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From: fmgst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Filip Gieszczykiewicz)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,sci.electronics,comp.lsi
Subject: Re: Electro-optic bus
Keywords: optical, laser.
Message-ID: <26422@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 2 Aug 90 05:52:09 GMT
Reply-To: fmgst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Filip Gieszczykiewicz)
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	Greetings. On "Science and Technology", a TV (cable?) show:
	
	"company" has succesfully build the first optical "circuit".
	It's composed of 128 optical "gates". It's promising to produce
	a fully optical computer capable of near-speed-of-light 
	operation by the year 2000...."

	Not sure of the source, and the "company" might have been
	AT&T, Bell Labs... something like that. 

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	Question1. Anyone hear of this, or better yet, worked on
	it?

	Question2. Feasible? For example how do you make an optical
	inverter?
	(I thought of a light-sensitive liquid that would react to
	light as does LCD panel to electricity...but that's not it...)

	Anyone? 

	Take care.
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