Holographic Optical Interleave System and Method
AssigneeAdvanced Communication Concepts, Inc.
InventorJonathan W. Ellis
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Abstract
A method and system for optical interconnections with backplanes, cache/memory, chip/die stacks, and mass storage in a supercomputing system. The method includes, but is not limited to, matching a plurality of transmitters to a plurality of receivers to a predetermined phase of an optical signal via a plurality of transmit holographic optical elements and a plurality of receive holographic optical elements; organizing the plurality of transmitters and the plurality of receivers to receive the optical signal via a reflective medium; and modulating the optical signal via the reflective medium from each transmit holographic optical element tuned to the associated receive holographic optical element.
Claims23
A method for providing a backplane using a holographic optical interleave, the method comprising:
- matching a plurality of transmit holographic optical elements to a plurality of receive holographic optical elements at a predetermined phase of an optical signal, each transmit holographic optical element of the plurality of transmit holographic optical elements tuned to a matched receive holographic optical element of the plurality of receive holographic optical elements;
- organizing the plurality of transmitters and the plurality of receivers to receive the optical signal via a reflective medium coupled to the plurality of receivers;
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- directing the optical signal via the reflective medium from each transmit holographic optical element tuned to the associated receive holographic optical element.
A method for enhancing a computer backplane employing free space, the method comprising:
- matching a plurality of transmit holographic optical elements to a plurality of receive holographic optical elements at a predetermined phase of an optical signal, each transmit holographic optical element of the plurality of transmit holographic optical elements tuned to a matched receive holographic optical element of the plurality of receive holographic optical elements;
- organizing the plurality of transmitters and the plurality of receivers to receive the optical signal via a reflective medium coupled to the plurality of receivers and the plurality of receivers;
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- enabling the computer backplane to employ free space by directing the optical signal via the reflective medium from each transmit holographic optical element tuned to the associated receive holographic optical element.
An apparatus comprising:
- a computer board;
- a plurality of transmitters having a source of an optical signal;
- a plurality of receivers aligned on a same plane as the plurality of transmitters to receive the optical signal;
- a plurality of holographic optical elements aligned in the same plane, each having a holographic transform function imposed thereon to filter one or more characteristics of the optical signal and a refractory function to align the optical signal from the plurality of transmitters to the plurality of receivers;
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- a reflective medium to direct the optical signal back to the plane.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.