We introduce the passive all-optical polarization switch, which modulates light with light. That switch is used to construct all the binary logic gates of two or more inputs. We discuss the design concepts and the operation of the AND, OR, NAND, and NOR gates as examples. The rest of the 16 logic gates are similarly designed. Cascading of such gates is straightforward as we show and discuss. Ca...

By overcoming speed bottlenecks from electronic switching as well as optical/electronic conversions, all-optical logic gates can permit further exploitation of the nearly 40THz of bandwidth available from optical fibers. We focus on the use of optical solitons and alloptical logic gates to implement ultrafast "interchanges" or switching nodes on packet networks with speeds of 100Gbit/s or great...

We apply a notion of static renormalization to the preparation of entangled states for quantum computing, exploiting ideas from percolation theory. Such a strategy yields a novel way to cope with the randomness of nondeterministic quantum gates. This is most relevant in the context of optical architectures, where probabilistic gates are common, and cold atoms in optical lattices, where hole def...

1 Light and quantum information 2 Photons as qubits, phase shifters, beam splitters, polarization rotations, polarizing beam splitters, interferometers. 2 Two-qubit gates and the KLM scheme 6 Two-photon entanglement, the KLM approach, Clifford operations, two-photon interference, Hong-Ou-Mandel effect, fusion gates. 3 Cluster states 13 From circuits to clusters, single-qubit gates, two-qubit ga...

Multi-stage optical packet switching fabric based on the broadcast-and-select principle is considered to implement the shared-per-node wavelength conversion scheme. This approach fairly allows to combine contention resolution in the wavelength and space domains. A scheduling algorithm is proposed to control optical packet forwarding in synchronous context. The results aim at showing how the sha...

All-optical logic gates (AO-LGs) are the key elements that play a pivotal role in development of future all-optical networks and computing. A complete overview seven (i.e., AND, OR, NOT, XOR, XNOR, NAND, NOR) based on their design techniques applications covered, including latest technologies, such as topological photonics artificial intelligence-based designs techniques. In addition, we have f...