optical computer
Americannoun
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He's been promising an optical computer for years, and he's still promising.
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The earliest attempts to build an optical computer date back to the late 1950s, when researchers experimented with mercury-arc lamps and even sunlight.
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The most ambitious competition is the race to build the first optical computer, considered a practical impossibility only a few years ago.
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Western Europe and Japan are pushing hard toward a still much-in-the-future optical computer that uses photons rather than electrons for number-crunching efficiency.
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In theory, photons would race through such a machine with near perfect efficiency, which would make an optical computer 1,000 times as fast as the most advanced of modern electronic supercomputers.
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