Abstract
The achievement of low power all-optical bistability in small semiconductor devices at the end of the 1970's led to an upsurge in interest in all-optical information processing and optical computing. Based on the proven characteristics of existing bistable systems designs are put forward in this paper for a parallel optical integrator, using a single bistable element for full-adder operation. Optical storage or beam delay computational loops, and time-series to space-parallel conversion designs are presented. © 1985.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 87-92 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Optics Communications |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Publication status | Published - 15 Nov 1985 |