Abstract
Today, we live in the midst of an information explosion. The rapid development of computing and telecommunications technologies in the 1980s has opened an entirely new world. In spite of the expanding capacity for storing and retrieving information, needs for that capacity seem to be increasing in lockstep. Most recently, the development of parallel processing computers has not only exploited this expanding capacity, but it has placed a burden on designers to find ways to implement it. This burden, existing in both software and hardware domains, must be met in a balanced way, i.e., hardware solutions must help relieve software and architectural bottlenecks, and architectural solutions must not box hardware designers into physical design cul de sacs. Among the numerous hardware solutions available to the designer, optoelectronics is emerging as a design alternative. The decision to implement optoelectronics in an electronic environment is a systems level one. To be viable, the optoelectronic alternative must offer performance enhancement, and at an acceptable cost.
© 1992 Optical Society of America
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