title: Nanometric summation architecture based on optical near-field interaction between quantum dots.
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.
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, 4-2-1 Nukui-kita, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8795, Japan. naruse@nict.go.jp
authors.forename: Makoto
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Naruse
authors.forename: Tetsuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Miyazaki
authors.forename: Fumito
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kubota
authors.forename: Tadashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kawazoe
authors.forename: Kiyoshi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.forename: Suguru
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sangu
authors.forename: Motoichi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ohtsu