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PARALLEL PROCESSING BASED ON WAVELENGTH/ANGULARLY MULTIPLEXED HOLOGRAPHY
Phone: (213) 320-3088
TO REALIZE THE FULL POTENTIAL OF PARALLEL PROCESSING FOR MILITARY INFORMATION PROCESSING APPLICATIONS, IT IS NECESSARY TO INTERCONNECT A GREAT NUMBER OF PROCESSORS TOGETHER IN A VERY DENSE MANNER. UNFORTUNATELY, ELECTRONICS SUFFER FROM CAPACITIVE AND RADIATIVE FAN-OUT LIMITATIONS THAT GREATLY CONSTRAIN THE NUMBER OF INTERCONNECTIONS/PROCESSORS. OPTICAL INTERCONNECTIONS, ON THE OTHER HAND, ARE LESS CONSTRAINED AND DO NOT REQUIRE A MATERIAL PATH BETWEEN INPUT AND OUTPUT PORTS. IN ADDITION, THE FLEXIBILITY OF HOLOGRAPHY TO ENABLE HIGH FAN-OUT INTERCONNECTIONS WITH LOW LOSS AND CROSSTALK ALLOWS MORE ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURES TO BE CREATED. FURTHER, BY DEVELOPING MULTIPLEXTED GRATINGS THAT ARE ANGULAR AND WAVELENGTH MULTIPLEXED, IT IS POSSIBLE TO CREATE MORE POWERFUL AND FLEXIBLE INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS THAN TYPICAL FAN-OUT HOLOGRAPHIC NETWORKS CAN ACHIEVE. THIS ALLOWS BOTH MULTIPLE INTERCONNECTION PATTERNS OR ADDRESSABLE INTERCONNECTIONS TO BE CREATED THAT GIVE REAL-TIME RECONFIGURATION CAPABILITIES WITH STATIC HOLOGRAMS BY CHANGIING EITHER THE INCIDENT ANGLE OR WAVELENGTH. THUS, PHYSICAL OPTICS CORPORATION (POC) PROPOSES TO FABRICATE A PROTOTYPE OPTICAL INTERCONNECTION NETWORK BASED ON ANGULAR AND WAVELENGTH MULTIPLEXED GRATINGS FOR ADVANCED PARALLEL PROCESSING INTERCONNECTION APPLICATIONS.
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