OPTICAL MEMORY UNIT Russian patent published in 1995 - IPC

FIELD: computer engineering. SUBSTANCE: memory unit has main and additional light sources, beam direction units, first units for shaping beams, first controlled transparency units, first units for focusing beams, reversible data locations, reading optical units, light separation elements, first matrices of photodetectors, second units for shaping beams, second controlled transparency units, second units for focusing beams, second matrices of photodetectors. In addition device has first and second input registers, first and second input commutators, control unit, unit for converting arrays, associative buffer memory unit, data selection unit, unit of registers, output commutator, first and second output registers. EFFECT: increased functional capabilities. 4 cl, 7 dwg