The Design Of Three-Dimensional Optical Interconnection Networks Using Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals

Joe Shamir; Kristina M. Johnson

doi:10.1117/12.967386

1 January 1987 The Design Of Three-Dimensional Optical Interconnection Networks Using Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals

Joe Shamir, Kristina M. Johnson

Proceedings Volume 0813, Optics and the Information Age; (1987) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.967386
Event: 14th Congress of the International Commission for Optics, 1987, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

Optical computing systems offer potentially three advantages over electronic computing systems: speed, parallelism and highly interconnected architectures. Optics is well suited for performing interconnections because photons pass through one another without interacting. Therefore the density of interconnections in optical implementations can be quite high compared to those achieved in electronics (1). This is particularly exciting for neuromorphic computers, whose architectures require a large number of interconnections between processors, and for building programmable optical crossbars for high speed communications.

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Joe Shamir and Kristina M. Johnson "The Design Of Three-Dimensional Optical Interconnection Networks Using Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals", Proc. SPIE 0813, Optics and the Information Age, (1 January 1987); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.967386

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