“…Owing to these remarkable properties, it has been possible to successfully exploit the switching behavior of this module under pulsed operation 7 for signal processing exclusively in the optical domain and to demonstrate serial Boolean logic, 8 clock recovery, 9 demultiplexing, 10 binary-to-quaternary encoding/decoding, 11 multivalued logic, 12 data format conversion, 13 regeneration, 14 sampling, 15 header and payload separation, 16 buffering, 17,18 parallel Boolean logic and arithmetic operations, 19 modular arithmetic, 20 binary addition and subtraction, 21 and flip-flop memories. 22 One common characteristic of the aforementioned demonstrations, which has also affected the content of the relevant theoretical works, 5,23-32 is that they have focused on the intensity rather than on the phase transmission function of the switch. Nevertheless, the information contained in it, and in particular in its time derivative, should not be ignored, as it can be utilized in applications of optical communications and networks.…”