Title :
Pyramidical pipelining of AO cells for computing successive matrix powers
Author :
Margaritis, K. ; Bekakos, M.P. ; Evans, D.J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Studies, Loughborough Univ. of Technol., UK
fDate :
6/1/1988 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Describes an optical implementation for successive matrix powers, using an optical processor as a basic component for matrix/matrix multiplication with unidirectional data flow. Then, a series of optical processors are lined up to produce a pyramidical pipeline for successive matrix squarings. Suitable applications which would benefit include, besides the calculation of matrix powers, the evaluation of matrix polynomials, iterative solutions of linear equations, iterative matrix inversion, and the calculation of matrix functions, i.e. matrix exponential
Keywords :
acousto-optical devices; iterative methods; matrix algebra; optical information processing; pipeline processing; AO cells; computing; iterative matrix inversion; iterative solutions; linear equations; matrix exponential; matrix functions; matrix polynomials; matrix powers; matrix/matrix multiplication; optical implementation; optical processor; pyramidical pipelining; successive matrix powers; unidirectional data flow;
Journal_Title :
Optoelectronics, IEE Proceedings J
