10EC845 Optical Computing syllabus for EC


Part A
Unit-1 MATHEMATICAL AND DIGITAL IMAGE FUNDAMENTALS 7 hours

Introduction, Fourier Transform, discrete Fourier transform, basic diffraction theory, Fourier transform property of lens , sampling and quantization, image enhancement, image restoration.

Unit-2 LINER OPTICAL PROCESSING 6 hours

ntroduction, photographic film, spatial filtering using binary filters, holography, inverse filtering, Deblurring.

Unit-3 ANALOG OPTICAL ARITHMETIC 6 hours

Introduction, Halftone processing,nonlinear optical processing, Arithmetic operations.

Unit-4 RECOGNITION USING ANALOG OPTICAL SYSTEMS 7 hours

Introduction,Matched filter, Joint transform correlation, Phase-only filter, Amplitude modulated recognition filters, Generalized correlation filter, Melllin transform based correlation.

Part B
Unit-5 DIGITAL OPTICAL COMPUTING DEVICES 6 hours

Introduction, Nonlinear devices, Integrated optics, Threshold devices, Spatial high modulators, Theta modulation devices.

Unit-6 SHADOW-CASTING AND SYMBOLIC SUBSTITUTION 7 hours

Introduction,Shadow casting system and design algorithm, POSC logic operations, POSC multiprocessor, Parallel ALU using POSC, Sequential ALU using POSC,POSC image processing, Symbolic substitutions, Optical implementation of symbolic substitution, Limitations and challenges.

Unit-7 OPTICAL MATRIX PROCESSING 6 hours

Introduction, Multiplication,Multiplication using convolution, Matrix operations, Cellular logic architecture, Programmable logic array.

Unit-8 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENT COMPUTATIONS 7 hours

Introduction, Neural networks, Associative memory, Optical implementations, Interconnections, Artificial Intelligence.

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