Abstract

Optical linear algebra processors (OLAPs) represent a most flexible and general-purpose class of optical system. In Section 2, we describe the architecture for a space and frequency-multiplexed OLAP. We detail (Section 2) how this system accommodates bipolar and complex-valued data and its use in matrix-vector processing. The electronic support system is described in Section 3. The optical system and initial experimental results obtained on it are detailed in Section 4.

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