OPTICAL INTERCONNECTION ARRANGEMENT

摘要

OPTICAL INTERCONNECTION ARRANGEMENT An arrangement comprising a plurality of reflection halograms positioned in a two-dimensional array for optically interconnecting a similar plurality of optically nonlinear optical devices also positioned in a two-dimensional array. In response to an interconnecting output light beam received in one direction from a specified device, the correspondingly positioned reflection halogram originates one or more interconnecting control light beams in different directions to other device in the device array. Each of the reflection halograms comprises an optical fringe pattern stored in a photosensitive material. Each fringe pattern was previously formed by coherent light beams propagating in a direction opposite to that of the interconnecting light beams and interfering in the photosensitive material.