Title :
Metaphoric optical computing
Author :
Tsang, Mankei ; Psaltis, Demetri
Author_Institution :
California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA
Abstract :
In this paper, the authors use optical wave propagation in nonlinear media as a method for investigating nonlinear dynamical behavior of complex systems that are not optical. The basic idea is to construct an optical system whose nonlinear dynamics are related to the system we wish to simulate. We have shown that there are important classes of computationally difficult problems in finding a suitable optical simulator.
Keywords :
light propagation; nonlinear optics; complex systems; metaphoric optical computing; nonlinear dynamical behavior; optical wave propagation; Biomedical optical imaging; Fluidics; Nonlinear optics; Optical beams; Optical computing; Optical mixing; Optical propagation; Optical pulse shaping; Optical solitons; Optical vortices;
Conference_Titel :
LEOS Summer Topical Meetings, 2005 Digest of the
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8981-6
DOI :
10.1109/LEOSST.2005.1528054
