据美联社纽约报道,贝尔中心(区域性贝尔电话公司的联合研究组织)说,它已经研制出可能让计算机的运行速度快10倍的以激光为基础的计算机时钟。这台原型时钟利用了激光器能产生短促的、甚至是脉冲的光的能力,并利用光纤在几乎不损失能量和质量的情况下传输光束的能力。 According to the Associated Press in New York, the Bell Center, a joint research group of regional Bell Telephone Company, said it has developed a laser-based computer clock that can make computers run 10 times faster. The prototype clock takes advantage of the ability of lasers to generate short, even pulsed light and uses optical fibers to transmit light beams with virtually no loss of energy and mass.