The speed of today's high performance electronic computers is increasingly limited by the number and bandwidth of the interconnections and by data storage and retrieval rates rather than by processing power. Optics, with its inherent parallelism and interconnection capabilities, can offer interesting solutions to help alleviate these limitations. In the last few years, many significant advances have been made in the development of optical computing hardware. This book gives an overview of the most recent research in the following areas: device technology (SEED, VSTEP and the macrolaser devices); micro-optic components (refractive, diffractive and integrated micro-optic packaging); optical interconnections (multistage interconnection networks, reconfigurable interconnections, spot array generation); 3-D optical memory using two-photon interaction; and architecture for optical computers and photonic switching systems.

Optical Computing Hardware

Computers & Technology

Jahns, Jürgen

Lee, Sing H.

Computer Science

Academic Pr

Die moderne Datenverarbeitung verlangt nach immer größeren Speichermedien und schnelleren Übertragungsraten. Optische Systeme, wie sie zum Beispiel die CD-Technologie oder die Glasfaser darstellen, bieten in vielen Fällen die leistungsfähigeren und billigeren Lösungen. Das vorliegende Buch bietet einen Einstieg in die spannende Technologie der Photonik. Nach der Behandlung der Grundlagen der Lichtausbreitung (Brechung, Beugung, Streuung, Polarisation, ...) wird die Physik passiver und aktiver Bauelemente erläutert. Schließlich werden Systemanwendungen in der Informationstechnik wie Glasfaserübertragung, optische Netze, CD-Technologie und Holographie vorgestellt.

Photonik: Grundlagen, Komponenten und Systeme (German Edition)

Walter de Gruyter

In the last few decades microoptics has become one of the fastest developing areas of optical research. New technologies for the fabrication of microoptical components have been adapted from Very Large Scale Integration processes. Parallel to passive microoptical components, optoelectronics research has lead to new miniaturised components which can be used as sources, detectors, or modulators for highly integrated optoelectronic systems. This book gives an overview over the field of 3D microoptics. It starts with an introduction to general aspects of microoptics such as its definition, and the performance and scaling behavior of optical components. Then it focuses on planar fabrication techniques for microoptical components and presents a variety of components and optoelectronic devices which can be produced by these techniques. The reader is lead to Array Optics and connected to hot topics such as Smart Pixels. The last third of the book presents applications which covers Optical Memories, Optical Interconnection Networks and Optical Computing. Advanced and research students as well as active scientists will find a text and reference book which leads them to the state of the art in the field of microoptics. Jürgen Jahns studied Physics. After he received his doctorate in 1978 he became a member of the Siemens technical staff in Munich. He worked on robotics, sensors and optical communications. 1986 he moved to AT&amp;T Bell Labs where he worked on optical computing, optical interconnections, diffractive optics, and mircooptic packaging. Since 1994 he has been a Full Professor for Optical Communications and Information Processing at the University of Hagen, Germany. He is member of the editorial advisory board of "Optics Communications" and feature editor for special issues of the "Journal of the Optical Society of America A" and "Applied Optics". Stefan Sinzinger received his doctorate in Physics 1993. Then he worked at the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, NJ. Since 1994 he has been a research assistant at the University of Hagen, Germany.

Microoptics

Science & Math

Sinzinger, Stefan

Jahns, J.

Physics

Wiley-VCH

Microoptics is an important enabling technology for many areas of application. In this updated second edition of their modern text and reference book, Stefan Sinzinger and Jurgen Jahns expertly and comprehensively present the basics and applications in microoptics, while incorporating the most important developments in recent years. An absolute must for physicists and electrical engineers, from advanced students right up to designers working in the field.

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

This first textbook on both micro- and nanooptics introduces readers to the technological development, physical background and key areas. The opening chapters on the physics of light are complemented by chapters on refractive and diffractive optical elements. The internationally renowned authors present different methods of lithographic and nonlithographic fabrication of microoptics and introduce the characterization and testing of microoptics. The second part of the book is dedicated to optical microsystems and MEMS, optical waveguide structures and optical nanostructures, including photonic crystals and metamaterials. Each chapter includes exercises illustrating a sample approach to new and complex topics, making the textbook suitable for lectures on optics as part of a physics or electrical engineering course.

Introduction to Micro- and Nanooptics

Helfert, Stefan

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