A Digital Optical Processing System

Howard Barr; Sing H. Lee

doi:10.1117/12.936148

15 April 1983 A Digital Optical Processing System

Howard Barr, Sing H. Lee

Proceedings Volume 0422, 10th Intl Optical Computing Conf; (1983) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.936148
Event: 10th International Optical Computing Conference, 1983, Cambridge, United States

Abstract

Digital optical processing (DOP) was conceived to encompass the advantages of both electronic and optical processors, which are parallelism, flexibility, and high accuracy. In this paper we discuss the concept of parallelism, how it applies to DOP differently than to Electronic Parallel Processing, and other potential advantages in using DOP. A PLZT device will also be described which can perform a series of logic or memory operations. From several of these PLZT devices a DOP is constructed to illus-trate some of its programmability features.

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Howard Barr and Sing H. Lee "A Digital Optical Processing System", Proc. SPIE 0422, 10th Intl Optical Computing Conf, (15 April 1983); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.936148

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