Low-Cost Bistable Optical Device for Optical Computing Applications.
Abstract
The Phase I effort conclusively demonstrated the feasibility of the low-cost bistable optical device (BOD) technology. After developing the required material processes to fabricate prototype devices, we fabricated a series of small-scale prototypes, evaluated their performance and optimized the fabrication procedure. The resulting prototypes contained approximately 2500 independent resolution elements in 2.25 sq. cm active area, operated with an optical gain of greater than 2.0, dissipated less than 0.2 W/sq. cm of electrical power, switched at speeds greater than 1.0 Hz, latched images generated by a weak light emitting diode, operated in excess of twelve hours without suffering performance degradation, and required less than three dollars of raw materials to produce.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1987
- Accession Number
- ADA185511
Entities
People
- Cardinal Warde
- Robert Dillon