Programmable optical interconnect system

DETAILED DESCRIPTION This is an optical interconnect system.
The system comprises: at least one signal transmitter; at least two signal receivers; at least one DMD in the same plane as the signal transmitter; and a hologram, whereby the phase of the original beam from the signal transmitter may be programmably changed, by a DMD, such that the beams received at the signal receiver may cancel or reinforce.
The system preferably comprises at least two processing elements.
Each of the processing elements comprises: at least one signal transmitter; at least one signal receivers; and at least one DMD.
Preferably, the signal transmitter is a laser; the hologram is a computer generated hologram; the system connects one or more of the signal transmitters to one or more of the signal receivers; the system provides a connection network that is reconfigurable by programming the DMD; the system is a portion of a parallel computing system; the parallel computing system comprises an array of processors with integrated photosignal receivers and lasers; and the signal transmitter and the DMD may be in a different plane than the signal receivers.
This is also a method of optically connecting at least one signal transmitter to at least one signal receiver, the method comprises: receiving at the signal receiver at least two received beams, the received beams being a portion of an original beam divided at least once by a hologram and at least one of the received beams being reflected at least once by at least one DMD, with the DMD being in the same plane as the signal transmitter, whereby the phase of the original beam from the signal transmitter may be programmably changed, by a DMD, such that the beams received at the signal receiver may cancel or reinforce.