HIGH SPEED OPTICAL INTERCONNECTION PROTOCOLS FOR PARALLEL/DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING

OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS HAVE BECOME THE FUTURE TREND OF COMMUNICATION NETWORKS. A VARIETY OF OPTICAL INTERCONNECT HARDWARE HAS BEEN PROPOSED, BUILT AND DEMONSTRATED TO SHOW HIGH BANDWIDTH, HIGHLY-PARALLEL MULTIPLEXING OPERATIONS, AND BIDIRECTIONAL COMMUNICATION ABILITY. HOWEVER, MOST OPTICAL HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REALIZATIONS ARE IN EITHER LONG-DISTANCE TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS OR LOCAL AREA NETWORKS THAT HAVE DATA ROUTING AND MANAGEMENT REQUIREMENTS DIFFERENT FROM PARALLEL COMMUNICATIONS IN CONCURRENT COMPUTER SYSTEMS. BASED ON OUR PREVIOUS EXPERIENCES IN BUILDING OPTICAL INTERCONNECT NETWORKS (HARDWARE) FOR PARALLEL COMPUTERS (THROUGH SEVERAL GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS), PHYSICAL OPTICS CORPORATION (POC) PROPOSES TO DO IN-DEPTH RESEARCH INTO PROTOCOLS, DATA MANAGEMENT AND SIGNAL ROUTING THAT TAKE ADVANTAGE OF HIGH-BANDWIDTH, HIGHLY-PARALLEL OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS. SPECIFICALLY, SEVERAL PROTOCOLS WILL BE DEVELOPED AND EVALUATED IN THIS PHASE I PROGRAM. THE BEST PROTOCOLS OBTAINED FROM THIS PHASE I PROGRAM WILL BE SIMULATED IN BOTH SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE. FURTHERMORE, THE PROTOCOLS WILL BE TUNED TO SPECIFIC OPTICAL HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATIONS SUCH AS FIBER OPTICS, INTEGRATED OPTICS AND/OR HOLOGRAPHY.