Non-rigidly coupled, overlapping, non-feedback, optical systems for spatial filtering of fourier transform optical patterns and image shape content characterization
First Claim
1. Apparatus for processing an optical image isolating shape content and characterization of the optical image, comprising:
- a source of coherent, monochromatic light for propagating a beam of planar polarized, coherent, monochromatic light along a beam path;
a first optical subsystem comprising a focusing lens positioned in the beam path and shaped to focus the beam to a focal point at a focal plane, an image input device positioned between the focusing lens and the focal point, wherein the image input device has the capability of modulating the beam of light with spatially dispersed phase changes that result in diffracted light of an image in the beam, and a spatial filter positioned in the beam where a Fourier transform pattern of the image is presented; and
a second optical subsystem overlapping the first optical subsystem in the beam path comprising a projection lens having respective focal points at respective focal distances on opposite sides of the projection lens, and a detector, wherein the second optical subsystem is optically coupled to the first optical subsystem with the projection lens and both of the focal points of the projection lens positioned on the beam path between the image input device and the detector and with the spatial filter positioned optically between the image input device and the projection lens.
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Abstract
Non-rigidly coupled, overlapping, non-feedback optical systems for spatial filtering of Fourier transform optical patterns and image shape characterization comprises a first optical subsystem that includes a lens for focusing a polarized, coherent beam to a focal point, an image input device that spatially modulates phase positioned between the lens and the focal point, and a spatial filter at the Fourier transform pattern, and a second optical subsystem overlapping the first optical subsystem includes a projection lens and a detector. The second optical subsystem is optically coupled to the first optical subsystem.
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1. Apparatus for processing an optical image isolating shape content and characterization of the optical image, comprising:
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a source of coherent, monochromatic light for propagating a beam of planar polarized, coherent, monochromatic light along a beam path; a first optical subsystem comprising a focusing lens positioned in the beam path and shaped to focus the beam to a focal point at a focal plane, an image input device positioned between the focusing lens and the focal point, wherein the image input device has the capability of modulating the beam of light with spatially dispersed phase changes that result in diffracted light of an image in the beam, and a spatial filter positioned in the beam where a Fourier transform pattern of the image is presented; and a second optical subsystem overlapping the first optical subsystem in the beam path comprising a projection lens having respective focal points at respective focal distances on opposite sides of the projection lens, and a detector, wherein the second optical subsystem is optically coupled to the first optical subsystem with the projection lens and both of the focal points of the projection lens positioned on the beam path between the image input device and the detector and with the spatial filter positioned optically between the image input device and the projection lens. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A method of processing an optical image for isolating shape content and characterization of the optical image, comprising:
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propagating a beam of coherent, monochromatic light along a beam path through a focusing lens positioned in the beam path to focus the beam to a focal point at a focal plane; illuminating an object image in the beam between the focusing lens and the focal point in a manner that spatially modulates the beam of light by imposing spatially dispersed phase changes which result in diffracted light of the object image in the beam so that a Fourier transform of the object image occurs at the focal plane of the focusing lens; spatially filtering the beam where a Fourier transform pattern of the object image is presented; and projecting the object image in the spatially filtered beam onto a detector with a projection lens that is positioned with its focal points between the object image and a detector. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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