Optical SuperComputing: First International Workshop, OSC 2008, Vienna, Austria, August 26, 2008. Proceedings

Shlomi Dolev (Editor), Tobias Haist (Editor), Mihai Oltean (Editor)

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Abstract

Optical computing has a seemingly external problem. It always appears to be in competition with electronic computing. Moor's law and the advantages of digital over analog processing make pure electronics superior in almost every case. Optical computing uses come when the heat load in hybrid optical-electronic chips. I describe here work done with a number of bright opticists and logicians over the last four years that produces using optics logic that dissipates no energy and accommodates whatever bandwidth the input and output laser modulation affords. Moreover, we can show why electronics alone can never accomplish those important properties.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationBerlin, Heidelberg
PublisherSpringer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Number of pages132
Volume5172
Edition1st ed. 2008
ISBN (Electronic)3540856730
ISBN (Print)978-3-540-85672-6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
PublisherSpringer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

Keywords

  • Optical Logic
  • zero energy
  • unlimited nandwidth

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