A Digital Design Methodology for Optical Computing

Nearly half of the content of this book comes from my Rutgers doctoral dissertation. My original intent was that this book should be a repackaged PH.D. thesis in the form of a monograph that promotes the message: Use regular free-space interconnects for optical computers. My aim was to steer the field of optical computing in this direction by providing convincing arguments that complicated, exotic means for interconnecting optical logic gates are unwarranted. That's the purpose of a monongraph - a narrow, deep expository on a single subject.