Introduction

doi:10.1117/3.2569178.ch1

Introduction

Book: An Introduction to Optics in Computers

Author(s): Henri H. Arsenault, Yunlong Sheng

Published: 1992

https://doi.org/10.1117/3.2569178.ch1

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Abstract

Within the past few years, the field of optical computing has grown considerably, and has become one of the major areas of optics. Optics has made its way into parts of digital computer systems, the parallelism of optics has been exploited to implement optical neural nets, and the development of technology promises optical components that can surpass the performance of electronic components found in digital computers. Some laboratories have promised all-optical computers in the near future.