GYAN VIHAR

School of Engineering & Technology

A Seminar On

OPTICAL COMPUTERS
Submitted to: Mr. Naveen Hemrajani Head of the Department Computer Science Engineering Submitted by: Sudhanshu Shekhar B.Tech. IV Year, (VIII Semester)

OPTICAL COMPUTER

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OPTICAL COMPUTER
Optical computing describes a new technological approach for constructing computers processors and other components. An Optical Computer is a hypothetical device that uses visible light or infrared beams, rather than electric current, to perform digital computations.

OPTICAL COMPUTER

COMPONENTS OF OPTICAL COMPUTER

Hard Disk CPU Cache Memory Main Memory Power Supply Screen

Optical Components for Computing

VCSEL

SLM WDM OPTICAL MEMORY

VCSEL

SLM (Spatial Light Modulator)

WDM (Wide Division Multiplexer)

OPTICAL FIBRE

An Optical Computer Powered by Germanium Laser

GERMANIUM LASER

Concept of Picosecond
BY

NASA
Computers used to work in millisecond(1,000ths), then moved up to microseconds(millionths),and now are approaching nanoseconds(billionths) for logic operations and PICOSECOND(TRILLIONTHS) for the switches and gates in the chip.

ADVANTAGES . . . . .

DRAWBACKS
Optical Computing using a coherent source is simple to compute and understand, but it has many drawbacks like any imperfections or dust on the Optical Components will create unwanted interference pattern due to scattering effects.

FUTURE TRENDS
The Ministry of INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY has initiated a photonic development.

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