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All-optical computation is shown to be working when boolean algebra operations are performed on optical bits encoded as amplitude modulations in two wavefronts that are made interact in a non-linear crystal endowed with second order non-linearity (β-BaB2O4). The sum-frequency interaction reconstructs a holographic image containing the outputs of the desired operations, and difference frequency also demonstrated to be effective. The experiments demonstrate the feasibility of a parallel half-adder and confirm the possibility to work with high density of data, since a nearly diffraction limited resolution can be easily achieved in the holographic image.
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Andreoni, A., Bondani, M., Potenza, M.A.C., Puddu, E., Denisyuk, Y.N. (2001). Feasibility of All-Optical Computation by Second Harmonic Generated Holograms. In: Driessen, A. (eds) Nonlinear Optics for the Information Society. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-1267-1_8
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