The floating-point division routine of ternary
optical computer uses the SRT algorithm as the mathematical model, and the calculation steps are as follows:
An
optical computer would use photons in visible light or infrared beams, rather than electric current, to perform digital computations.
According to some, this technology will transform the computer industry; the
optical computer will be faster and able to store larger amounts of data compared to its electronic counterpart.
Zenith, likewise, could have regarded the laser disk not just as one potential product but as the wellspring of a stream of products flowing out of the collective experience gained by making the first--items like
optical computer memories, disks containing information services, video disks that could be erased and revised.
Other hi-tech gadgets include an
optical computer mouse that doubles as a mobile internet phone.
Right now, the team is using the printer to make photonic crystals, which can manipulate light on a small scale and potentially serve as
optical computer chips or lasers.
The
optical computer strikes our panel as the most feasible successor technology, likely to enter the commercial marketplace in about 2015.
Nature magazine reports that $6.7 million should start off MITI's next-generation neural network and
optical computer technology--a project which will likely absorb several hundred million before it is completed.
Although a general-purpose
optical computer probably will not materialize until well into the next century, current photonics research may have applications in communications systems within three to five years, according to Bell officials.
That system inspired Mason to paint irregular dots on a Ping-Pong ball and rest it in a modified cradle from an
optical computer mouse.