title: Optical full adder.
abstract: We report construction and successful operation of a ripple carry full adder with an architecture based on symbolic substitution logic. The principal piece of hardware is a microchannel spatial light modulator. Examples of its operation are given for addition of 4-bit numbers.
authors.forename: T M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Merklein
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Stork
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yajima