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This article reports on the plans of two physicists to create a computer that can process information directly from light. The trick to making a successful all-optical computer, then, would be to create components that were capable of switching and processing light without converting it into electri...

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Published in:Economist Vol. 370; no. 8365; p. 72
Format: Article
Published: Economist Newspaper Limited 3/6/2004
Subjects:
Optical computers
Photonics
Computers
Computer science
Light
Electromagnetic waves
Photons
Optical computing
Optical computer equipment
Optical communications
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