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    Area of Science:

    • Optics and Photonics
    • Signal Processing
    • Information Optics

    Background:

    • Diffractive optical elements (DOEs) offer compact and efficient solutions for optical signal processing.
    • Wavelet transforms are powerful tools for analyzing signals with both frequency and time localization.
    • Integrating DOE functionality with spatial light modulators (SLMs) enables dynamic and reconfigurable optical processing.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To present a novel diffractive optical element (DOE) capable of performing wavelet transforms on one-dimensional signals.
    • To demonstrate the DOE's ability to compute the inner product between an input image and wavelet basis functions.
    • To validate the proposed optical architecture through simulations.

    Main Methods:

    • The proposed DOE design utilizes the principle of optical information processing.
    • Input images are encoded as one-dimensional signals spread across the second dimension and displayed on a spatial light modulator (SLM).
    • The DOE is designed to perform an inner product operation with a set of predefined wavelet basis functions.

    Main Results:

    • Simulated results demonstrate the successful implementation of the wavelet transform using the DOE.
    • The optical system effectively processes elementary one-dimensional signals as input.
    • The inner product calculation between the input signal and wavelet basis functions is achieved optically.

    Conclusions:

    • The presented DOE provides a viable optical approach for performing wavelet transforms on one-dimensional signals.
    • The use of a spatial light modulator allows for flexibility in the choice of wavelet basis functions.
    • This optical processor holds potential for applications in real-time signal analysis and pattern recognition.