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The Two Separate Optical Fibres Approach in Computing with 3NLSE–Domain Optical Solitons

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While in the past research was focused on how best to treat computational arrangements when all optical solitons were propagating down a single optical fibre, has been increasingly become apparent that using two separate optical fibres to propagate solitons involved in the same computational arrangement possesses a number of unique properties and offers a number of unique possibilities. In this paper we present this alternative approach to computing involving both first-order and second-order optical solitons in the 3NLS–domain to construct optical soliton gates composed of two individual physical optical fibres and solitonic arrangements propating individually and in parallel, yet forming collectively a single solitonic all-optical logic gate fulfilling all requirements for solitonic gateless computing. More specifically, the focus is on investigating fundamental properties of collisions between first order and second order solitons and on providing proof-of-principle for the feasibility of using collisions between such solitons in the 3NLS–domain that propagate in separate optical fibres for computing.

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    Anastasios G. Bakaoukas

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    Rahul Bhatia

  3. The Science and Information (SAI) Organization, Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK

    Supriya Kapoor

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Bakaoukas, A.G. (2019). The Two Separate Optical Fibres Approach in Computing with 3NLSE–Domain Optical Solitons. In: Arai, K., Bhatia, R., Kapoor, S. (eds) Intelligent Computing. CompCom 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 998. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22868-2_20

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