Experimental implementation of a photorefractive joint transform correlator with circular harmonic filters

Hui Zhang; Colin M. Cartwright; Mei-Song Ding; Zhao-Qi Wang; Nick J. Cook; W. Allan Gillespie

doi:10.1016/S0030-4018(99)00598-2

Experimental implementation of a photorefractive joint transform correlator with circular harmonic filters

Hui Zhang, Colin M. Cartwright, Mei-Song Ding, Zhao-Qi Wang, Nick J. Cook, W. Allan Gillespie

Abertay University

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We present an experimental realization of optical correlation for real-time rotational-invariance pattern recognition by means of a photorefractive joint transform correlator. Single and multiple circular harmonic components have been used to form correlation filters. The correlator operates with a liquid crystal television as the input images and a photorefractive crystal Bi₁₂SiO₂₀(BSO) as the recording medium. Suitable pre-processing of the references at the object plane makes up for the lack of light transmission. The properties of circular harmonic phase-only filter and circular harmonic matched filter have been compared. Also the noise robustness of these filters has been tested by tracking an object against a non-overlapping noise background. Analysis and experimental results are presented.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	129-136
Number of pages	8
Journal	Optics Communications
Volume	173
Issue number	1-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0030-4018(99)00598-2
Publication status	Published - Jan 2000

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Zhang, H., Cartwright, C. M., Ding, M-S., Wang, Z-Q., Cook, N. J., & Gillespie, W. A. (2000). Experimental implementation of a photorefractive joint transform correlator with circular harmonic filters. Optics Communications, 173(1-6), 129-136. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0030-4018(99)00598-2

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