Abstract

In the last few years extensive efforts have gone into the development of spatial light modulators (SLMs) for the realization of massively parallel optical processors [1-3]. The silicon-PLZT SLM approach is a promising approach and has the potential of combining the computational power of silicon with the communication power of optical interconnects [4]. Optical interconnects utilize the third dimension normal to the processing plane to provide the advantages of high speed parallel and global interconnections among simple silicon electronic circuits performing local computational operations. Fig. 1 shows the schematic of Si/PLZT SLM.

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