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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Boone, Bradley G. (Bradley Gilbert), 1950
Signal processing using optics : fundamentals, devices, architectures, and applications/Bradley G. Boone.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

(cloth)
1. Optical data processing. 2. Signal processing. I. Title.
TA1632.B66 1997
621.36'7 dc21 97-6961
CIP

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To my wife Sandra Jean and my children April Elizabeth and Jonathan Christopher; all the patience, understanding, and time that I borrowed belongs to you.

Acknowledgments

To Dr. Gary L. Smith, Director of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL), I wish to convey my heartiest thanks for his support for this work through internally funded research opportunities at JHU/APL, as well as my Parsons professorship at Homewood and my subsequent Janney Fellowship at JHU/APL. To Dr. Rodger Westgate, I am grateful for the opportunity to have a quiet, unfettered visit in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of JHU/APL while on sabbatical. I would also like to thank Dr. Kishin Moorjani and Dr. John Apel, current and past editors for the APL...