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Biotech / Medical : Coherent (COHR) : Anyone else holding? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: appro who wrote (536)5/23/1998 1:45:00 PM
From: appro  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 788
 
>>What made it all possible was the steep drop in laser costs. Werner says that over the years, laser costs have gone from about $1,000 per milliWatt of power to less than $200 per mW.<<
Cable giant, TCI discusses new fiber-optic architecture using DWDM (dense wavelength division multiplexing). I do not know how relevant this is to the future of COHR but I found it interesting.
cedmagazine.com

Link from Craig Crawford on LightPath thread. exchange2000.com