Optical Eratosthenes' sieve for large prime numbers

We report the first experimental demonstration of a prime number sieve via linear optics. The prime numbers distribution is encoded in the intensity zeros of the far field produced by a spatial light modulator hologram, which comprises a set of diffraction gratings whose periods correspond to all pr...

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Principais autores: Li, B, Maltese, G, Costa-Filho, JI, Pushkina, AA, Lvovsky, A
Formato: Journal article
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Optical Society of America 2020