Abstract

This feature issue of Applied Optics: Information Processing contains 19 papers on Optical Computing. Many of these papers are expanded versions of presentations given at the Optical Society of America’s Sixth Topical Meeting on Optical Computing held in Salt Lake City, Utah, in March 1995. This introduction provides a brief historical account of the series of optical computing meetings and a brief review of the papers contained in this special issue.

© 1996 Optical Society of America

Optical computing: introduction by the feature editors

B. Keith Jenkins, Sing H. Lee, and C. Lee Giles
Appl. Opt. 31(26) 5423-5425 (1992)

Optical computing: introduction by the feature editors

H. Scott Hinton, Bernard Soffer, Frank A. P. Tooley, and Ken-ichi Yukimatsu
Appl. Opt. 33(8) 1335-1336 (1994)

Optical computing: introduction by the feature editors

Bernard Soffer and Sing H. Lee
Appl. Opt. 29(14) 1999-2000 (1990)

Optics in computing: introduction to the feature issue

Matthew W. Derstine, Andrew C. Walker, and Toyohiko Yatagai
Appl. Opt. 37(14) 2809-2810 (1998)

Optical computing: introduction by the guest editors to the feature in the 1 May 1988 issue

Ravindra A. Athale, Demetri Psaltis, and Kelvin Wagner
Appl. Opt. 27(9) 1641-1642 (1988)