Design and analysis of an optical communications processor

Q. Wang Song; Salim Hariri; Alok Choudhary

doi:10.1006/jpdc.1993.1021

Design and analysis of an optical communications processor

Q. Wang Song, Salim Hariri, Alok Choudhary

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We present an Optical Interface Message Processor (OPTIMP) that exploits the high bandwidth, parallelism, multidimensional capability, and high storage density offered by optics. Switching and routing functions are performed in the optical domain and thus OPTIMP does not suffer from the optical/electronic conversion bottleneck associated with current fiber optics networks. The source-destination (SD) information from a message is first converted to the spatial domain. The routing table stores all SD codes and the corresponding control codes for setting the switching network, The routing table is searched in parallel and control signals corresponding to the matched SD code are readout to configure the network. The optical implementation is based on S-SEED array technology. The power requirements and performance of OPTIMP based on the current technology are analyzed.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	222-229
Number of pages	8
Journal	Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Volume	17
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1006/jpdc.1993.1021
State	Published - Mar 1993

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