PHOTON-ECHO-BASED LOGICAL PROCESSING

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作者
KROLL, S
ELMAN, U
机构
[1] Department of Physics, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, S-221 00
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10.1364/OL.18.001834
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
Word-by-word logical AND and OR operation with photon-echo processing is demonstrated for what is to our knowledge the first time. The photon-echo process can store sequences of optical data before processing. The present logical operations on 8- and 4-bit words are performed by using single-shot frequency-chirped photon echoes. Data rates of approximately 1 MHz, input energies of 1-10 nJ/bit, and output energies in the picojoule-per-bit range are demonstrated by using a transition with a transition probability of only 20 s(-1).
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