Content-addressable-memory-based single-stage optical modified-signed-digit arithmetic
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Optics Letters
|September 18, 2009
Abstract:
Using a novel nonholographic optoelectronic content-addressable memory in a free-space angular multiplexing geometry, a single-optical-stage compact parallel optical modified-signed-digit arithmetic processing architecture is proposed. Some spatial light modulator based experimental results are also presented.
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