Polynomial processing can be applied to a number of potential applications, including general nonlinear operations using the Volterra series, eigenvalue computations via solutions to polynomial characteristic equations, pattern recognition, and polynomial neural networks[1]. Since most of these applications use vector-valued inputs (i.e., multiple-variable inputs), an optical polynomial vector processor is investigated and implemented here.

Date Published: 1 January 1987
PDF: 2 pages
Proc. SPIE 0813, Optics and the Information Age, (1 January 1987); doi: 10.1117/12.967359

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 0813:
Optics and the Information Age
Henri H. Arsenault, Editor(s)