Notes on  SOFTWARE LASER 

An optical laser works by bouncing photons back and forth between two
mirrors, one totally reflective and one partially reflective. If the
lasing material (usually a crystal) has the right properties, photons
scattering off the atoms in the crystal will excite cascades of more
photons, all in lockstep. Eventually the beam will escape through the
partially-reflective mirror. One kind of SORCERER'S APPRENTICE MODE
involving BOUNCE MESSAGEs can produce closely analogous results,
with a CASCADE of messages escaping to flood nearby systems. By
mid-1993 there had been at least two publicized incidents of this
kind.

J3N Research Labs

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