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 parameters of emission, groups of light-conducting parametric multiplexers, group of light-conducting parametric combiners, group of light-conducting parametric splitters, optical multichannel modulator, group of light-conducting parametric combiners 8, group of light-conducting parametric splitters 9, groups of spectral demultiplexers 10,11, photodetector units 12,13, and control unit 14 that has input 15-1, group of inputs 15-2, group of outputs 16-1, output 16-2, group of outputs 16-3, and output 16-4. Correlator functions to solve problem of associative information retrieval in various to solve problem of associative information retrieval in various devices by great number of polling flags which makes it possible to afford two-fold increase in its speed, reliability, quantity of flags processes simultaneously, space-saving design. EFFECT: improved speed and capacity of correlator. 3 dwg