Optical Information Technology: State-of-the-Art Report(ESPRIT Basic Research Series)

0 e This volume presents a set of papers on research in optical information technology conducted in Europe under the ESPRIT programme. Topics include active optical logic and switching devices, optical interconnect technology, and architecture and demonstrator projects.

Table of Contents:
Nonlinearities in GaAs Systems.- Nonlinear optical properties of GaAs/(AlGa) As multiple quantum wells under quasistationary high laser excitation and transversal electric fields.- Electroabsorptive/-refractive effects in asymmetric step quantum wells and BRAQWET structures.- Electrooptical modulation in vertical multiple quantum well microresonators.- Criteria for the use of nonlinear GaAs etalons for threshold logic.- Interconnect Technologies.- Synthesis of diffractive optical elements using electromagnetic theory of gratings.- The design of quasi-periodic Fourier plane array generators.- Microlenses in PMMA with high relative aperture fabricated by proton irradiation combined with monomer diffusion.- Fabrication of microoptic components by thermal imprinting.- Invariant pattern recognition: Towards neural network classifiers.- Holographic interconnect components for optical processing systems.- Binary multilevel, and hybrid holographic optical array illuminators.- II–VI-Compound Nonlinearities.- Wide bandgap II–VI light emitting devices.- Optical nonlinearities of CdS for optical addressing.- Optical nonlinearities and switching from excitons in II–VI semiconductors.- Prediction of large optical nonlinearities in quantum well wires.- Nonlinear optical properties of II–VI semiconductor quantum dots.- Optical Computer Architectures.- Optical input and output functions for a cellular automaton on a silicon chip.- Demonstration of an optical pipeline adder.- Performance and hardware requirements of parallel addition algorithms for optical implementation using SEEDs.- 2-D Parallel optoelectronic interconnect using a highly light sensitive monolithic receiver array.- O-CLIP — A demonstrator all-optical processor.- Design of a S-SEED cellular logic imageprocessor.- Thermo-Optic Devices.- Thermo-optical logic gate array using SOS waveguide.- Optical switches and oscillators based on thermally induced optical nonlinearities in II–VI semiconductors.- Thermally induced optical bistability in GaAs/(AlGa)As multiple quantum wells for application as a temperature sensor.- Chances for nonlinear optical switching elements.- III–V Bistability and Devices.- Subnanosecond switching and recovery in a Fabry-Perot etalon based on bulk heavily doped n-GaAs.- Optical bistability in quantum well semiconductor devices.- All optical bistability in a type II heterostructure.- Surface emitting laser diodes and wavelength break selective photodetectors.- The double heterostructure optical thyristor in optical information processing applications.- An architecture for a general purpose optical computer adapted to PNPN devices.- Architectural and Logic Structures.- Towards distributed statistical processing — Aquarium: A query and reflection interaction using magic: Mathematical algorithms generating interdependent confidences.- Computer-aided design of digital opto-electronic systems with HADLOP.- Microwave photonics.- Si-Based Devices.- Avalanche photodiodes for optical bistability.- On the feasibility of avalanche devices for optical switching in silicon.- Sensitivity and switching contrast optimization in an optical signal processing waveguide structure.- A Passive crystal pixel interchanger.- Attendees.