Abstract
Initial efforts at building an optical digital computer involved trying to make exact optical equivalents of electronic gates and memories. The optical gates were either noncascadable or two-port devices. The optical memories were slow, expensive, awkward, and failed to use the high bandwidth, parallel communications capabilities of optics.
© 1986 Optical Society of America
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