This book, Modular optical systems for nonlinear data processing and manipulation, presents the PhD thesis under the same name, submitted in 2003. The work combines knowledge in image processing, switching in communication networks and knowledge in modern optics, especially in the field of Diffractive Optical Elements (D.O.E). The main topics covered in this book are: Multi stage binary phase-only image processing, Optical multi stage interconnection network (MIN) optimization, Optical implementation of non-linear operators such as the Volterra operators, and Optical implementation of Fuzzy...

New Approaches to Image Processing Based Failure Analysis of Nano-Scale ULSI Devices introduces the reader to transmission and scanning microscope image processing for metal and non-metallic microstructures.

Engineers and scientists face the pressing problem in ULSI development and quality assurance: microscopy methods can't keep pace with the continuous shrinking of feature size in microelectronics. Nanometer scale sizes are below the resolution of light, and imaging these features is nearly impossible even with electron microscopes, due to image noise.

This book...