AP7014 OPTICAL COMPUTING

AP7014 OPTICAL COMPUTING

UNIT I OPTICAL COMPUTING PRINCIPLES

Non Von-Neuman architecture, various forms of parallel processing, SLM, LEDs, Lasers and Photo detectorsarrays, Holographic techniques, Optical storage devices. 

UNIT II DIGITAL LOGIC

Symbolic substitution, Image computing, Cellular logic, Boolean logic, Cellular arrays, Cellular hyper cubes, conventional hyper cube, Binary stack coded arithmetic, Binary Row coded, Binary symbol, Coded arithmetic multilevellogicprocessing. 

UNIT III OPTICAL COMPUTING ELEMENTS

ß switches, Machzender interferometeric logic elements for Boolean functions, Acousto optic; optical matrixmultipliers, Non linear opticalswitchesas memories. 

UNIT IV ANALOG OPTICAL COMPUTING

Linear opticprocessing, Analog optical arithmatics. Recognition byanalog optical system.

UNIT V DIGITAL OPTICAL COMPUTING

Devices, Shadow casting, Symbolic substitution, Optical matrix processing, Optical linear neural network. Nonlinearnetwork.

REFERENCES: 

1. A.Karim Mohammed and A.S.Abdul Awwall, Optical computing-An introduction, John Wiley, New York, 1992. 

2. Mc. Aulay Alastair.D, Optical Computer Architecture: The Application of optical concepts to next generation computers, JohnWiley, New York, 1991. 

3. Dror Feitelsen,Optical Computing, MIT press, Cambridge, 1988.