Switching using optical tunnels

Details Switching using optical tunnels Switching using optical tunnels

1996-12-20

1998-08-11

Bovernick, Rodney B.

Optical waveguides

With optical coupler

Switch

385113, 359117, 2502082, 2502084, G02B 600

Patent

active

057939063

ABSTRACT:
In a supercomputer that employs a large number of processors operating in parallel, groups of processors are assembled in clusters. Each processor in a cluster is provided with an array of lasers, a different one targeted for a particular detector associated with a specific processor of a different cluster. The detectors associated with the processors in the different cluster are assembled into an array of detectors. A processor wishing to communicate with a processor in a different cluster excites the laser in its associated array that is targeted to the detector of the processor with which it intends to communicate. The patterns of light of the various laser arrays are superimposed into one pattern focused on the detector array by means of an optical tunnel and a spherical lens.

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