"Once the reactor is down, it won't take more than a couple of hours to recalibrate the wave guides in conduit two."

The technology behind the switches is based on channels for the passage of photons called wave guides.

The wave guides look like deep ravines arranged in patterns of circles and straight lines.

To make sure, he readjusted the wave guide to project a thin but fan-shaped beam.

Ned inserted the wave guide and switched the chip to dump to the vehicle's computer.

"They used the tractor beam as a wave guide for their pulse," Kirk said.

Stilling wells and wave guides are used to prevent errors caused by these factors.

Extremely clear glass, used for fiber-optic wave guides in communication networks.

In practice, the wave guide seems to work.

"A kind of gravitic leakage that's shaped by the wave guides."