MULTIPLEXED HIGHLY-PARALLEL COMPUTER-TO-COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS

THIS PROJECT INVOLVES DEVELOPMENT OF A HIGHLY PARALLEL COMPUTER-TO-COMPUTER NETWORK (WITH A POTENTIAL OF GREATER THAN 2,000 COMPUTERS) TO BE USED AS THE NEXT GENERATION COMMUNICATION NETWORK. BASED ON WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (WDM) AND FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING SCHEMES, MANY COMPUTERS WILL BE ABLE TO COMMUNICATE CONCURRENTLY. SPECIFICALLY, WAVEGUIDE HOLOGRAPHIC TECHNOLOGY WILL PROVIDE TWO POWERFUL COMPONENTS FOR FUTURE COMMUNICATION NETWORKS. WAVEGUIDE WDMS CAN ACHIEVE GREATER THAN 100 MULTIPLEXED CHANNELS (OWING TO THE INCREASED INTERACTION LENGTH BETWEEN THE WAVEGUIDE HOLOGRAM AND GUIDEDWAVES) IN A SMALL (LESS THAN 2 X 2 CM(2)) RUGGED PACKAGE. WAVEGUIDE TUNABLE FABRY-PEROT RESONATORS CAN ACT AS VERY NARROW-BAND FILTERS (LESS THAN 1 ), BECAUSE OF THE SELF-ALIGNED HOLOGRAPHIC WAVEGUIDE MIRRORS AND LONG CAVITY LENGTH. WITH ONLY WAVEGUIDE WDMS IN THE NETWORK, COMPUTERS IN A WIDE AREA CAN BE CONNECTED IN A HIERARCHICAL MULTIPLE BUS STRUCTURE. WITH BOTH WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS IN THE NETWORK, COMPUTERS CAN COMMUNICATE IN A MULTIPLE CROSSBAR STRUCTURE. IN PHASE I, BOTH WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS WILL BE DEMONSTRATED EXPERIMENTALLY AND THEIR PERFORMANCE COMPARED WITH EXISTING STATE-OF-THE-ART COMPONENTS.