Title :
Perspectives and limits of optical information processing
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Colorado Univ., Boulder, CO, USA
Abstract :
Summary form only given. . In this talk we will compare the development of the analog optical signal processing approaches to the Moore´s law exponential growth of digital microelectronic techniques and show an example in array processing where optics will continue to have a substantial advantage in computational throughput for the foreseeable future.
Keywords :
optical computing; optical interconnections; optical logic; optical switches; parallel architectures; Moore´s law; analog optical signal processing; array processing; computational throughput; digital microelectronic techniques; optical digital computing; optical information processing; optical interconnections; Adaptive optics; Analog computers; Information processing; Optical computing; Optical devices; Optical fiber networks; Optical signal processing; Optical solitons; Quantum computing; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, 2001. QELS '01. Technical Digest. Summaries of Papers Presented at the
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-663-X
DOI :
10.1109/QELS.2001.961978