Abstract

An optical carry-free technique is introduced for conversion of a modified signed digit (MSD) into two’s complement binary number. Using a combination of optical polarizing beam splitters and retardation waveplates, the proposed device performs this conversion on the fly. The availability of this converter will lead to a large speed increase for various proposed optical parallel MSD arithmetic processors.

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