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Analog Optical Computing

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Diverse interest in a wide variety of applications, requiring highspeed processing of large amounts of data, such as two-dimensional and three-dimensional signals, exists. Over the last years there has been considerable research effort in the general area of information processing by optical techniques. The real-time and parallel processing advantages and features of optical processors were already used in some applications of optics in analog computing, including acousto-optic spectrum analyzers, convolvers, correlators etc.. Many potential advantages of optical analog computing systems are obvious: High space-bandwidth and time-bandwidth products, two-dimensional and parallel processing in separate channels with essentially no interaction, parallel channels without interference and crosstalk as well as processing on a subpicosecond time scale.

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    A. Herden & T. Tschudi

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  1. Institute of General Physics, Academy of Sciences, Vavilov Street 38, SU-117942, Moscow, Soviet Union

    A. M. Prokhorov

  2. Central Institute of Physics, P.O. Box MG6, Bucharest, Romania

    I. Ursu

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Herden, A., Tschudi, T. (1986). Analog Optical Computing. In: Prokhorov, A.M., Ursu, I. (eds) Trends in Quantum Electronics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10624-2_25

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