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2 May 1994 Digital optical interconnects for photonic computing
Peter S. Guilfoyle, Richard V. Stone, Frederick F. Zeise
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Proceedings Volume 2153, Optoelectronic Interconnects II; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.174532
Event: OE/LASE '94, 1994, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Abstract
A 32-bit digital optical computer (DOC II) has been implemented in hardware utilizing 8,192 free-space optical interconnects. The architecture exploits parallel interconnect technology by implementing microcode at the primitive level. A burst mode of 0.8192 X 1012 binary operations per sec has been reliably demonstrated. The prototype has been successful in demonstrating general purpose computation. In addition to emulating the RISC instruction set within the UNIX operating environment, relational database text search operations have been implemented on DOC II.
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Peter S. Guilfoyle, Richard V. Stone, and Frederick F. Zeise "Digital optical interconnects for photonic computing", Proc. SPIE 2153, Optoelectronic Interconnects II, (2 May 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.174532
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Photomasks

Sensors

Spatial light modulators

Optoelectronics

Optical computing

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