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Recent Advances in Photonic Devices for Optical Computing and the Role of Nonlinear Optics-Part IIThe twentieth century has been the era of semiconductor materials and electronic technology while this millennium is expected to be the age of photonic materials and all-optical technology. Optical technology has led to countless optical devices that have become indispensable in our daily lives in storage area networks, parallel processing, optical switches, all-optical data networks, holographic storage devices, and biometric devices at airports. This chapters intends to bring some awareness to the state-of-the-art of optical technologies, which have potential for optical computing and demonstrate the role of nonlinear optics in many of these components. Our intent, in this Chapter, is to present an overview of the current status of optical computing, and a brief evaluation of the recent advances and performance of the following key components necessary to build an optical computing system: all-optical logic gates, adders, optical processors, optical storage, holographic storage, optical interconnects, spatial light modulators and optical materials.
Document ID
20080039417
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Preprint (Draft being sent to journal)
Authors
Abdeldayem, Hossin (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Frazier, Donald O. (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Witherow, William K. (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Banks, Curtis E. (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Paley, Mark S. (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Date Acquired
August 24, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2007
Subject Category
Optics
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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