Frequency multiplexed joint transform correlator system
First Claim
1. A joint transform correlator system including means for providing the joint transform and means for providing the cross correlation products of a first and second channel of information, comprising the combination of:
- channel mixer means for carrier modulating and filtering one channel of information and for adding the carrier modulated and filtered information to the other channel of information;
electrical-to-optical input transducer means for receiving the summed channels of information and for providing spatially separated channels of information; and
interferometer means disposed to interfere said spatially separated channels of information to produce the joint transform at a joint transform plane.
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Abstract
An improved joint transform correlator system frequency multiplexes two input signals to reduce the resolution along a single optical axis by one half, and uses full input transducer resolution in the other axis to provide a 20% increase in overall system performance. The two input channels are combined by summing baseband channel 1 information with reference channel 2 information which is frequency shifted using single sideband modulation techniques. The resultant signal is used to drive an input transducer of an optical system. The input transducer spatially modulates the light from a laser. A frequency plane is produced by the input optics, where the spatially separated channels may be observed. An interferometer is used to further process the signal information by combining the two channels at the joint transform plane. The combined signals are then written onto an optical-to-optical transducer where the joint transforms are multiplied together through a detection process. The output of this transducer is transformed by the output optics system to provide the cross correlation plane to an output transducer.
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1. A joint transform correlator system including means for providing the joint transform and means for providing the cross correlation products of a first and second channel of information, comprising the combination of:
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channel mixer means for carrier modulating and filtering one channel of information and for adding the carrier modulated and filtered information to the other channel of information; electrical-to-optical input transducer means for receiving the summed channels of information and for providing spatially separated channels of information; and interferometer means disposed to interfere said spatially separated channels of information to produce the joint transform at a joint transform plane. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A joint transform correlator system including means for providing the joint transform and means for providing the cross correlation products of a first and second channel of information comprising the combination of:
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input electro-optical means including an electrical-to-optical transducer means having an optical input aperture for receiving each channel of information over the full input aperture, with each channel at 1/2 the total bandwidth, and for providing spatially separated channels of information; and interferometer means disposed to interfere said spatially separated channels of information to produce the joint transform at a subsequent joint transform plane.
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