Spatial light modulators for multimedia database processing

Pericles A. Mitkas

doi:10.1117/12.447742

8 November 2001 Spatial light modulators for multimedia database processing

Pericles A. Mitkas

Proceedings Volume 4457, Spatial Light Modulators: Technology and Applications; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.447742
Event: International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, 2001, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

Multimedia databases are characterized by massive storage requirements and the need for an extremely high processor/memory bandwidth. In addition, the diversity of data types and their varying sizes and formats make multimedia database processing a formidable task. Optical and optoelectronic technology can contribute devices and system solutions with high time-space bandwidth. Spatial light modulators constitute one such class of devices. In this paper, we outline the desirable properties of spatial light modulators for multimedia database processing and review a number of devices and the systems they have been used in. Special attention is paid to holographic associative processing. We also describe a free-space optoelectronic system that employs arrays of vertical cavity surface emitting lasers integrated on CMOS to perform similarity searches on databases of biological data.

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Pericles A. Mitkas "Spatial light modulators for multimedia database processing", Proc. SPIE 4457, Spatial Light Modulators: Technology and Applications, (8 November 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.447742

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