Abstract

Optical techniques can, in principle, provide an interconnection network for complex electronic systems with several important advantages over present electronic interconnections [1]. These advantages include increased interconnection density and bandwidth, as well as the potential for dynamic reconfigurability. In a computing system, for example, an optical data-communications network may allow for the use of massively parallel digital or analog computing schemes by relaxing the restrictions on data transfer imposed by electronic data busses.

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