Feasibility study of a scalable optical interconnection network for massively parallel processing systems

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1296-1308

  Louri, Ahmed ^a   Furlonge, Stephen ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Holographic grating; Hypercube; Interconnection network; Mesh; Modeling; Optical interconnect; Parallel computing; Scalability; Space invariance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345007059     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.001296     Document Type: Article

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