Experimental system of ternary logic optical computer with reconfigurability

Zhang-Yi Shen; Yi Jin; Jun-Jie Peng

doi:10.1117/12.831039

21 May 2009 Experimental system of ternary logic optical computer with reconfigurability

Zhang-Yi Shen, Yi Jin, Jun-Jie Peng

Proceedings Volume 7282, 4th International Symposium on Advanced Optical Manufacturing and Testing Technologies: Advanced Optical Manufacturing Technologies; 72823I (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.831039
Event: AOMATT 2008 - 4th International Symposium on Advanced Optical Manufacturing, 2008, Chengdu, Chengdu, China

Abstract

An experimental system of a ternary logic optical computer, including its working principle, architecture and main components, is proposed. The main object of this paper is to give readers a holistic understanding of the ternary optical computer. This experimental system, which fully exploits the parallelism of optics, can have huge data bus width that is difficult for the general electronic computer to realize. The completeness of this system not only proves the feasibility of the ternary optical computer principle and the decrease-radix design theory, but also sets down a solid foundation for the research of the practicable hundreds-trit ternary optical computer.

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Zhang-Yi Shen, Yi Jin, and Jun-Jie Peng "Experimental system of ternary logic optical computer with reconfigurability", Proc. SPIE 7282, 4th International Symposium on Advanced Optical Manufacturing and Testing Technologies: Advanced Optical Manufacturing Technologies, 72823I (21 May 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.831039

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