A MINIMIZATION SCHEME OF OPTICAL SPACE-VARIANT LOGICAL OPERATIONS IN A COMBINATIONAL ARCHITECTURE

摘要

A lot of work on optical logical operations has been reported by scientists and technologists for the last few decades. Optical space-variant logical operations by spatial cellular encoding techniques have also taken a major step in this regard. The present authors here propose an optical process which parallel accommodates all the possible logical operations in a reduced and compact space. This combinational architecture can be extended to the multiple instruction multiple data (MIMD) based optical processors. [References: 14]