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Technology Stocks : LUMM - Lumenon Innovative Lightwave Technology Inc. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Don Johnstone who wrote (25)	2/13/1999 8:38:00 PM
From: VINCENT MALGAPO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2484

Nice catch Don! For those of you who are having problems reading the JUNE 1996 article, read below: Keep in mind this was almost 3 years ago! Now they are almost ready for production. Dr. Iraj Najafi President and CEO, Lumenon Innovative Lightwave Technology, Montreal, Canada Dr. Mark P. Andrews Vice President and CTO, Lumenon Innovative Lightwave Technology, Montreal, Canada Title of the article: Sol-gel devices 'will meet cost targets of fibre to the home' By Joe McEntee A $1.3 million project to develop sol-gel glass devices for optical communications is under way in Canada. QPS Technology, a leading manufacturer of fibre-optic components, is backing the work to the tune of $741,000, with the remainder coming from the National Science and Engineering Research Council. The initiative, directed by Iraj Najafi at Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique, aims to develop dense WDM devices, erbium-doped planar waveguide lasers and amplifiers, tunable wavelength filters, and switches and modulators. Basic materials science, including the development of new sol- gel glasses and processes, will be carried out by Mark Andrews' group at McGill University, while Najafi's team will work on device design and fabrication. QPS is responsible for technology transfer. The company will develop packaging methods and carry out reliablity studies to telecom standards on an optical network testbed. Najafi told OLE: "We reckon that there will be a lot of interest in Europe on this project. We're very keen to initiate links with suitable research centres and manufacturers." Salim Juma, director of business development at QPS, was bullish about the prospects: "Simple devices should be ready for commercialization within a year. More complex products will follow 6 to 12 months later." He added: "Sol-gel devices will be inherently less expensive. In fact, the simplicity of the process is such that has the best chance of meeting cost targets for fibre to the home. Sol-gel also makes it easier to realize integrated optoelectronic circuits."