Prospects for an optical supercomputer

¿Computers are now at a midlife crisis,¿ said Alan Huang of AT&T Bell Laboratories. ¿Beyond 1 picosecond you begin dealing with optical frequencies anyway. So either you ignore the fact that it´s optical frequencies or you make use of that fact. I am a digital computer person; most of the computers I´ve designed are electronic. Now I´m trying to move computers into a different technology that I believe is superior, which is optics. I want to build the world´s fastest computer.¿ (Just for scale, 1 ps corresponds to a frequency of 1012 hertz, or a wavelength of about 300 micrometers in the far infrared.)