Abstract
Cellular automata are a neighborhood logic, which transforms an array of data into a new one according to an evolution function among the neighboring cells. Cellular automata have extensive applications. Recently, optical implementations of 2-D cellular architectures become more interesting because they have the decided advantage of optical massively parallel interconnections.1-3 However, the most suggested optical systems have large size due to the necessary free-space propagation. For practical uses, it is reasonable to develop a new packaging technique to build a compact optical system along with a simple algorithm.
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