Thomas Allen Disselkamp spearheads a range of technical R&D efforts as a product development specialist with the 3M Company in St. Paul. Thomas Disselkamp has worked with 3M since 1981. An electrical engineer who studied a number of optics subjects at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Tom Disselkamp continues to foster a targeted professional interest in the applications of optical signal processing.
A form of extremely fast computer processing, optical signal processing incorporates multiple fields of optics to achieve signal processing functions with the potential to match the line rate of fiber optic communications. This means that this process literally holds the promise of widespread light-speed computation processes. In optical signal processing, information can be encoded within light waves by adjusting the wavelength, amplitude, phase, polarization, and spatial features of these waves.
Scientists have long looked toward optical signal processing for a way to overcome the natural bandwidth and speed restrictions that plague conventional electronic-based systems. In recent years, researchers have developed a number of all-optical signal processors in an effort to address all the needed features of practical computer processing applications.
A form of extremely fast computer processing, optical signal processing incorporates multiple fields of optics to achieve signal processing functions with the potential to match the line rate of fiber optic communications. This means that this process literally holds the promise of widespread light-speed computation processes. In optical signal processing, information can be encoded within light waves by adjusting the wavelength, amplitude, phase, polarization, and spatial features of these waves.
Scientists have long looked toward optical signal processing for a way to overcome the natural bandwidth and speed restrictions that plague conventional electronic-based systems. In recent years, researchers have developed a number of all-optical signal processors in an effort to address all the needed features of practical computer processing applications.
