Fundamental limits on bandwidth, efficiency, and parallelism in all-optical and hybrid fan-in

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 2726-2736

  Euliss, G W ^a   Athale, R A ^b  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY;

ANALOG ARCHITECTURE; CONSTANT RADIANCE THEOREM; FAN IN RATIO; OPTICAL FAN IN; OPTICAL POWER EFFICIENCY;

OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS;

EID: 0031248145     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.14.002726     Document Type: Article

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