OPTICAL GENERAL BINARY CELLULAR-AUTOMATA FOR OPTICAL COMPUTING

Optical implementation of general binary cellular automata including r egular and hybrid cellular automata is proposed, which is based on opt ical neighborhood logic operations. All of 256 local rules of elementa ry cellular automata can be performed all optically by simply programm ing the structure of decoding mask. The optical processor can carry mu ltiple-instruction multiple-data processing, so it is flexible to be u sed for the design of optical computing systems. The simulated experim ents are given. Finally, optical implementation of 2-D cellular automa ta is discussed.