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Looking back at the history of computing technology, it has been found that the gradual integration of advanced optics into existing electronic computer systems and making the optical technology and devices gradual dominate in computer systems, which gradually developed into the optical technology as the core of the computer system, and even all-optical computer, will be the future development trend of high-performance computers. Therefore, we have no reason not to start from now on the realization of all-optical computer technology and device research for preparation.
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Li, X., Shao, Z., Zhu, M., Yang, J. (2018). Optical Buffer and Full-Optical Synchronization. In: Fundamentals of Optical Computing Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3849-5_7
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