Rewritable Broad-Band Color Filters for Spectral Image Analysis

Abstract

We propose an optical system to implement rewritable transparent broad-band color filters. The filter consists of a linear variable filter and a liquid crystal spatial light modulator in which an expected filter function is written. A time-integrated intensity image was taken while the filter was passing the lens aperture of a CCD camera. The averaged norm error between the implemented and the expected filter functions was about 5.4#x0025;. The system was applied to spectral estimation in a two-dimensional color image.