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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (256)	6/22/2000 1:38:00 AM
From: ftth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

Jeez, not to rain on their parade or anything, but these puppies have a ways to go yet. That's about as "transparent" to the signal as "optical welding goggles." Squash! ">>The Lucent team reports that this system provides a connection switching time of less than 10 msec, including the drive-voltage rise time. Insertion loss of the optical fabric is 7.5 dB (ñ2.5 dB) in the minimum loss region around 1,550 nm. The diffractive microlenses on the fiber/lens array provide a connection loss variation of ñ1 dB within the 1,525- to 1,565-nm band for which they were designed. "

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (256)	6/22/2000 2:23:00 AM
From: pat mudge	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

Peggylynn and Frank -- Thanks to both for the great MEMs links. From the Stephen Hardy article: AWGs will undoubtedly prove a popular application for PLC technology as interest in the devices grows. E-TEK Dynamics (San Jose) has tapped Bookham Technology (Oxford, UK) to collaborate on an AWG dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) component. The multiyear agreement aims to develop AWG-based DWDM products for long-haul, metro, and cable-TV applications. The two companies displayed a preproduction 100-GHz, 40-channel device at OFC. Check out PIRI's specs for 40-channel systems: piri.com I believe Lucent is their biggest customer. Pat