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Strategies & Market Trends : Gorilla and King Portfolio Candidates
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To: LindyBill who wrote (22342)4/5/2000 11:38:00 PM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (2) of 54805
 
but you can't route packages with optical
There may not be any full optical routers for sale now. I can imagine ways to switch light packets with light. One way would be to have a pizo-electric crystal bonded with a photo-sensitive material with a small part silvered mirror polished in it. If at the critical moment light is shining down the pipe it will partially split at the mirror, the split beam would energize the photo-sensitive material which activates the pizo-crystal to shift the mirror slightly. (If no light is shining the mirror does not shift). Then light wave would be re-amplified. This is the basis for a logic circut.

I don't think there is a product that does this yet, but if I can think up something that might work, imagine what those engineers at JDSU or SLDI are thinking up. My point is that one of these days someone is going to claim to have an optical router and they will be telling the truth.
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