An optical system for full text search

Authors:
P. A. Mitkas;P. S. Guilfoyle
Affiliations:
Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY;OPTICOMP Corporation, P.O. Box 10779, Zephyr Cove, NV 89448
Venue:
SIGIR '89 Proceedings of the 12th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Year:
1989

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Abstract

In this paper we propose a full text search system based on optics. The storage and processing of the textual data are performed by an optical back-end system to an electronic computer. In this way we can take advantage of the speed and parallelism of digital optical processing. Using the proposed configuration we show how one might implement a set of text processing operations using lasers, spatial light modulators and photodetectors.