Use of wave aspects of light: a roadmap toward high-frequency clock delivery and an ultimately parallel and adaptive information processing
Abstract
Features of light are compared with those of electrons and other possible information carriers from a view point of computing and information processing, especially when they are used in future brain-type systems. It is described that the use of wave aspects of light leads to a realization of ultimately parallel and adaptive information processing systems. Two architecture examples utilizing such lightwave features are presented and discussed: (1) coherent optical neural networks and (2) coherent high-frequency clock delivery.
- Publication:
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Optics in Computing 1998
- Pub Date:
- May 1998
- DOI:
- 10.1117/12.308894
- Bibcode:
- 1998SPIE.3490...95H