Abstract

For many years, optics has been cited as the technology of choice for communication. In applications such as telephones, cable TV, and local area networks, it seems that optical communication has proved to have technological and economical advantages. However, in the area of parallel processing, optics has not yet made an impact, despite a number of efforts to demonstrate various concepts and principles with extensive experiments and prototyping. It seems that, so far, a conclusive opinion has not been reached. Parallel processing systems still use electronic networks for inter-processor communication.

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