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To: ftth who wrote (19)	6/3/2000 11:15:00 PM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

You'll find this: The use of Gradium, which precisely disperses or concentrates wavelengths through gradations in the index of refraction across the diameter of the glass component, allows for low-cost integration of the receiver into a circuit board, he said. and this: 'There's a deep polarity sensitivity in the dopant so that when you apply voltage, you cause the index of refraction in the polymer core to shift, creating a switching mechanism,' Ballog said. in some of my posts on SR. Palmer was using the Kerr Effect to modulate the input beam with RF electric fields. The trick was to synchronize the RF inputs so that they would add across the domain without interference and embed them onto the beam without instability like RF channel drift developing. There is a difference between modulation and switching, or is there?

To: ftth who wrote (19)	6/4/2000 9:55:00 PM
From: ftth	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 46821

It looks as though Lightchip has shifted their emphasis a bit since that 7/97 article, concentrating now on the metro market. Probably that market wasn't as apparent then (and certainly didn't have the hype it has today), so they'll need to milk that for its presumably much higher margins than the consumer FTTH market, before they'll get to those stated $200 multiwavelength-to-the-home targets. Seems a natural progression though--once a given WDM granularity reaches commodity pricing level in the metro market.