A TOPOLOGICAL DEMODULATOR

The problems involved in increasing the rate of data processing still await a final solution. To achieve this, improvements are being made i n the manufacture of low-frequency digital integrated circuits employi ng monolithic semiconductor technology, on the one hand, while on the other attempts are being made to design new components for data proces sing devices in the optical band. In the final analysis the latter tre nd involves optoelectronic converters, which also determine the rate o f data processing [1]. One of the versions of the development of digit al integrated circuits rejects the low-frequency ''current'' view in d ata processing and uses coding of the structure of the electromagnetic field in the microwave band [2]. This approach arose during the devel opment and application of methods of topological electrodynamics to in ternal boundary-value problems [3] and consisted of recording digital data in the topology of an electromagnetic field (topological pulse mo dulation). Microwave bulk integrated circuits, because of their minimu m dimensions [4, 5], turned out to be particularly convenient for the technical realization of new topological digital-circuit components (t opological modulators and demodulators). Below we consider the constru ction and physical properties of a demodulator constructed in the form of a microwave bulk integrated circuit topological switch.