Two-photon three-dimensional memory

Susan Hunter; Fouad E. Kiamilev; Sadik C. Esener

doi:10.1117/12.20988

1 October 1990 Two-photon three-dimensional memory

Susan Hunter, Fouad E. Kiamilev, Sadik C. Esener

Proceedings Volume 1291, Optical and Digital Gallium Arsenide Technologies for Signal Processing Applications; (1990) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.20988
Event: 1990 Technical Symposium on Optics, Electro-Optics, and Sensors, 1990, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

A new type of memory device is presented which takes advantage of the volume of a storage material in order to achieve extremely high information density and capacity. The unique properties of two-photon materials allows for reading and writing to any localized region throughout the volume of material. In addition to the high capacity the 2-photon 3-D memory system has been designed to access up to 106 bits in a single clock cycle. This large parallelism combined with an access time of 1/1 sec gives a memory bandwidth of 1012 bits/sec. It is shown that this value of memory bandwidth far exceeds that available from current memory systems and therefore is well-suited for the demands of current and future supercomputing systems. 1.

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Susan Hunter, Fouad E. Kiamilev, and Sadik C. Esener "Two-photon three-dimensional memory", Proc. SPIE 1291, Optical and Digital Gallium Arsenide Technologies for Signal Processing Applications, (1 October 1990); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.20988

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