Abstract

Optical computing techniques have excellent features for large capacity information processing, such as massively parallelism, high speed processing, crosstalk free interconnection capability, and so on. Among those features, reconfigurability of optical processing systems should be stressed. To utilize this excellent feature, we have considered flexible-structured computation with optical array logic (OAL).^1,2 The programmability of OAL is fully utilized for designing such a flexible-structured computing system.

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