Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2000. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 72-82). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

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Electro-optic (EO) beam deflectors are voltage-controlled devices widely used for scanning and switching applications. For example, high-speed, low-loss optical switches aimed at future optical networks can be built on EO deflectors. Novel EO deflectors distinguish themselves with a much-improved steering performance, high-speed response and simple fabrication requirements. Patterned ferroelectric crystals such as LiTaO3 are first poled to provide the required prism shaped domain structures. The application of an electrical field across the entire crystal can then be used to drive the trajectory of the beam as it travels through the poled wafer. The electric field induces an index change of opposite magnitude on the adjacent domain regions in the EO device, causing the optical beam to refract at the interfaces. / Although rectangular geometry is extensively employed in EO devices, nonrectangular scanners have demonstrated better deflection performance. Two new nonrectangular geometries capable of further enhancing the deflection performance of EO beam scanners, proposed in this dissertation, were constructed. Their parabola and half-horn geometries provide 2-3 degrees of steering, which is 2-3 times greater than the steering provided by rectangular deflectors. / EO deflectors based on the parabola and the half-horn geometries, which can provide larger deflection angles, were built. These devices demonstrated a deflection angle of 3.1°, less than 5 dB of insertion loss from fiber to fiber, and -40 dB of crosstalk. / Two packaged optical switches using rectangular EO deflectors were demonstrated. By combining these EO deflectors with fiber collimators and high voltage packaging, high speed optical switches were built and characterized. The switch design was based on a 500mum z-cut LiTaO3 single crystal wafer fabricated using the domain inversion method. The 1x2 switch had a maximum deflection angle of 1.22° with an applied voltage of 1.1 kV and the 1x4 switch had a maximum deviation angle of 2.14°, with an applied voltage of 1 kV. The average insertion loss and crosstalk figures were 2.36 dB and -36 dB, respectively. The worst case switching time was 86 ns.

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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Carleton University, 1992. / Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2006. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 169-180).

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Image data compression is an active topic of research in image processing. Traditionally, most image data compression schemes have been dominated by digital processing due to the fact that digital systems are inherently flexible and reliable. However, it has been demonstrated that optical processing can be used for spatial image data compression, using a method called interpolated differential pulse code modulation (IDPCM). This is a compression scheme which functions analogously with conventional digital DPCH compression, except that the specific compression steps are implemented by incoherent optical processing. The main objective of this research is to extend IDPCM to interframe compression, design such systems, and evaluate the compression performance limitation under no channel errors, given the subjectively acceptable image quality by means of digital simulation. We start with a review of digital spatial and interframe compression techniques and their implications for optical implementation. Then, the technological background of electro-optical devices which has made possible hybrid optical/digital processing for image data compression will be briefly discussed. Also, a detailed description of IDPCM coding is given, along with the ways that IDPCM can be extended to interframe compression. Finally, two architectures of hybrid and optical/digital interframe compression are proposed, simulated, and evaluated in order to discover potential performances of optically implemented interframe compression systems. Excellent reconstructed image quality is obtained by the proposed adaptive hybrid (O/D) IDPCM/frame replenishment technique at an overall transmission rate of 3 Mbits/sec, average bit rate of 1.5 bits/pixel, and the average compression ratio of 5.2:1.

The information transfer efficiency of any quantum detection imaging system can be described by a unique measure: the detective quantum efficiency {DQE(f)}, which is a function of the statistically independent frequency channels. The DQE(f) is a combined descriptor which takes into account the signal transfer as well as noise transfer properties of a complete system. For a complicated multistage imaging system, each system component contributes noise. In this dissertation, physical and mathematical models for noise analysis are developed and verified experimentally with an x-ray image intensifier (XRII)-based imaging system. In such a system, the DQE at low frequency range is primarily determined by the x-ray detection and scintillation processes at the CsI layer of the XRII. The effects of x-ray photon energy and sensor layer thickness on DQE are measured in detail. Numerical calculations based on a physical model of x-ray interactions show a general agreement with the experimental data. At higher frequencies, the DQE behavior becomes more complicated. A mathematical model which combines the micro-image properties and noise statistics is formulated to analyze the noise power spectrum (NPS) of a linear n-stage imaging system. Measurement of NPS components of an XRII system verifies the validity of this analytical prediction. The associated image transfer properties are also measured with emphasis on the effect of signal-induced background on the image information transfer. The low frequency data derived from these image property measurements show further agreement with the numerical calculations based on the physical model. As a result of this predictability of information transfer efficiency, system gain and recording capacity are emphasized in the design consideration of a projected high performance XRII radiographic system.