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Optical processing of information

Multistage optoelectronic two-dimensional image switches

V. B. Fedorov

Computing Center for collective use of Sciences, Moscow

Abstract: The implementation principles and the feasibility of construction of high-throughput multistage optoelectronic switches, capable of transmitting data in the form of two-dimensional images along interconnected pairs of optical channels, are considered. Different ways of realising compact switches are proposed. They are based on the use of polarisation-sensitive elements, arrays of modulators of the plane of polarisation of light, arrays of objectives, and free-space optics. Optical systems of such switches can theoretically ensure that the resolution and optical losses in two-dimensional image transmission are limited only by diffraction. Estimates are obtained of the main maximum-performance parameters of the proposed optoelectronic image switches.

PACS: 42.79.Hp, 42.79.Ta, 42.79.S

Received: 06.07.1993

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 1994, 24:6, 493–501

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