ASSOCIATIVE OPTICAL MULTICHANNEL CORRELATOR Russian patent published in 1995 - IPC

FIELD: computer engineering. SUBSTANCE: associative optical multichannel correlator has multichannel spectral emitting units, each possessing fixed emission parameter, light-conducting parametric multiplexors, light- conducting parametric combiner, optical multichannel modulator, group of light-conducting parametric splitters 8, group of spectral demultiplexors 9, 1-, photodetecting units 11,12, and control unit 13 provided with input 14-1, group of inputs 14-2, group of outputs 15-1. output 15-2, group of outputs 15-3, and output 15-4. Correlator functions to solve problem of associative retrieval of information in various devices by great number of polling flags which makes it possible to afford two-fold increase in its speed, reliability, quantity of simultaneously processed flags, and space-saving design. EFFECT: improved speed and capacity of correlator. 3 dwg