Development of free-space digital optics in computing

Computer

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 38-44

  Gourlay, James ^a,b   Yang, Tsung Yi ^a,c,d,e   Dines, Julian A B ^a,f   Snowdon, John F ^a,g   Walker, Andrew C ^a,d,h  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^e IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^g OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^h The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

FREE SPACE OPTICAL METHODS; SMART PIXEL OPTOELECTRONIC METHODS;

OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 0031999744     PISSN: 00189162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2.652914     Document Type: Review

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