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The circuit design would then consist of a specialized shunt that could divert photons down one of hundreds of different channels based upon the exact angle of a photon’s spin, which could be set in dozens, or eventually, hundreds unique angles, for instance, 360 angles, one for each degree on a compass. The wall of the primary channel would be made from a material that would have the property of attracting photons to a particular point on the wall of the nanotube, depending upon its spin. The nanotube would have to have the property of being gnostic to the spin direction of a photon, with the dynamic looking something like the Hall effect on electrons traveling down a wire in which electrons peel off in all directions toward the outside of the wire rather than traveling in a straight line.
The difference here is that rather than converting electrons into magnetism, we’re talking about simply diverting the path of photons by a fraction of a nanometer in order to cause them to travel down an alternative pathway, depending upon their spin. A nanotube with exactly the right properties should achieve this.
In this way, the mechanism will pre-sort photons according to which aperture they entered, with each aperture causing photons to spin at different angles, while leaving frequency and intensity information intact. From the top left, pixel 1 could apply a perfect forward spin (0 degrees) pixel 2 could spin a photo at 1 degree, pixel 3 at 2 degrees, and so on. This binning mechanism would mean that size requirements for the phototransistors in the mechanism would be less onerous, as only the apertures would need to be at the ~1nm scale. Thus, a spintronic-optronic hybrid camera is born.
These cameras will be able to achieve resolutions at least 500x greater than existing sensors both because of the smaller aperture sizes as well as reduced noise.
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22Aug2021
