Optical Correlator

ABT provided the systems engineering and rapid prototype development required for the electronics of the Optical Correlator for SM-3 Demonstration Program

• FPGA technology for video digitizer and Marks overlay, based on an ABT design for the Phalanx CIWS
• Designed/constructed HWIL electronics
• Developed 180 Hz 1Mpix digital camera
  • Developed digital alignment mechanism for correlator’s optical axis
• Designed and built input/output plane processors
• Modular SLM drivers using 320Mbps LVDS
  • Developed innovative algorithms for processing video data streams in the FPGA — for example, developed a multiplier-free 9x9 Unsharp Mask for sharpening the input image to improve output plane sharpness