Abstract
Current bulk acousto-optic processors calculate products very rapidly yet they suffer the following limitations: 1) the data is clocked into the processor thereby limiting the ultimate speed of the processor to that of the clock, 2) the processor is limited to matrix calculations, 3) an extremely stable, large platform is needed for the apparatus, and 4) a long time is needed to convert the mixed binary output to useable (at least to the rest of the computer world) pure binary.
© 1985 Optical Society of America
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