A

Technical Seminar Report

On

“OPTICAL COMPUTING”

Submitted

By

G ABHINAY REDDY 14K91A0459

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION

ENGINEERING

TKR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

(Accredited by NBA, Approved by AICTE & Affiliated to JNTUH)

Medbowli, Meerpet, Saroornagar, Hyderabad-500079

2017-2018
 CERTIFICATE

This is to certify that technical seminar entitled “OPTICAL COMPUTING” is

being submitted by

G ABHINAY REDDY 14K91A0459

is a record of bonafide work carried out by him during the academic year 2017-18, under the
guidance and supervision of

Ms.K.SUDHARANI

Assoc. professor

Internal guide and Coordinator

Ms. A.LAVANYA Dr D. NAGESHWAR RAO

Asst. professor Head of the Department

Coordinator ECE

External Examiner:
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Any attempt at any level can’t be satisfied completely without the report and guidance of
learned people. These words are not enough to show our gratitude towards them. I would like
to express our token of thanks to them.

I would like to express our immense gratitude to Ms.K.SUDHARANI Assoc. professor

for guiding and correcting various documents with lot of attention and care.

I would like to thank our technical seminars coordinator Ms.K.SUDHARANI,

Assoc.professor and Ms.A.LAVANYA, Asst.professor for co-operating with us and
correcting various documents with lot of attention and care.

I would like to convey our sincere thanks to Dr. D. NAGESHWAR RAO, HOD,
department of ECE for his constant support and motivation that has encouraged us to come up
with technical seminars.

I express our thanks to Principal Dr D.V. RAVISHANKAR, for extending his support
and encouraging us throughout the seminars.

I would also like to thank our faculty members without whom this seminars would have
been a distant reality.

By

G ABHINAY REDDY 14K91A0459

 INDEX

S.NO Chapter Name Page No

1. INTRODUCTION 1

2. NEED FOR OPTICAL COMPUTING 2

3. SOME KEY OPTICAL COMPONENTS FOR COMPUTING 3

3.1 VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER 3

3.2 SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS 4

3.3 SLM FOR DISPLAY PURPOSE 5

3.4 SMART PIXEL TECHNOLOGY 5

3.5 WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING 6

4. ROLE OF NLO IN OPTICAL COMPUTING 7

5. ADVANCES IN PHOTONIC SWITCHES 8

6. OPTICAL MEMORY 10

7. APPLICATIONS

7.1 APPLICATIONS 12

7.2 MERITS 13

7.3 DRAW BACKS 13

8. 8.1 FUTURE TRENDS 14

8.2 CONCLUSION 15

8.3 REFERENCES 15
 LIST OF FIGURES

S.No Figure Name Page No

1. Optical computer 1
2. Vertical cavity surface emitting laser ` 3
3. Optical interconnection of circuit board using VCSEL 4
and photodiode
4. Wavelength division multiplexing 6
5. Optical AND logic gate 9
9. Optical disk 11
 ABSTRACT

Optical computing describes a new technological approach for constructing

computer's processors and other components. Instead of the current approach of
electrically transmitting data along tiny wires etched onto silicon. optical computing
employs a technology called silicon photonics that uses laser light instead. This use of
optical lasers overcomes the constraints associated with heat dissipation in today's
components and allows much more information to be stored and transmitted in the
same amount of space.
Optical computing means performing computations, operations, storage and
transmission of data using light. Optical technology promises massive upgrades in the
efficiency and speed of computers, as Ill as significant shrinkage in their size and cost. An
optical desktop computer is capable of processing data up to 1,00,000 times faster than
current models.

Visible light and IR beams, unlike electric currents, pass through each other without
interacting. Many laser beams can be shone so their paths intersect, but there is no
interference among beams, even when they are confined to two dimensions. Electric currents
may be guided around each other, making three dimensional wiring necessary. Thus an
optical computer, besides being much faster than an electronic one, can also be smaller.