Advancing Fourier: space-time concepts in ultrafast optics, imaging, and photonic neural networks

The concepts of Fourier optics were established in France in the 1940s by Pierre-Michel Duffieux, and laid the foundations of an extensive series of activities in the French research community that have touched on nearly every aspect of contemporary optics and photonics. In this paper, we review a s...

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Published inJournal of the Optical Society of America. A, Optics, image science, and vision Vol. 36; no. 11; p. C69
Main Authors Froehly, Luc, Courvoisier, François, Brunner, Daniel, Larger, Laurent, Devaux, Fabrice, Lantz, Eric, Dudley, John M, Jacquot, Maxime
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.11.2019
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Summary:The concepts of Fourier optics were established in France in the 1940s by Pierre-Michel Duffieux, and laid the foundations of an extensive series of activities in the French research community that have touched on nearly every aspect of contemporary optics and photonics. In this paper, we review a selection of results where applications of the Fourier transform and transfer functions in optics have been applied to yield significant advances in unexpected areas of optics, including the spatial shaping of complex laser beams in amplitude and in phase, real-time ultrafast measurements, novel ghost imaging techniques, and the development of parallel processing methodologies for photonic artificial intelligence.
ISSN:1520-8532
DOI:10.1364/JOSAA.36.000C69