Research Interests
Research in Dr. Wagner's group at CU concerns optical information
processing and focuses on utilizing the unique computational properties
of optical systems to produce special purpose signal processing systems
with significant computational
advantages over conventional microelectronic digital approaches.
Currently, I am pursuing 5 avenues of research towards this goal.
Adaptive optical neural networks using dynamic volume holograms;
imaging, target recognition, and adaptive beamforming using
optical processing of advanced radar systems; development of
photorefractive and organic holographic materials and VLSI-liquid
crystal devices for incorporation in these systems; advanced
acoustooptic crossbars and routing systems for ultrawideband optical
interconnection networks using both bulk and surface wave devices,
and interactions between optical spatial solitons and 3-dimensional
light bullets for ultrafast and massively parallel digital optical
computing.
Project Summaries
The following are more detailed project summaries available
on-line:
- Real-time Synthetic Aperture Radar Automatic Target
Recognition
(A postscript version of this summary is also available).
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