Programmable CNN based on optical thyristors for early image processing
Ryszard R. Buczynski, Hugo Thienpont, S. Jankowski, Tomasz Szoplik, Irina P. Veretennicoff · 2002
An optoelectronic model of discrete time cellular neural networks (DTCNN) is presented. Connections between cells and parallel input-output are realized using optoelectronic devices. As an emitter-receiver device an optical thyristor is applied. Connections between cells are realized by diffractive Damman gratings. We propose a dual rail system for early processing of binary images. The CNN system performs mathematical morphology and space logic operations.