Optical system comprising binary photonic lattice

Abstract

The binary photonic lattice includes a waveguide array having a plurality of single-mode waveguides disposed in a substrate, the plurality of single-mode waveguides including one or more first waveguides having a first V number V1 and one or more second waveguides having a second V number V2. The first V number V1 is less than the second V number V2. The one or more first and second waveguides are arranged in a linear distribution having first and second edge waveguide regions and a binary waveguide region between the first and second edge waveguide regions. The binary waveguide region is a symmetric binary representation of two or more decimal numbers. Further, the binary waveguide region comprises at least one first waveguide representing a number 0 of a symmetric binary representation and / or at least one second waveguide representing a number 1 of a symmetric binary representation.

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[0001] Cross-reference to related applications [0002] This application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119 to US Provisional Application Serial No. 62 / 912,153, filed on October 8, 2019, based on the contents of this provisional application and the contents of which are incorporated by reference in their entirety. into this article. technical field [0003] The present disclosure relates to optical systems including binary photonic lattices that can be used to generate optical representations of binary numbers. Background technique [0004] Optical computing using photonic devices has many advantages over traditional electronic computing. Optical signals do not have the time response limitations of electronic signals, and optical signals do not require insulators. In optical computing, hundreds or even thousands of streams of photon signals can be sent simultaneously using different frequencies. In addition, optical systems facilitate low-loss transmission and provide ...

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As a result, each optical transistor typically requires high power, making conventional optical transistors impractical for use in optical computing when large numbers of optical transistors (millions or even billions) are required

In addition, in the case of systems without many optical nonlinear elements operating at high power, it may also be unstable

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