Analysis and evaluations of logical instructions called in parallel digital optical operations based on optical array logic

Abstract

The authors have analysed and evaluated a two-dimensional instruction set of parallel operation based on optical array logic (OAL), which is a digital optical computing paradigm, to clarify efficient composition of an optical computing system based on OAL. To evaluate parallel operation based on OAL, the author have introduced new indices and evaluated a logical instruction set of various parallel operations with the indices, so that a guideline for composing a simple and efficient OAL computing system is clarified. Also, the authors have proposed the reduced operation kernel set correlation technique to perform parallel operations more efficiently by a simple OAL computing system. It has been clarified that the technique can reduce the required hardware necessary for an OAL computing system for efficient general-purpose processing.

Passive all-optical polarization switch, binary logic gates, and digital processor

“…In 1996, logic gates based on digital speckle pattern interferometry were introduced as the digital polarization-encoded technique for optical logic gate operations [22]. Shadow-gram based Boolean logic gates were introduced in 1997, and related analysis and evaluations of logical instructions called in parallel digital optical operations based on optical array logic were introduced in 2004 [23,24]. In 2007, an optics inspired logic architecture, which is similar to the Fredkin and Toffoli conservative logic, was introduced [25].…”