Digital optical interaction gate

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1987-03-06

1989-03-07

Harkcom, Gary V.

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ABSTRACT:
A reversible, all optical implementation of an interaction gate. One embodiment of the interaction gate is a dual-beam version of an optical nonlinear interface. A second embodiment is a dual-beam Fabry-Perot (F-P) switch. The device is a universal computation building block from which arbitrary computing circuits can be constructed.

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