Experimental free-space optical network for massively parallel computers

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1269-1281

  Araki, S ^b   Kajita, M ^b   Kasahara, K ^b   Kubota, K ^b   Kurihara, K ^b   Redmond, I ^a   Schenfeld, E ^a   Suzaki, T ^b  

^a NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

^b NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIBER OPTICS; LENSES; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PACKET SWITCHING; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; VLSI CIRCUITS;

DIFFRACTIVE MICROLENSES; FREE SPACE OPTICAL INTERCONNECTION; INTERCONNECTION CACHED NETWORK; MASSIVELY PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL ROUTING; VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS;

EID: 0030100382     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.001269     Document Type: Article

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