INSPIRE Track 1: An Optical Turing Machine for Native Computing Using High-Capacity Transmission Modulation Format Symbols

该INSPIRE奖部分由计算机和信息科学与工程局、计算机和信息科学与工程局以及工程局计算机和网络系统处的NetTS计划资助。该项目将设计和建造“光学图灵机”（OTM），这是一种数字设备，使用与长距离，支持每秒太比特的高速传输。它通过使用用于传输的相同符号进行计算来集成计算和通信，这使得能够对网络数据进行本地光学处理，同时避免昂贵的光-电-光转换或调制格式转换（例如，串行到并行）。具体到NSF INSPIRE计划，OTM探索了网络内高速处理，需要跨网络，计算和光学设备的并行跨学科开发。 它涉及到调制的新观点，以支持计算，算法转换为串行架构和系统设计的基础上的网络的限制，不能从任何一个单一的Vantage点或焦点。OTM激发串行计算的研究，高阶逻辑算法，同态变换，大数据分析的新方法，和新的有源光学器件。OTM通过以潜在的较低功耗和复杂性实现更快的通信和计算，以远远超过当前电子处理能力的速率支持增强的网络内隐私、纠错和分组服务能力，从而使社会受益。如果成功，它也提供了一个机会，重新审视几十年来光学计算尝试的基本假设。跨CS和EE的交叉出版将增强这一效果。

This INSPIRE award is partially funded by the NeTS program in the Division of Computer and Network Systems in the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, and the Directorate for Engineering.This project will design and build "The Optical Turing Machine" (OTM) a digital device that computes using a optical data modulation format compatible with long-distance, high-speed transmission to support terabit-per-second. It integrates computation and communication by computing with the same symbols used for transmission, which enables native optical processing of network data while avoiding costly optical-electronic-optical conversion or modulation format conversion (e.g., serial to parallel). Specific to the NSF INSPIRE program, OTM explores in-network high-speed processing that necessitates concurrent cross-disciplinary development across networking, computation, and optical devices. It involves new perspectives on modulation to support computation, the transformation of algorithms into serial architectures and system design based on the needs of networking within the constraints of optical capabilities that cannot be developed from any single vantage point or focus.OTM motivates research in serial computation, algorithms in higher-order logic, homomorphic transforms, new methods for big data analysis, and new active optical devices. OTM benefits society by enabling faster communication and computation at potentially lower power and complexity, supporting enhanced in-network capabilities for privacy, error correction, and packet services at rates far in excess of those capable by current electronic processing. If successful, it also provides an opportunity to reexamine the fundamental assumptions of several decades of attempts at optical computing. Cross-publication across both CS and EE will enhance this effect.