Talk:Optical buffer

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"Implementation of optical buffers As light cannot be frozen, an optical buffer is made of optical fibers, and is generally much larger than a RAM chip of comparable capacity. A single fiber can serve as a buffer, however, a set of more than one is usually used. A possibility, for example, is to choose a certain length D for the smallest fiber, and then let the second, third... have lengths . Another typical example is to use a single loop, in which the data circulates a variable number of times."

In the beginning where it states light cannot be frozen, this is outdated information see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3308109.stm for details

Mrstenoien 15:56, 11 January 2007 (UTC)