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A Survey of Optical Information Processing in Some Advanced Data Processing Applications

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The state-of-the-art within the information processing industry is reviewed and a comparison made with that of optical approaches to define those areas where the latter may play a role. As a case in point, the various elements of the automated office are examined from the point-of-view of pinpointing those areas where optical approaches might displace existing technologies. Since these technologies present a moving target, new candidates cannot enter the marketplace, unless they offer significant price and/or performance advantages. It is concluded that optical technologies have at best a negligible chance of entering the storage marketplace in the next decade and then only at the very high end. However, they have a more significant opportunity for success in communications, and they have all but arrived in input and output devices.

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  1. IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York, 10598, USA

    E. S. Barrekette

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  1. International Business Machines Corporation, Yorktown Heights, New York, USA

    Euval S. Barrekette

  2. State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York, USA

    George W. Stroke

  3. Institute of Automation, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Siberian Branch, Novosibirsk, USSR

    Yu. E. Nesterikhin

  4. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

    Winston E. Kock

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Barrekette, E.S. (1978). A Survey of Optical Information Processing in Some Advanced Data Processing Applications. In: Barrekette, E.S., Stroke, G.W., Nesterikhin, Y.E., Kock, W.E. (eds) Optical Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7545-0_23

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