Brenner: "A programmable optical processor based on symbolic substitution", Appl.

Caring too much about the truth could lead to a pathological obsession with the infrastructure-the algorithms and optical processors, the machinery of "deception" which lay beneath every surface.

Both the antenna and the optical processor have been used before, but this is the first time they have been used together in one system.

Your optical processors are not yet online.

This fact became a principal complication in the design of optical processors.

And yet with the right equipment-an ungainly lash-up of prisms, lenses, lasers and optical processors on a lab bench-it was possible to do it in a few milliseconds.

Like the processors in conventional computers, optical processors are based on digital "switches" that perform computations.

Future optical processors will be able to handle data equivalent to all the world's telephone conversations simultaneously.

They are also working on microscopic lasers that would permit shrinking optical processors from their current tabletop size to that matching today's fingernail-sized semiconductor chips.

I boost power to the receiver as high as I dare, then route the raw output down to an auxiliary optical processor.