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All-optical programmable switch with XOR gate functions in a doped silica thin film
A SPIE journal article published 1998-10-01 describes an all-optical programmable switch implementing XOR gate functions in a doped silica thin film. The excerpt supplied contains only the article title and publication metadata.
Categories: science-and-space, technology
Generated scores
Scores are based on the cited reporting and use a 1–10 scale. Read the methodology.
- Confidence
- 6/10
- Geographic reach
- 1/10
- Global importance
- 2/10
- Impact magnitude
- 3/10
- Positivity
- 6/10
- Urgency
- 1/10
Why it matters
The paper documents a specific optical switching approach that implements XOR logic as stated in the title.

