Title :
Applications of wavelength-fan-in for high-performance distributed processing systems
Author :
Tait, Alexander N. ; Prucnal, Paul R.
Author_Institution :
Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ, USA
Abstract :
We discuss a novel application of a photonic circuit for integrated high-performance neuromorphic signal processing. Large fan-in is an especially important capability in distributed systems; however, electronic physics impose tradeoffs between bandwidth performance and fan-in degree. A circuit developed in the field of radio frequency (RF) photonics, wavelength(λ)-fan-in does not exhibit a corresponding tradeoff and can circumvent prior challenges to fan-in in optical distributed processing applications.
Keywords :
distributed processing; integrated optics; neural nets; optical computing; RF photonics; bandwidth performance; electronic physics; fan-in degree; high-performance distributed processing systems; integrated high-performance neuromorphic signal processing; optical distributed processing applications; photonic circuit; radio frequency photonics; wavelength(λ)-fan-in; wavelength-fan-in; Holography; Nonlinear optics; Optical buffering; Photonics; Radio frequency; Ultrafast optics; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Nanoscale Architectures (NANOARCH), 2014 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Paris
DOI :
10.1109/NANOARCH.2014.6880485
