Design considerations of the optical image crossbar switch.
Novel types of an optical image crossbar switch based on multiple imaging systems are proposed and demonstrated. The optical systems are based on gometric optics; accordingly, the systems have a large space bandwidth 20 x 20 switching for images with 10(3) x 10(3) pixels is realizable with the proposed optical image crossbar switches. A preliminary experiment is conducted for one of the proposed configurations. The possibility of incorporating the proposed optical switching system into optical parallel processing systems is particularly significant.
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