Trade-offs in nonlinearly recorded matched filters

Bhagavatula Vijaya Kumar; Laurence G. Hassebrook

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1 September 1990 Trade-offs in nonlinearly recorded matched filters

Bhagavatula Vijaya Kumar, Laurence G. Hassebrook

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Proceedings Volume 1296, Advances in Optical Information Processing IV; (1990) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.21251
Event: 1990 Technical Symposium on Optics, Electro-Optics, and Sensors, 1990, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

Here, we introduce a general nonlinearly-recorded matched filter that we term as the Fractional Power Filter (FPF). The Classical Matched Filter (CMF), the Phase-Only Filter (POF) and the Inverse Filter (IF) are special cases of the FPF. It is shown that by varying the degree of nonlinearity used in forming the FPFs, we can trade-off the noise tolerance of the filter against its correlation peak sharpness. It is also shown that the fractional power concept can be extended to distortion-invariant composite filters.

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Bhagavatula Vijaya Kumar and Laurence G. Hassebrook "Trade-offs in nonlinearly recorded matched filters", Proc. SPIE 1296, Advances in Optical Information Processing IV, (1 September 1990); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.21251

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