Abstract

We describe an optical cascadable polarization- and area-encoded sorting system that is capable of independently sorting two arrays of unipolar data, each in an arbitrary order specified by a corresponding instruction. The sorting instructions can be easily programmed by external optical signals. The system can be used for sorting a single array of bipolar data.

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