1. Richard Barakat and John H. Reif, Lower Bounds on the Computational Efficiency of Optical Computing Systems. Journal of Applied Optics, Vol. 26, No. 6, March 15, 1987, pp. 1015-1018. [PDF]
2. Richard Barakat and John H. Reif, Polynomial Convolution Algorithm for Matrix Multiplication with Application for Optical Computing. Published in Journal of Applied Optics, Vol. 26, No. 14, July 15, 1987, pp. 2707-2711. [PDF]
3. John H. Reif and A. Tyagi, An Optical Delay Line Memory Model with Efficient Algorithms. Advanced Research in VLSI Conference, MIT Press, Santa Cruz, CA, March 1991. Published in Optical Engineering, 36(09), pp. 2521-2535, Sept. (1997). [PostScript] [PDF]
4. John
H. Reif and A. Tyagi, John H. Reif and A. Tyagi, Energy Complexity of Optical
Computations, 2nd IEEE Symposium on
Parallel and Distributed Processing, Dallas, TX, December 1990, pp. 14-21. Revised for Journal
Publication in International Journal of Unconventional Computing, 2016,
Vol. 12 Issue 5/6, pp. 393-412. [PDF] [PDF]
5. John H. Reif and Akitoshi Yoshida, Optical Expanders with Applications in Optical Computing, Journal of Applied Optics, 32, 1993, pp. 159-165. [PDF] or [PostScript] [PDF]
6. John H. Reif, Optical expanders give constant time holographic routing using O(N log N) switches, 1988 [PDF]. Full paper appeared as E.S. Maniloff, K. Johnson, and John H. Reif, Holographic Routing Network for Parallel Processing Machines Holographic Optics II: Principals and Applications, G. Michael Morris; Ed. SPIE Proceedings Series, Vol. 1136, EPS/EUROPTICA/SPIE International Congress on Optical Science and Engineering, Paris, France, April 1989, pp. 283-289. [PDF]
7. John H. Reif, Doug Tygar, and Akitoshi Yoshida, The Computability and Complexity of Optical Beam Tracing. 31st Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, St. Louis, MO, October 1990, pp. 106-114. Published as The Computability and Complexity of Ray Tracing in Discrete & Computational Geometry, 11: pp. 265-287 (December 1994). [PDF]
8. John H. Reif and A. Tyagi, Efficient Algorithms for Optical Computing with the DFT Primitive, Presented at 10th Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science, Bangalore, India, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 149-160 (December 1990). Published as Efficient Algorithms for Optical Computing with the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) primitive, Journal of Applied Optics, Vol. 36, 1997, pp. 7327-7340. [PDF] or [PostScript] [PDF]
9. John H. Reif and Akitoshi Yoshida, Optical Techniques for Image Compression. 2nd Annual IEEE Data Compression Conference (DCC 92), Snowbird, UT, IEEE Computer Society Press, James A. Storer, Martin Cohn (Eds.), March 1992, pp. 32-41. Also in Image and Text Compression, edited by J. A. Storer, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992. Published as "Optical Computing Techniques for Image/Video Compression," in Proceedings of the IEEE, 82:6, June 1994, pp. 948-954. [PDF]
10. Richard Barakat and John H. Reif, Diffraction Realization of an Optical Expander, (1993). [PDF]
11. Akitoshi Yoshida, Jannick P. Rolland and John H. Reif, Design and Applications of a High Resolution Insert Head-Mounted Display. IEEE Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium (VRAIS'95), Research Triangle Park, NC, March 11-15, 1995, pp. 84-93. [PostScript] [PDF] Also, Jannick P. Rolland and Akitoshi Yoshida, and John H. Reif, Optical design and analysis of a head-mounted display with a high-resolution insert, (Novel Optical Systems Design and Optimization, Jose M. Sasian; Ed.,), Proc. SPIE Vol. 2537, pp. 71-82, Aug. 1995. Published as Jannick P. Rolland, Akitoshi Yoshida, Larry D. Davis, and John H. Reif, High resolution inset head-mounted display, Applied Optics: Optical Technology and Biomedical Optics, 37(19), 4183-4193 (1998). [PDF]