title: Filter multiplexing by use of spatial Code Division Multiple Access approach.
abstract: The increasing popularity of optical communication has also brought a demand for a broader bandwidth. The trend, naturally, was to implement methods from traditional electronic communication. One of the most effective traditional methods is Code Division Multiple Access. In this research, we suggest the use of this approach for spatial coding applied to images. The approach is to multiplex several filters into one plane while keeping their mutual orthogonality. It is shown that if the filters are limited by their bandwidth, the output of all the filters can be sampled in the original image resolution and fully recovered through an all-optical setup. The theoretical analysis of such a setup is verified in an experimental demonstration.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Engineering, Department of Physical Electronics, Tel Aviv University, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel.
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Solomon
authors.forename: Zeev
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zalevsky
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mendlovic
authors.forename: Javier Garcia
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Monreal