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From: gatesoft	6/4/2008 3:39:03 PM
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Here is an interesting comment made by George Gilder in December 2007: George Gilder (12/29/07): "Routine lithium niobate external modulators use several techniques to turn on and off (modulate) a continuous wave laser for communications uses. They are manufactured in conventional optics facilities, meet the exacting telecom specs and standards for durability and reliability, and are costly to produce. However, lithium niobate doped in various combinations with other elements offer optoelectronic efficiencies for many potential functions beyond merely turning a light beam on and off at tremendous frequencies. Especially promising are: 1) the adaptation of this element to enable use of cheap infrared lasers, from Novalux and others, as powerful emitters of visible light for display applications; 2) its use to enable highly linear transmission of radio frequencies onto fiber for cheap and convenient wireless backhaul without costly conversions and transcodings; 3) exploitation of the element's unique characteristics to enable new network architectures that employ lithium niobate devices to drastically reduce the need for costly lasers and amplifiers. Such innovations promise volumes that would render lithium niobate the dominant optoelectronic material in the way silicon is the dominant electronic material. But all such potential mass consumer applications entail development of mass manufacturing operations and packaging innovations. The industry needs fiberspeed devices that approach silicon in cost. Companies that solve this problem may move to the center of the sphere in optoelectronics, where challenges and opportunities open up in all directions." Is it possible that electro-optic polymers supplant lithium niobate as the dominant optoelectronic material? I wonder what Mr. Gilder thinks? GATE.

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