HIGHLY-PARALLEL HOLOGRAPHIC INTEGRATED PLANAR INTERCONNECTIONS

TO FILL THE NEED OF SECURED AND HIGH-BANDWIDTH STRATEGIC COMPUTING, A NOVEL OPTOELECTRONIC INTERCONNECT SYSTEM IS BEING DEVELOPED THAT NOT ONLY HAS THE NEEDED HIGH DENSITY PARALLEL INTERCONNECTABILITY FOR INTER-CHIP AND INTER-PROCESSOR COMMUNICATION, BUT ALSO PRESERVES THE DURABILITY AND COMPACTNESS COMPATIBLE WITH MONOLITHIC ELECTRONIC DEVICES. THIS CONFIGURATION IS BASED ON TWO HOLOGRAPHIC CONCEPTS FUNCTIONING TOGETHER WITH OPTOELECTRONICS IN INTERCONNECTING SIGNAL AMONG VLSI PROCESSORS OR SUBSYSTEMS. THE RESULTING INTERCONNECT CONFIGURATION COMBINES THE TWO HOLOGRAPHIC TECHNOLOGIES IN AN INTEGRATED OPTICS MONOLITHIC FORMAT THAT PERFORMS ULTRA-HIGH DENSITY INTERCONNECT OPERATIONS IN A CO-PLANAR MANNER. USING THIS APPROACH, TWO-DIMENSIONAL COHERENT OPTICAL INTERCONNECT AND PROCESSING IS BEING IMPLEMENTED IN A COMPACT FORMAT WITHOUT THE PACKAGING PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH BULK OPTICAL ELEMENTS. INTERCONNECTION ARCHITECTURE IN BOTH THE STATIC OR THE RECONFIGURABLE MODE CAN BE APPLICABLE TO HIGHLY PARALLEL SELF-ORGANIZED NEURO-OPTIC PROCESSORS, INTRA-COMPUTER CONNECTIONS AS WELL AS HIGH-HIERARCHY COMPUTER NETWORKS.