Neil MCARDLE and Mohammad R. TAGHIZADEH

Department of Physics, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, Scotland, U.K.

(Accepted March 31, 1995)

In this letter we describe the advantages of a dynamic optical interconnection system for parallel information processing applications. The system is based on a liquid crystal television which acts as a binary phase-only spatial light modulator. We describe example algorithms where reconfigurable interconnects would be useful and present results of several interconnection topologies which have been implemented.

Key words : optical computing, dynamic optical interconnections, parallel processing, liquid crystal spatial light modulators, phase-only modulation