Optical logic gates based on the polarization properties of four-wave mixing

摘要

Logic operations are carried out among multiple optical signals based on their wavelength. The logic operations can be based on four wave mixing which produces an output based on polarizations of the inputs. The same circuit can be caused to carry out multiple truth tables. Applications are disclosed for adding, logical inversion, and error correction. The error correction can take the form of parity bit generation or correction of data bits.