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Electronic
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Photonic
Converter
Fiber
optic
cables
Advantages...
Increase in the speed of computation.
Immune to electromagnetic interference.
Free from electrical short circuits.
Have low-loss transmission and large bandwidth.
Speed of light in photonic circuits will be close to
speed of light in vacuum
Capable of communicating several channels in
parallel without interference.
Possesses superior storage density and
accessibility
No power loss due to excess of heating.
Life of the hardware of optical computer is more.
Parallel communication
Optical computation
Light in the place of Electron
Uses optical components
Transistors, logical gates etc. are
simulated using optics.
All-optical components require a high
level of laser power to function as
required.
Send pulses of light instead of pulses
of electricity
Optical Components...
VCSEL-vertical
cavity surface emitting laser
VCSEL
A vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) is a
semiconductor-based laser diode that emits a
highly efficient optical beam vertically from its top
surface.
VCSELs have high performance and low cost
advantages
SLM
Aspatiallightmodulator(SLM)isanobjectthat
imposessomeformofspatially
varyingmodulationonabeamoflight.
when the phrase SLM is used, it means
that the transparency can be controlled
by acomputer.
Spatiallightmodulators,playanimportantrolein
opticalprocessing,forinputtinginformationonlight
Logical Gates
Logic gates are the building blocks of any digital
system. An optical logic gate is a switch that
controls one light beam with another. It is "on"
when the device transmits light, and "off" when it
blocks the light.
DRAWBACKS
Todays materials require much high power to
work in consumer products, coming up with the
right materials may take five years or more.
Optical computing using a coherent source is simple
to compute and understand, but it has many
drawbacks like any imperfections or dust on the optical
components will create unwanted interference pattern
due to scattering effects. Incoherent processing on the
other hand cannot store phase information .
CONCLUSION
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