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To: gpowell who wrote (152)	6/9/2000 8:57:00 PM
From: Curtis E. Bemis	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 46821

You have not cleared up any misconceptions seeded on this thread--you have promulgated them. Of course solar cells are photovoltaics and the best efficiencies available, for the solar spectrum, are less than 32% with 20-25% in commercial devices. At 1550nm, the quantum efficiency, the conversion of photons into electron-hole pairs, is not so good and there are other problems depending on the device and what it is made of. If you claim 40%, and you suggested 50% efficiency at 1550nm, you better apply for some peer reviewed grant $$--or was that the company that went bankrupt and folded ? Sure, emergency life-line handset power might be possible, at the few microwatt level. Don't be firing 10mj/20ns pulses up my fiber link tho-- that is horsepucky.