Combinational tasks performed by second-harmonic-generated holograms.

A Andreoni1, M Bondani, M A Potenza

  • 1Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Fisiche e Matematiche, Università dell'Insubria, Via Valleggio, 11, 22100 Como, Italy.

Optics Letters
|December 11, 2007
PubMed
Summary

Researchers created optical logic gates AND and NAND using second-harmonic-generated holograms. This technology enables real-time optical computing, demonstrated by a half-adder for binary numbers.

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