Digital Optical Parallel Computing

H. Bartelt; A. Lohmann

doi:10.1117/12.943706

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27 March 1985 Digital Optical Parallel Computing

H. Bartelt, A. Lohmann

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Proceedings Volume 0492, 1984 European Conf on Optics, Optical Systems, and Applications; (1985) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.943706
Event: 1984 European Conference on Optics, Optical Systems and Applications, 1984, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Abstract

The development of the digital electronic computer was highly successful and its capabilities are still improving at a brisk rate. Are there any chances for digital optical computing? Indeed, there exist reasons to believe that an optical system can compete with electronic computing in some situations. We will analyze in the following first the basic aspects of optical computing and we will then describe as a laboratory example an optical, logical, parallel processor based on diffraction or scattering effects.

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H. Bartelt and A. Lohmann "Digital Optical Parallel Computing", Proc. SPIE 0492, 1984 European Conf on Optics, Optical Systems, and Applications, (27 March 1985); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.943706

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