Materials for optical information processing.
01 January 1984
The goal for optical information processing is to use the unique characteristics of light which are not readily achieved with electronic devices: Namely, ultra-high speed (picosecond), a high degree of parallelism (i.e. image processing) and conductor- free interconnection. The requirements of the nonlinear materials to perform such functions using all-optical interactions are discussed and the limitations of the nonlinear mechanisms are outlined.