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Technology Stocks : JDS Uniphase (JDSU)
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To: Kent Rattey who wrote ()4/7/2000 11:25:00 AM
From: rushnomore  Read Replies (2) of 24042
 
The "Holy Grail" of the fiberoptics business?
Story in today's Los Angeles Times at latimes.com
Selected excerpts from the copyrighted story are posted below without comment:

New Device Could Boost Data Speed
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An optical-technology breakthrough announced Thursday could dramatically enlarge the capacity for data networks to provide high-speed Internet access to a nearly endless number of customers.
This new "electro-optic modulator" can pump data in the form of light signals through fiber-optic networks--the backbone of the Internet as well as telephone and cable TV systems--at 10 or more times the rate possible today but using only a tiny fraction of the power now required.
The device represents "the Holy Grail the people in the fiber-optic business have been looking for," said USC electrical engineer William Steier, co-author of a study in the journal Science that describes the development.
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The new technology creates modulators out of polymers
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"The knock on polymers has been data loss and manufacturability," said Willhoit. "My guess is that if something like this actually works, [companies that develop it] will be phenomenal acquisition fodder for JDS Uniphase or Corning," leaders in the optical-component market.
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The first wave of commercialization may come this summer. Los Angeles-based Pacific Wave Industries intends to release an opto-chip that can support data transmission at eight times the speed of today's standard and operates on 4 volts of power
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