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A Photonic Transistor ?

A project log for LIGHT LOGIC - HIC SVNT DRACONES

Using a LED/LDR pair to form inverting Photonic logic gates. The entire Boolean logic set handled by resistors and diodes! Who'd'a thunk

dr-cockroachDr. Cockroach 10/21/2018 at 22:340 Comments

I was making another Light Logic firefly gate and when I sat there looking at it, I understood why others said that it acted like a transistor. More or less, it even looks like a old style transistor from the 1950s and it does roughly have a Emitter, Base and Collector and functions like a NPN, well sort of...

Is this an attempt to enter into DIY Quantum computing? Hardly, that's a whole different ball game on a whole different level.... Unless I can reduce the light required for switching down to a single photon and that's not going to happen at this level.......Unless.......

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