Optical digital computing and interconnections

Author

Jenkins, B.K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng.-Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

fYear

1988

fDate

7-9 Jun 1988

Firstpage

1075

Abstract

A digital optical processing system consisting of optical gates and optical interconnections is described. Past and present experimental work on demonstrating the concept includes a sixteen-gate flip-flop circuit and one cell of a parallel cellular logic processor. A holographic technique for implementing massively parallel interconnections between optical gates or processing elements is also described, which permits higher connectivity and in general has a lower area complexity than VLSI interconnections

Keywords

flip-flops; holographic optical elements; multiprocessor interconnection networks; optical information processing; optical interconnections; optical logic; parallel architectures; VLSI interconnections; digital optical processing system; experimental work; holographic technique; lower area complexity; massively parallel interconnections; optical digital computing; optical gates; optical interconnections; parallel cellular logic processor; sixteen-gate flip-flop circuit; Computer aided manufacturing; Electron optics; Holographic optical components; Holography; Integrated circuit interconnections; Optical arrays; Optical beams; Optical computing; Optical interconnections; Optical modulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 1988., IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Espoo

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.1988.15111

Filename

15111