ITR: Revolutionary Computing Using Ultrafast Optical Soliton Switching

EIA-0082907瓦格纳，科罗拉多州凯尔文大学ITR：使用超高速光孤子交换的革命性计算该项目的目标是开发一种用于超高速(每秒太比特)信息处理、通信和计算的新技术。这项技术是基于光时空孤子的，光时空孤子是局域的电磁能量包。基于二维和三维时空孤子相互作用的逻辑器件和计算结构将从理论和实验两个方面进行研究。这些设备和系统将使用具有高阶光学非线性的材料，以及为支持孤子传播和相互作用而设计的人工结构介质。这项研究有望为一种健壮、实用、紧凑、级联和逻辑上完整的交换技术提供基础，使其处理速度和密度超过现有信息处理电子设备的处理速度和密度数量级。

EIA-0082907Wagner, KelvinUniversity of ColoradoITR: Revolutionary Computing Using Ultrafast Optical Soliton SwitchingThe objective of this project is to develop a new technology for ultra high speed (terabit per second) information processing, communication, and computing. The technology is based on optical spatio-temporal solitons, which are localized packets of electromagnetic energy. Logic devices and computing architectures based on the interactions of spatio-temporal solitons in two and three dimensions will be investigated theoretically and experimentally. These devices and systems will employ materials with high order optical nonlinearities as well as artificially structured media designed to support soliton propagation and interactions. This research is expected to provide a foundation for a robust, practical, compact, cascadable, and logically complete switching technology with processing speed and density orders of magnitude beyond those of existing information-processing electronics.