Design of an Optoelectronic State Machine with integrated BDD based Optical logic

TL;DR

This paper presents a novel optoelectronic state machine design that integrates BDD-based optical logic for faster operation, replacing traditional logic with waveguides and ring resonators to achieve picosecond switching speeds.

Contribution

The paper introduces a new design for an optoelectronic state machine using BDD-based optical logic, enhancing speed over conventional digital logic.

Findings

Optical logic switches operate in the order of picoseconds.

The design outperforms traditional state machines in speed.

Waveguides and ring resonators enable binary switching.

Abstract

In this paper I demonstrate a novel design for an optoelectronic State Machine which replaces input/output forming logic found in conventional state machines with BDD based optical logic while still using solid state memory in the form of flip-flops in order to store states. This type of logic makes use of waveguides and ring resonators to create binary switches. These switches in turn can be used to create combinational logic which can be used as input/output forming logic for a state machine. Replacing conventional combinational logic with BDD based optical logic allows for a faster range of state machines that can certainly outperform conventional state machines as propagation delays within the logic described are in the order of picoseconds as opposed to nanoseconds in digital logic.