Free-space all-optical interconnection with a photorefractive crystal

Author

Nakada, Takashi ; Okamoto, Atsushi ; Takayama, Yoichiro

Author_Institution

Fac. of Eng., Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo, Japan

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

Aug. 30 1999-Sept. 3 1999

Firstpage

373

Abstract

Recently, optical interconnection devices with parallel processing have been studied. Especially, expectations of an all-optical interconnection have been rising, and using a cat conjugator in a photorefractive crystal has been proposed to realize an optically controlled interconnection. In this report we propose a free-space all-optical interconnection device using the beam-fanning effect in a photorefractive crystal and perform 4 /spl times/ 4 operations experimentally.

Keywords

nonlinear optics; optical interconnections; photorefractive materials; 4 /spl times/ 4 operations; all-optical interconnection; beam-fanning effect; cat conjugator; free-space all-optical interconnection; free-space all-optical interconnection device; optical interconnection devices; optically controlled interconnection; parallel processing; photorefractive crystal; Gratings; Laser beams; Lenses; Optical computing; Optical control; Optical coupling; Optical interconnections; Optical mixing; Optical scattering; Photorefractive materials;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1999. CLEO/Pacific Rim '99. The Pacific Rim Conference on

Conference_Location

Seoul, South Korea

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5661-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOPR.1999.811476

Filename

811476