| 摘要 |
A cross connection apparatus and method for mixing and merging multiple arrays of high optical fan-out factors and multiple arrays of high optical fan-in factors with electronic fan-in and fan-out factors contained within a fiber coupled cross connection array. The cross connection array includes embedded combinational and/or sequential logic devices and an array of optical detectors for receiving optical input signals and an array of output emitters for transmitting optical output signals. The apparatus enables any digital logic scheme requiring combinational and/or sequential logic to be effected in a hybrid optical/electronic manner. This architecture allows a wide variety of combinational and/or sequential logic functions for digital computation and other processes to be carried out at very high rates of speed with increased efficiency.
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