ITR: Revolutionary Computing Using Ultrafast Optical Soliton Switching

wagner， kelvin科罗拉多大学itr：使用超快光孤子开关的革命性计算这个项目的目标是开发一种超高速（每秒太比特）信息处理、通信和计算的新技术。该技术基于光时空孤子，它是电磁能的局域包。基于二维和三维时空孤子相互作用的逻辑器件和计算架构将在理论和实验上进行研究。这些装置和系统将采用具有高阶光学非线性的材料以及人为结构的介质，以支持孤子传播和相互作用。这项研究预计将为一种强大、实用、紧凑、可级联和逻辑完整的交换技术提供基础，其处理速度和密度将超过现有的信息处理电子技术。

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.