• DocumentCode
    2343472
  • Title

    Metaphoric optical computing

  • Author

    Tsang, Mankei ; Psaltis, Demetri

  • Author_Institution
    California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    25-27 July 2005
  • Firstpage
    183
  • Lastpage
    184
  • Abstract
    In this paper, the authors use optical wave propagation in nonlinear media as a method for investigating nonlinear dynamical behavior of complex systems that are not optical. The basic idea is to construct an optical system whose nonlinear dynamics are related to the system we wish to simulate. We have shown that there are important classes of computationally difficult problems in finding a suitable optical simulator.
  • Keywords
    light propagation; nonlinear optics; complex systems; metaphoric optical computing; nonlinear dynamical behavior; optical wave propagation; Biomedical optical imaging; Fluidics; Nonlinear optics; Optical beams; Optical computing; Optical mixing; Optical propagation; Optical pulse shaping; Optical solitons; Optical vortices;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    LEOS Summer Topical Meetings, 2005 Digest of the
  • ISSN
    1099-4742
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8981-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/LEOSST.2005.1528054
  • Filename
    1528054