Design of digital optical processors

John Fraser Snowdon; Alex Kashko; Brian S. Wherrett

doi:10.1117/12.140919

12 January 1993 Design of digital optical processors

John Fraser Snowdon, Alex Kashko, Brian S. Wherrett

Proceedings Volume 1772, Optical Information Processing Systems and Architectures IV; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.140919
Event: San Diego '92, 1992, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

Optical cellular logic and extended-interconnect cellular logic processor architectures are described. Simulations, tolerance studies and circuit construction are used to advance both device technology and architectural thinking. Benchmarking against electronic distributed array processors leads to an optical non-locally interconnected, off-chip scheme with local electronic connections between smart pixels, unless ultra-low switching energy all-optical components can be fabricated. Fundamental limits to optical bistability do not rule out the latter possibility.

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John Fraser Snowdon, Alex Kashko, and Brian S. Wherrett "Design of digital optical processors", Proc. SPIE 1772, Optical Information Processing Systems and Architectures IV, (12 January 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.140919

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