Qiu Ciyuan, Xiao Huifu, Wang Liheng, Tian Yonghui
State Key Lab of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Department of Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China.
Institute of Microelectronics and Key Laboratory for Magnetism and Materials of Ministry of Education, School of Physical Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China.
Front Optoelectron. 2022 Mar 28;15(1):1. doi: 10.1007/s12200-022-00001-y.
Optical directed logic (DL) is a novel logic operation scheme that employs electrical signals as operands to control the working states of optical switches to perform the logic functions. This review first provides an overview of the concept and working principle of DL. The developing trends of DL computing are then discussed in detail, including the fundamental optical DL gates, combinational optical DL operations, reconfigurable logic computing, low power optical logic computing, and programmable photonic network. The concluding remarks provide an outlook on the DL future development and its impacts in optical computing.
光控逻辑(DL)是一种新颖的逻辑运算方案,它采用电信号作为操作数来控制光开关的工作状态以执行逻辑功能。本综述首先概述了DL的概念和工作原理。然后详细讨论了DL计算的发展趋势,包括基本光控逻辑门、组合光控逻辑运算、可重构逻辑计算、低功耗光逻辑计算和可编程光子网络。结束语对DL的未来发展及其在光计算中的影响进行了展望。