the Ames program to the integration of optical processors into larger, heterogeneous computational systems. Demonstration of the effective integration of optical processors within a broader knowledge-based system is essential to evaluate their potential for dependable operation in an autonomous environment such as space. The Ames Photonics program is currently addressing several areas of interest. One of the efforts is to develop an optical correlator system with two programmable spatial light modulators (SLMs) to perform distortion invariant pattern recognition. Another area of research is optical neural networks, also for use in distortion-invariant pattern recognition.

Ochoa, Ellen↗
NASA NTRS1989

Optical calculation of correlation filters for a robotic vision system

A method is presented for designing optical correlation filters based on measuring three intensity patterns: the Fourier transform of a filter object, a reference wave and the interference pattern produced by the sum of the object transform and the reference. The method can produce a filter that is well matched to both the object, its transforming optical system and the spatial light modulator used in the correlator input plane. A computer simulation was presented to demonstrate the approach for the special case of a conventional binary phase-only filter. The simulation produced a workable filter with a sharp correlation peak.

Knopp, Jerome↗
NASA NTRS1989

Optical pattern recognition; Proceedings of the Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, Jan. 17, 18, 1989

Papers on optical pattern recognition are presented, covering topics such as the estimation of satellite pose and motion parameters using a neural net tracker, associative memory, optical implmentation of programmable neural networks, optoelectronic neural networks, dynamic autoassociative neural memory, heteroassociative memory, bilinear pattern recognition processors, optical processing of optical correlation plane data, and a synthetic discriminant function-based nonlinear optical correlator. Other topics include an interactive optical-digital image processor, geometric transformations for video compression and human teleoperator display, quasiconformal remapping for compensation of human visual field defects, hybrid vision for automated spacecraft landing, advanced symbolic and inference optical correlation filters, and a rotationally invariant holographic tracking system. Additional topics include the detection of rotational and scale-varying objects with a programmable joint transform correlator, a single spatial light modulator binary nonlinear optical correlator, optical joint transform correlation, linear phase coefficient composite filters, and binary phase-only filters.

Liu, Hua-Kuang↗
NASA NTRS1989

Laboratory comparison of continuous vs. binary phase-mostly filters

Recent developments in spatial light modulators have led to devices which are capable of continuous phase modulation, even if only over a limited range. One of these devices, the deformable mirror device is used, to compare the relative merits of binary and partially-continuous phase filters in a specific problem of pattern recognition by optical correlation. Each filter was physically limited to only about a radiation of modulation. Researchers have predicted that for low input noise levels, continuous phase-only filters should have a higher absolute correlator peak output than the corresponding binary filters, as well as having a larger SNR. When continuous and binary filters were implemented on the DMD and they exhibited the same performance; an ad hoc filter optimization procedure was developed for use in the laboratory. The optimized continuous filter gave higher correlation peaks than did an independently optimized binary filter. Background behavior in the correlation plane was similar for the two filters, and thus the SNR showed the same improvement for the continuous filter. A phasor diagram analysis and computer simulation have explained part of the optimization procedure's success.

Monroe, Stanley E., Jr.↗
NASA NTRS1991

Diplex Fiber-Optic Link For Frequency And Time Signals

Diplex fiber-optic link part of Goldstone Deep Space Communications complex. Relatively inexpensive equipment delivers signals of high quality. At central station, signal combiner adds 5-MHz reference-frequency signal and 36-bit time-code signal, forming composite signal, which modulates light transmitted along optical fiber. At remote station, fiber-optic receiver detects composite signal and provides input to diplexer, which separates frequency reference signal from time-code signal. Signals then amplified to desired levels.

Lutes, George F.↗
NASA NTRS1991

Detection Of Motion With A Phase-Conjugate Mirror

Photorefractive image-processing apparatus generates images of rapidly moving objects and suppresses images of stationary and slowly moving objects. Resembles apparatus described in article, "Improved Interferometric Photorefractive Optical Processor", NPO-17773. Principle of operation similar, except system includes two video cameras and instead of transparencies, electro-optical spatial light modulators used to impress image information from video camera on laser beams.

Cheng, Li-Jen↗