Abstract
A straightforward optical binary full-adder implementation can be achieved through a cascade of several two-variable optical logic elements. However, the use of cascaded optical elements introduces additional problems such as signal energy loss and speed reduction. A bistable etalon based single-stage binary full adder was proposed. This scheme, however, is an analog scheme that could suffer from an inherent large error rate.
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