This note addresses the problem of optimal
filtering for a class of continuous-time time-varying stochastic systems.
The time-variation character is considered to be periodic. The proposed filtering results are proved without requiring the restrictive assumption of
exponential stability in the mean square of the underlying stochastic systems. Instead, we would rather assume that the Lyapunov operator associated
to the dynamical stochastic system is
exponentially dichotomic. The state space representation of the optimal filter is designed based on
the unique periodic solution of a suitably defined Lyapunov differential equation and the periodic and stabilizing solution of a suitably defined
generalized periodic Riccati differential equation.