Author Description

"This much-needed new editon brings the treatment of optical pattern recognition up to date. Optical pattern recognition was one of the first implementations of Fourier Optics, and is now very widely used. Neil Collings provides an accessible introduction for readers who wish to get to grips with how holography is applied in a practical context. A wide range of devices are addressed from a user perspective with tables enabling a performance comparison. The book will appeal to both lecturers and research scientists in the field of electro-optic devices and systems. The later part of the book covers computer-generated holograms, optical correlator systems and pattern matching algorithms"--