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Science 9 November 1984:
Vol. 226. no. 4675, pp. 657 - 662
DOI: 10.1126/science.226.4675.657
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Materials for Optical Information Processing

A. M. Glass 1

1 Head of the Device Materials Research Department at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974.

The goal for optical information processing is to use the unique characteristics of light which are not readily achieved with electronic devices, namely, ultrahigh speed (picoseconds), a high degree of parallelism (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.


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