Patent ID: 8792167
Filing Date: 2014-07-29
Classification: G02B,G06E,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An integrated optical information processing system comprising: an image source for providing optical image data, the image source comprising a light emitting diode (LED) array; a first non-quadratic phase optical element having a first side and a second side, the first non-quadratic phase optical element configured to accept the optical image data from the image source at the first side and to alter the optical image according to an imaging process, and to provide a first altered optical image from the second side of the first non-quadratic phase optical element; a plurality of light-modulating element arrays responsive to associated incoming light-modulating control signals associated with non-quadratic phase transfer functions, and adjacently stacked so that consecutive pairs of light-modulating element arrays are immediately adjacent with one another so as to form a stack with a first image passing surface at one edge of the stack and a second image passing surface at a second edge of the stack, the plurality of light-modulating element arrays arranged so that the first image passing surface receives the first altered optical image, the second image passing surface provides a second altered optical image; a second non-quadratic phase optical element arranged to receive the second altered optical image at a first of two sides; and an electronic image sensor facing the second of the two sides of the second non-quadratic phase optical element; wherein the optical image is directed through the first non-quadratic optical element, producing an optical field directed through the stacked plurality of light-modulating element arrays and subsequently directed through the second non-quadratic optical element and sensed by the electronic image sensor, the electronic image sensor to transform the second altered optical image into an electrical output.