Eight-input optical programmable logic array enabled by parallel spectrum modulation
Wenkai Zhang, Bo Wu, Junwei Cheng, Hailong Zhou, Jianji Dong, Dongmei, Huang, P. K. A. Wai, Xinliang Zhang

TL;DR
This paper presents a scalable eight-input optical programmable logic array using parallel spectrum modulation, demonstrating complex logic functions and extending to nine inputs for cellular automaton simulation, advancing optical digital computing.
Contribution
Introduces a novel multi-input optical PLA leveraging wavelength resource, enabling scalable, high-speed, energy-efficient optical logic operations beyond previous limitations.
Findings
Successfully demonstrated an 8-input optical PLA with 2^256 logic combinations.
Implemented complex functions like decoders, comparators, adders, and multipliers.
Extended to a 9-input PLA for optical cellular automaton and Conway's Game of Life.
Abstract
Despite over 40 years' development of optical logic computing, the studies have been still struggling to support more than four operands, since the high parallelism of light has not been fully leveraged blocked by the optical nonlinearity and redundant input modulation in existing methods. Here, we propose a scalable multi-input optical programmable logic array (PLA) with minimal logical input, enabled by parallel spectrum modulation. By making full use of the wavelength resource, an eight-input PLA is experimentally demonstrated, and there are 2^256 possible combinations of generated logic gates. Various complex logic fuctions, such as 8-256 decoder, 4-bit comparator, adder and multiplier are experimentally demonstrated via leveraging the PLA. The scale of PLA can be further extended by fully using the dimensions of wavelength and space. As an example, a nine-input PLA is implemented…
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Taxonomy
TopicsNeural Networks and Reservoir Computing · Photonic and Optical Devices · Cellular Automata and Applications
