Synthesized phase objects used instead of real ones for optical-digital recognition systems: experiment
Pavel V. Yezhov, Alexander V. Kuzmenko, Tatiana N. Smirnova, Andriy A. Ivanovskyy · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2006
The method of pattern recognition based on replacement of object images incoming to the correlator input by object-dependent synthesized phase objects calculated using the iterative Fourier-transform algorithm was developed by us earlier. In this work, we performed experimental testing the above method by using an opticaldigital 4F-correlator. Synthesized phase objects were introduced into the correlator through the spatial light modulator LC 2002. Holographic matched filters were recorded using self-developing photopolymers PPC-488. For two test objects, we obtained unified (δ-like) correlation signals with the signal-to-noise ratio reaching 24 dB, while the diffraction efficiency of these filters was up to 30%.