Optics Letters

Nanometric summation architecture based on optical near-field interaction between quantum dots

Makoto Naruse, Tetsuya Miyazaki, Fumito Kubota, Tadashi Kawazoe, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Suguru Sangu, Motoichi Ohtsu

Published Jan 15, 2005• 34 citations

Abstract

A nanoscale data summation architecture is proposed and experimentally demonstrated based on the optical near-field interaction between quantum dots. Based on local electromagnetic interactions between a few nanometric elements via optical near fields, we can combine multiple excitations at a certain quantum dot, which allows construction of a summation architecture. Summation plays a key role for content-addressable memory, which is one of the most important functions in optical networks.

DOI: 10.1364/ol.30.000201

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