Optical Array Processor: Laboratory Results

David Casasent; James Jackson; Gerard Vaerewyck

doi:10.1117/12.937001

8 January 1987 Optical Array Processor: Laboratory Results

David Casasent, James Jackson, Gerard Vaerewyck

Proceedings Volume 0700, 1986 Intl Optical Computing Conf; (1987) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.937001
Event: 1986 International Computing Conference, 1986, Jerusalem, Israel

Abstract

A Space Integrating (SI) Optical Linear Algebra Processor (OLAP) is described and laboratory results on its performance in several practical engineering problems are presented. The applications include its use in the solution of a nonlinear matrix equation for optimal control and a parabolic Partial Differential Equation (PDE), the transient diffusion equation with two spatial variables. Frequency-multiplexed, analog and high accuracy non-base-two data encoding are used and discussed. A multi-processor OLAP architecture is described and partitioning and data flow issues are addressed.

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David Casasent, James Jackson, and Gerard Vaerewyck "Optical Array Processor: Laboratory Results", Proc. SPIE 0700, 1986 Intl Optical Computing Conf, (8 January 1987); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.937001

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