Title
Optics Goes Where No Electronics Can Go: Zero-Energy-Dissipation Logic
Abstract
Optical computing has a seemingly eternal problem. It always appears to be in competition with electronic computing. Moore's law and the advantages of digital over analog processing make pure electronics superior in almost every case. Optical computing uses come when the signal is already in the optical domain or when it is used to reduce the heat load in hybrid optical-electronic chips. I describe here work done with a number of bright opticists and logicians over the last four years that produces using optics logic that dissipates no energy and accommodates whatever bandwidth the input and output laser modulation affords. Moreover, we can show why electronics alone can never accomplish those important properties.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1007/978-3-540-85673-3_1
OSC'10 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Optical supercomputing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
zero energy,chip,optical computing,energy dissipation
Conference
6748
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
1
0.38
References 
Authors
2
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
H. John Caulfield1443164.79