Optical Method of Performing the Operation of Matrix Multiplication

Author

Goncharenko, Igor A. ; Esman, Alexander K. ; Kuleshov, Vladimir K. ; Pilipovich, Vladimir A.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electron., Nat. Acad. of Sci., Minsk

fYear

2006

fDate

June 29 2006-July 1 2006

Firstpage

219

Lastpage

221

Abstract

We propose the method of all-optical performing the operation of matrix multiplication on the base of the matrix of waveguide ring microresonators. Information is processed immediately when it passes through the optical system, which performs the computation procedures, and with supply of the input data in parallel. The speed of such optical matrix processor is mtimes10¹⁰ vector multiplication per second, where m is the quantity of the used wavelengths that defines the number of rows of the multiplied matrix

Keywords

integrated optics; matrix algebra; micromechanical resonators; optical waveguides; matrix multiplication; optical matrix processor; waveguide ring microresonators; Microcavities; Optical arrays; Optical refraction; Optical resonators; Optical ring resonators; Optical variables control; Optical waveguides; Resonance; Semiconductor laser arrays; Transmission line matrix methods; matrix multiplication; resonant wavelength; ring microresonator; transmittance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Laser and Fiber-Optical Networks Modeling, 8-th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kharkiv

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0233-6

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0234-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LFNM.2006.252026

Filename

4018245