The mass production of ideas, and other impossibilities

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Chmn Livio DeSimone of Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing took over leadership of the company in 1991, and by 1994 profits had increased by 5%. The company has tougher financial goals and has become leaner, but it still filed for 543 patents in 1994, a 40% increase over 1991.

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Correlation is now causation: optical computing

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OCA Applied Optics will market the first optical correlator, a light-based processor. Correlators convert images into Fourier transforms. OCA's innovative correlator costs about $10,000 and is compact. The technology is described.

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The fluttering of tiny pixels

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The usage of optical interference as a way of generating images is examined in detail.

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