THIN FILM OPTICAL COMPUTING

Patent №

US 4,926,366

Granted

1990-05-15

Filed 1989

Owner

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, A NON-PROFIT CORP. OF IOWA

Lab

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hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

07341697

An optical integration technique using thin film technology is based on a nonlinear interface with a diffusive or saturated Kerr-like nonlinearity. Solid state multiplexing is implemented with thin film multilayer stacks resulting in polarizers and phase retarders matched to the interface. The simplicity of the integration architecture is demonstrated by designing a thin film half-adder, a full adder and a carry-propagate adder.

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Ownership

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, A NON-PROFIT CORP. OF IOWA

assignment · 50760226

Assignors

CUYKENDALL, ROBERT R., STROBL, KARLHEINZ

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