Optical computer definition
Optical computer. (4) means a computer designed or modified to use light to represent data and whose computational logic elements are based on directly coupled optical devices.
Optical computer. (Category 4) means a computer designed or modified to use light to represent data, and the computational logic elements of which are based on directly coupled optical devices; “optical integrated circuit” (Category 3) means a “monolithic integrated circuit” or a “hybrid integrated circuit”, containing one or more parts designed to function as a photosensor or photoemitter or to perform an optical or an electro-optical function or functions; “optical switching” (Category 5) means the routing of or switching of signals in optical form without conversion to electrical signals; “overall current density” (Category 3) means the total number of ampere-turns in the coil (i.e. the sum of the number of turns multiplied by the maximum current carried by each turn) divided by the total cross-section of the coil (comprising the superconducting filaments, the metallic matrix in which the superconducting filaments are embedded, the encapsulating material, any cooling channels, etc.); “participating state” (Categories 7, 9) means a state participating in the Wassenaar Arrangement (details of which are set out in https://www.wassenaar.org); “peak power” (Category 6) means the highest power attained in the “pulse duration”; “personal area network” (Category 5) means a data communication system having both of the following characteristics: a. Allows an arbitrary number of independent or interconnected ‘data devices’ to communicate directly with each other; and b. Is confined to the communication between devices within the immediate vicinity of an individual person or device controller (e.g. single room, office, or automobile and their nearby surrounding spaces); Technical Note‘Data device’ means equipment capable of transmitting or receiving sequences of digital information. “plasma atomisation” (Category 1) means a process to reduce a molten stream or solid metal to droplets of 500 µm diameter or less, using plasma torches in an inert gas environment; “power management” (Category 7) means changing the transmitted powerof the altimeter signal so that received power at the “aircraft” altitude is always at the minimum necessary to determine the altitude;