We present an optimized CD compensation filter with improved performance and increased resilience to quantization errors. The filter is given in closed form based on a constrained least-squares problem. OCIS codes: (060.1660) Coherent communications; (060.4510) Optical communications

This paper presents an integrated method by using optical flow and kernel particle filter (KPF) to detect and track moving targets in omnidirectional vision. According to the circle character in omnidirectional image, the algorithms of optical flow fields and kernel particle filter are improved based on the polar coordinates at the omnidirectional center. The edge of a motion object can be dete...

We present both the observations and the data reduction procedures of the Subaru COSMOS 20 project that is an optical imaging survey of the HST COSMOS field, carried out by using Suprime-Cam on the Subaru Telescope with the following 20 optical filters: 6 broad-band (B, g, V , r, i, and z), 2 narrow-band (NB711 and NB816), and 12 intermediate-band filters (IA427, IA464, IA484, IA505, IA527, IA5...

A Fabry-Perot etalon placed in the object plane of a coherent optical processing system can be used as a variable bandpass preprocessing filter. Use of this filter leads to improved correlation signals in a matched spatial filter system. Experimental results are shown and compared with results obtained by two other preprocessing methods.

We present a continuously tunable nonrecursive radio-frequency (RF) photonic filter. The filter provides fine tuning through the use of a novel RF phase shifter and coarse tuning using an all optical variable time delay. This architecture permits wide-band continuous tuning of the filter null frequency and is useful in applications such as moving target indication (MTI) in an airborne radar.

Intersymbol interference in direct deIII. FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETER tection optical systems can limit the channel spacing We consider a Fabry-Perot filter as the optical demultiplexing in frequency division multiplexing and prevent multifilter [1]. The envelope of the impulse response is well approxlevel signaling. We investigate a zero-forcing electrical imated by e t / ' for t > 0. The envel...

We propose and demonstrate a tunable photonic radio frequency notch filter. The filter has a single delay line architecture and incorporates a new wavelength-selective true-time-delay. The time delay in the feed-forward ioop can be varied by simply changing the optical wavelength resulting in a shift of the null of the filter response. Application in radar systems is discussed.

We present a new method of superresolving pupil-plane filter design in confocal microscopy in which we specify the properties of the desired point-spread function and use an optimization procedure to determine a suitable pupil-plane filter. A new, flexible method of filter implementation using reconfigurable binary optical elements is described, and experimental results are presented.

This paper investigates the prospects and challenges of hierarchical optical path networks. The merits and issues of introducing higher order optical paths are elucidated. State of the art of the key enabling technologies are demonstrated including hierarchical optical cross-connect switch architectures, hierarchical optical path network design algorithms, a newly developed waveband filter, and...