Physical Limits on Logic Operations Employing Nonlinear Optical Effects

R. W. Hellwarth

doi:10.1364/OPTCOMP.1985.MC2

Topical Meeting on Optical Computing
Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 1985),
paper MC2
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Physical Limits on Logic Operations Employing Nonlinear Optical Effects

R. W. Hellwarth

Optical Computing 1985

Incline Village, Nevada United States
18–20 March 1985
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Nonlinear Optics and Optical Bistability I (MC)

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Abstract

We discuss the minimum energy dissipation required to perform one logic operation by degenerate four-wave mixing of optical pulses in resonant, nonresonant, and photorefractive media.

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