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This text provides a review of the possibilities and limitations of optical data processing. It focuses on applications and connections to computer science, rather than optical devices or phenomena, covering the main topics in a wide field.

Table of Contents:
Part 1 Special purpose optical processors: background in optics - light as a wave of electromagnetic radiation, coherence, sources, basic elements of optical systems, acoustooptic systems, fundamental limitations, detectors, holography; optical image and signal processing - spectral analysis and filtering, pattern recognition, picture deblurring, synthetic aperture radar imaging, radio-signal analysis, transforms; optical numerical processing - simple arithmetic, evaluation of polynomials, matrix operations, differentiation, integration, analog solutions of partial differential equations; hybrid optical/electronic systems - division of the work, dependence between optics and electronics, what an electronic computer can do for an optical processor, closed circuit television. Part 2 Toward a general purpose digital optical computer: nonlinear optics - nonlinear effects, optical bistability, optical phase conjugation; digital optical computers - internal representations, implementation of binary logic elements, implementation of multilevel logic, implementaton of arithmetic units, memory, interconnections and comunication, architectures; feasibility and technology - miniaturization, thin film waveguides, passive integrated optics devices, analog integrated optics devices, properties and limitations, are integrated optics the right direction? Part 3 The impact of optical computers: status and prospects - special purpose (analog) optical processor, general purpose digital optical computers, new devices for conventional computers; connections to computer science - influences on applied computer science, implications in theoretical computer science, the contribution of computer science to optical computing. Appendices: taxonomy; linear algebra; the Fourier transform; lasers; semiconductors and light; issues in holography; physical effects in crystals; modes in waveguides; the strength of the CRDCW model.

Review :
"An extremely wide overview of this area of research.... The author has done a good job collecting and sorting out the work of 20 years.... A valuable reference source."--Karl-Heinz Brenner, "Applied Optics" "This is a remarkable book. Written by a computer scientist, it deals with a subject that spans several disciplines in optical physics and information technology.... It deserves wide circulation."--S. D. Smith, "Nature" & quot; An extremely wide overview of this area of research.... The author has done a good job collecting and sorting out the work of 20 years.... A valuable reference source.& quot; -- Karl-Heinz Brenner, Applied Optics & quot; This is a remarkable book. Written by a computer scientist, it deals with a subject that spans several disciplines in optical physics and information technology.... It deserves wide circulation.& quot; -- S. D. Smith, Nature " An extremely wide overview of this area of research.... The author has done a good job collecting and sorting out the work of 20 years.... A valuable reference source." -- Karl-Heinz Brenner, "Applied Optics" " This is a remarkable book. Written by a computer scientist, it deals with a subject that spans several disciplines in optical physics and information technology.... It deserves wide circulation." -- S. D. Smith, "Nature"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780262560627
  • Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press
  • Height: 228 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: A Survey for Computer Scientists
  • Width: 178 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0262560623
  • Publisher Date: 30 Jan 1992
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Weight: 635 gr


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