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  • 1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA.

Optics Letters
|December 11, 2007
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We designed a new optoelectronics module for faster database and text searching. This device uses guided-wave optics to achieve parallel processing speeds of 1 trillion bits per second.

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Area of Science:

  • Optoelectronics
  • Optical Computing
  • Information Retrieval

Background:

  • Current database and text processing methods often lack sufficient speed and parallelism.
  • Content-addressable memory (CAM) models offer a theoretical framework for parallel information retrieval.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To present a novel design for a polarization-insensitive optoelectronics module.
  • To enable parallel perfect-match searching for enhanced database and text processing.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing a planar guided-wave optics approach.
  • Implementing a content-addressable memory model for information retrieval.
  • Employing multiwavelength processing for high performance and parallelism.

Main Results:

  • The proposed module is polarization-insensitive, operating on intensity-based detection.
  • Achieved a theoretical aggregate processing speed of 10^12 bits/s.
  • Demonstrates significant potential for parallel information retrieval.

Conclusions:

  • The designed optoelectronics module offers a promising solution for high-speed parallel data processing.
  • Planar guided-wave optics combined with multiwavelength processing can achieve substantial performance gains.
  • This technology could revolutionize database and text processing applications.