Optical computing: a survey for computer scientists
Optical computing: a survey for computer scientists
Optical computer architectures: the application of optical concepts to next generation computers
Optical computer architectures: the application of optical concepts to next generation computers
Discrete-time signal processing (2nd ed.)
Discrete-time signal processing (2nd ed.)
Optical Computing: An Introduction
Optical Computing: An Introduction
Introduction to Algorithms
Design of an interconnect architecture and signaling technology for parallelism in communication
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
The traveling beams optical solutions for bounded NP-complete problems
FUN'07 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Fun with algorithms
Nanotechnology based optical solution for NP-hard problems
OSC'10 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Optical supercomputing
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We present a vector-by-matrix multiplier architecture incorporating the high potential of optical computing within electronics. This architecture stems from advances in optical switching technology, optical communication, and laser on silicon, and overcomes previous bottlenecks implied by the speed of transferring information to the optical vector-by-matrix multiplier. Based on this architecture, we present in detail a feasible electro-optical DSP co-processor that can obtain more than 16-Tera integer operations per second. The use of the new architecture for several principal DSP applications is detailed, showing a significant improvement of at least two orders of magnitudes, over existing DSP technologies. Examples of possible applications, including motion estimation engine, string matching, and geometry engine systems, are provided. In addition, the architecture enables an improvement of previous solutions to bounded NP-complete problems by extensively reducing the size of the solver, while preserving an efficient computation time.