Title :
Bit-parallel selfrouting optoelectronic switching fabrics for massively parallel wide-format data processing: principle and optical architecture
Author_Institution :
Inst. for High-Performance Comput. Syst., Acad. of Sci., Moscow, Russia
Abstract :
Three types of optoelectronic architectures for N×N high-performance switching fabrics with multibit word parallel data transmission through connected pairs of free-space optical channels are considered. The fabrics differ in their functional capability to realize selfrouting strictly nonblocking conflict-free networking under arbitrary call requests. The possibility of creating such networks from laser and photodetector arrays, smart pixel structures, free-space optics, lenslets or selfoc lens arrays, and electronic control circuits is discussed
Keywords :
optical information processing; optical interconnections; parallel architectures; VCSEL technology; bit-parallel; completely connected networks; conflict-free networking; free space optical interconnections; high-performance switching fabrics; massively parallel; nonblocking; optoelectronic architectures; selfrouting optoelectronic switching fabrics; smart pixel arrays; word parallel data transmission; Communication switching; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Fabrics; Optical arrays; Optical buffering; Optical fiber networks; Optical interconnections; Optical network units; Smart pixels;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel Architectures, Algorithms, and Networks, 1997. (I-SPAN '97) Proceedings., Third International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Taipei
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8259-6
DOI :
10.1109/ISPAN.1997.645140
