Two new types of optoelectronic radio-signal processors were investiga
ted. Charge-coupled device (CCD) photodetectors are used in these proc
essors under continuous scanning conditions, i.e. in a time delay and
storage mode. One of these processors is based on a CCD photodetector
array with a reference-signal amplitude transparency and the other is
an adaptive acousto-optical signal processor with a linear frequency m
odulation. The processor with the transparency performs multichannel d
iscrete-analogue convolution of an input signal with a corresponding k
ernel of the transformation determined by the transparency. If a light
source is an array of light-emitting diodes of special (stripe) geome
try, the optical stages of the processor can be made from optical fibr
e components and the whole processor than becomes a rigid 'sandwich' (
a compact hybrid optoelectronic microcircuit). A report is given also
of a study of a prototype processor with optical fibre components for
the reception of signal from a system with antenna aperture synthesis,
which forms a radio image of the Earth.