Ultra-fast Real-time Target Recognition Using a Shift, Scale, and Rotation Invariant Hybrid Opto-electronic Joint Transform Correlator

Xi Shen, Julian Gamboa, Tabassom Hamidfar +2

Hybrid Opto-electronic correlators (HOC) overcome many limitations of all-optical correlators (AOC) while maintaining high-speed operation. However, neither the OEC nor the AOC in…