Wataru WATANABE, Jun TANIDA and Yoshiki ICHIOKA

Faculty of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1, Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, 565 Japan

(Received May 9, 1996; Accepted October 2, 1996)

As an application of optical parallel computing, optical implementation of the baker's map is studied. Using optically addressed spatial light modulators, an optical feedback system was constructed. We confirmed that a fractal set can be generated optically by iterative baker's map on an experimental system.

Key words : chaos, fractal, data continuity, optical parallel feedback