Abstract:
A memory cartridge for use with a TV game machine. It has a plurality of memories containing picture images such as game characters, messages and letters, a memory containing a sound program and a memory for synthesizing sound. The memories containing picture images have their data buses connected to a pin connector through a parallel-serial converter circuit to reduce the number of pins forming the pin connector.
Abstract:
A fully optical random access memory device is disclosed having an opto-electronic substrate. A write beam, having a wavelength within the absorption band of the opto-electronic substrate, and a read beam, having a wavelength outside the absorption band of the opto-electronic substrate, are used to read and write information to the fully optical random access memory (26). The noninvasive optical reading of information provides a device capable of sub-nanosecond access times.
Abstract:
A memory comprises a multilayer film (1) in which each layer (2) is capable of carrying a charge, built up by successive deposition of a plurality of monomolecular layers (2), at least one of which has been deposited by a process of chemisorption and a photo-injector layer(D) is located on one side of the film for introducing charges into the film in a time sequence which corresponds to the information to be carried. Means (6) are provided for applying a voltage between the faces of the film to cause the charge carried by any layer to be transferred to the adjacent layer. The sequence of charges carried by the film may be read out by a photon-emitting electron arrival detector (F) on the opposite side ofthefilm, or by a method of current differentiation. The film (1) is preferably formed of a polydiacetylene.
Abstract:
A semiconductor optical memory device comprises a semiconductor layer (11) formed with a plurality of elemental recording areas (201 - 20n) each having a size generally equal to a wavelength of the optical beam, and a plurality of quantized regions (11c, 11e) formed in each elemental recording area of the semiconductor layer, wherein each of the quantized regions has a quantized energy level and absorbing an optical radiation of which wavelength is pertinent to the quantized energy level of that quantized region by forming first type carriers having a first polarity and second type carriers having a second, opposing polarity. Each of the quantized regions comprises a semiconductor material confined in at least two mutually perpendicular directions to form said quantized energy level and has the optical absorption wavelength that is different from that of other quantized regions included in each elemental recording area.
Abstract:
A memory cartridge for use with a TV game machine. It has a plurality of memories containing picture images such as game characters, messages and letters, a memory containing a sound program and a memory for synthesizing sound. The memories containing picture images have their data buses connected to a pin connector through a parallel-serial converter circuit to reduce the number of pins forming the pin connector.
Abstract:
Die Erfindung betrifft eine Anordnung zur Umwandlung von Informationen aus der elektrischen Form in die optische Form (und umgekehrt), wobei die optische Informationsform eine in einer, zwei oder drei Richtungen zeitlich variierende Lichtintensität ist und wobei die Umwandlung der Informa tion aus der elektrischen in die optische Form durch opti sche Modulatoren, z. B. Flüssigkristalle, erfolgt und die Um wandlung aus der optischen Form in die elektrische Form durch Fotodetektoren erfolgt. Die optischen Modulatoren und die Fotodetektoren werden zeitlich von einem oder mehreren elektrooptisch rückgekoppelten Kreisen ge steuert oder abgetastet, in denen sich mindestens ein opti scher Modulator 2 im Strahlengang zwischen mindestens einer Lichtquelle 3, z. B. einer Leuchtdiode oder Laserdiode, und mindestens einem Fotodetektor 4, z. B. einem Fotowi derstand oder einer Fotodiode, befindet. Der Fotodetektor 4 ist in mindestens einen elektrischen Kreis 4, 5, 6 einge schaltet, an welchen der optische Modulator 2 derart ange schlossen ist, daß man über einen Rückkopplungskreis, dessen Verhalten - in Kreisrichtung gesehen - bestimmt wird durch die Lichttransmission des optischen Modulators 2, die elektrische Eigenschaft des Fotodetektors und das elektrische Eingangssignal des optischen Modulators 2, eine positive und negative Rückkopplung erhält. Die elek trooptisch rückgekoppelten Kreise können auch mehr als einen optischen Modulator und Fotodetektor enthalten, aus denen eine elektooptisch rückgekoppelte Kreuzschaltung aufgebaut wird.
Abstract:
An all-optical flip-flop device is achieved by employing two optical amplifiers (150,160) arranged so that they together operate in only one of two stable states at a given time. In a first stable state of operation, the first optical amplifier (150) behaves as a laser having a first predetermined characteristic wavelength. The arrangement is switched to a second stable state of operation in which the second optical amplifier (160) behaves as a laser having a second characteristic wavelength, where the first and second characteristic wavelengths are at least nominally different, when an optical signal pulse is received at the input (SET) of the first optical amplifier. The arrangement is switched back to the first stable state when an optical signal pulse is received at the input (RESET) of the second optical amplifier.
Abstract:
A semiconductor optical memory device comprises a semiconductor layer (11) formed with a plurality of elemental recording areas (201 - 20n) each having a size generally equal to a wavelength of the optical beam, and a plurality of quantized regions (11c, 11e) formed in each elemental recording area of the semiconductor layer, wherein each of the quantized regions has a quantized energy level and absorbing an optical radiation of which wavelength is pertinent to the quantized energy level of that quantized region by forming first type carriers having a first polarity and second type carriers having a second, opposing polarity. Each of the quantized regions comprises a semiconductor material confined in at least two mutually perpendicular directions to form said quantized energy level and has the optical absorption wavelength that is different from that of other quantized regions included in each elemental recording area.