Optical Processing And Computing

Optical Processing and Computing is a collection of research from the USA, Canada, Russia, and Poland on the developments in the fields of digital optical computing and analog optical processing. This book is organized into 15 chapters and begins with an overview of the hierarchy of interconnect problems. Some chapters deal with the fundamental limitations and capabilities of optics in relation to interconnections, switching, computing, materials, and devices. Other chapters explore the architectures, technology, and applications of the field. The topics range from promising areas in the early stages of development, such as nonlinear effects in fibers that could bring about the optical transistor, to developments in areas ready for technology, such as the production of optical kinoforms, an important type of computer-generated optical component. With a strong focus on the fundamental aspects of the field, this book is of interest to specialists, researchers, and students who need a broad coverage of the principles of optical computing and of the underlying physics.

Optical Computers provides the first in-depth review of the possibilities and limitations of optical data processing.

Optical computing, namely information processing using light waves to represent the data, possesses some inherent advantage over electronic computing, in particular for massive data storage and parallell and neural processing. The main aim of the LS is to show how recent advances in lightwave technology make the time ripe to consider exploiting the potential of optical computing for data procesing applications. The LS will be opened with an overview of the basic concepts and inherent advantages of using optics for data processing and computing applications. The rest of the first day will be devoted to two topics: the use of optics for interconnecting computing devices and systems. The second day of the LS will be opened with an overview of the emerging field of artificial neural networks as a signal processing paradigm, and its hardware, and in particular its optical implementations. Finally, the LS will be concluded with a description of recent developments of optoelectronic data communication, and their forecasted effect on computing and data processing technologies.

What Is Optical Computing In optical computing, also known as photonic computing, light waves generated by lasers or other incoherent sources are used to perform computer tasks such as data processing, data storage, or data transfer. Photons have been shown their potential for some decades now to offer a larger bandwidth than the electrons that are employed in traditional computers. How You Will Benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Optical computing Chapter 2: Computing Chapter 3: Quantum computing Chapter 4: Timeline of quantum computing and communication Chapter 5: Photonic crystal Chapter 6: Quantum algorithm Chapter 7: Quantum network Chapter 8: Shlomi Dolev Chapter 9: Fiber laser Chapter 10: Interconnect bottleneck Chapter 11: Photonic integrated circuit Chapter 12: Silicon photonics Chapter 13: Computer-generated holography Chapter 14: Subwavelength-diameter optical fibre Chapter 15: Optical transistor Chapter 16: Orbital angular momentum multiplexing Chapter 17: Photonic molecule Chapter 18: Linear optical quantum computing Chapter 19: Integrated quantum photonics Chapter 20: JCMsuite Chapter 21: Quantum memory (II) Answering the public top questions about optical computing. (III) Real world examples for the usage of optical computing in many fields. (IV) 17 appendices to explain, briefly, 266 emerging technologies in each industry to have 360-degree full understanding of optical computing' technologies. Who This Book Is For Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of optical computing.

SPIE Critical Reviews cover a variety of optics-related topics.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the The Second International Workshop on Optical SuperComputing, OSC 2009, held in Bertinoro, Italy, in November 2009. The 18 revised full papers presented together with 1 invited lecture were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions for inclusion in the book. Being an annual forum for research presentations on all facets of optical computing for solving hard computation tasks, OCS addresses the following topics of interest: designs of optical computing devices, algorithmics and complexity issues of optical computing, computation representation by photons and holograms, neural and brain inspired architectures, electro-optic devices, practical implementations, analysis of existing devices and case studies, optical photonics and laser switching technologies, optical and photonic memories, optical signal processing subsystems, optical networks for high-performance computing, optical interconnections, quantum optical systems, applications and algorithms for optical devices, Alpha particles, X-rays, and nano-technologies for optical computing.