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    This study presents a novel polarization encoded optical shadow-casting (POSC) technique for designing multioutput trinary logic units. The POSC method enables efficient design and implementation of trinary adders and subtractors.

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    Area of Science:

    • Digital optics
    • Optical computing
    • Boolean logic design

    Background:

    • Traditional digital logic systems primarily use binary (two-state) representations.
    • Implementing multi-valued logic, such as trinary (three-state) logic, offers potential advantages in computational density and efficiency.
    • Optical methods provide a pathway for high-speed parallel processing, but designing complex logic units remains challenging.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To introduce a novel polarization encoded optical shadow-casting (POSC) technique for designing multioutput trinary combinational logic units.
    • To demonstrate the application of a modified POSC algorithm for implementing logic elements in a trinary number system.
    • To provide a detailed solution for POSC logic equations to achieve input pixel coding for specific trinary arithmetic units.

    Main Methods:

    • Utilizing a polarization encoded optical shadow-casting (POSC) technique.
    • Employing a modified POSC algorithm for the design and implementation of trinary logic elements.
    • Solving POSC logic equations for a fixed source plane and decoding mask to determine input pixel coding.

    Main Results:

    • Successful design of various multioutput trinary combinational logic units using the POSC technique.
    • Demonstration of separate and simultaneous output generation for trinary logic operations.
    • Detailed input pixel coding solutions derived for trinary half-adders, full adders, and subtractors.

    Conclusions:

    • The POSC technique is a viable and effective method for designing multioutput trinary logic units.
    • The proposed approach facilitates the implementation of complex trinary arithmetic functions using optical methods.
    • This work contributes to the advancement of optical computing and multi-valued logic systems.