Research on Distortion Invariant Recognition of a Planar Integrated Optical Correlator

In this paper, an optical correlator which adopts planar integrated 2F structure and optimal tradeoff synthetic discriminant function filter is proposed to improve the system integration and the recognition ability. The specialized digital microlens is designed for the correlator to replace the physical lens. By the theoretical analysis, the structural design conditions and parameters of the correlator are given, and the system volume is 63.1 cm 3 which is only half of the planar integrated 4F optical correlator. Moreover, simulations and experimental research works reveal that the correlator can achieve stable recognition to the input object of distortion with scaling (52%, 150%), rotation (-50°, +42°), and existed scaling (72%, 130%) and rotation (-36°, +38°) simultaneously. Theoretical analysis and experimental results indicate that the planar integrated optical correlator with compact structure and high integration has good performance of distortion invariant recognition.