Özaktaş, Haldun M.2016-02-082016-02-081997-06http://hdl.handle.net/11693/27702Date of Conference: 17-19 June 1997Conference name: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Massively Parallel Processing Using Optical Interconnections, 1997We review some of the relatively fundamental work in the area of optically interconnected digital computing systems. We cover comparisons of optical interconnections with other interconnection media in terms of energy and interconnection density, studies determining the optimal combination of optical and electrical interconnections that should be used, work on free-space optical interconnection architectures, complexity studies, and work on physical and logical system architectures and algorithms. We exclude work on devices, components, materials, and manufacturing.EnglishAlgorithmsComputational complexityComputer architectureComputer systemsDigital computersInterconnection networksFree space optical interconnectionsOptical interconnectsConference Paper10.1109/MPPOI.1997.609197