Floating Point Optical Matrix Calculations

H. J. Caulfield

doi:10.1117/12.7973236

1 December 1983 Floating Point Optical Matrix Calculations

H. J. Caulfield

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 22, Issue 6, 226765 (December 1983). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.7973236

Abstract

The recent explosion of interest and activity in optical numerical processing has occurred despite the fact that calculations had to be carried out with integer or fixed point arithmetic. We show here that floating point optical matrix-vector multiplication is feasible.

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H. J. Caulfield "Floating Point Optical Matrix Calculations," Optical Engineering 22(6), 226765 (1 December 1983). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.7973236

Published: 1 December 1983

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