Let me try and break this device thing down. OK so a waveguide is basically just a conduit for the Lightwaves to pass through, (a pipe if you would) if you keep the width exactly the same the single mode lightwave will not get distorted. They already know that their material will work at the speeds needed for 25gig because one time they dropped their chromophore it in another company’s device and it ran at 30 Gig and it took 2.2 volts to run it. So a waveguide is like the chassis on a car, the goo is the engine and the body is the packaging, then the fiber optics is the road, kinda like that. They do want to bring the voltage down though hopefully to 1 volt I think it was. The entire thing is called a modulator and it is part of a transceiver (trans goes both ways). Which is what Lightwaves entry into this market will be, but there are many many uses/devices, too many to note. Just Watch the shareholders presentation in Boulder on Thursday.

Unlike anything out there, Lightwaves Waveguide, the active ingredient (Perkinamine) and the packaging (yet to be comleted) will all be plastic, cheap High Temperature, Stable Plastic (variations of their patented Perkinamine) that operates in a fempto second (a femtosecond is to a second as a second is to about 31.71 million years) Super Fast with Very Low Voltage, Green.

Many , Many, Many Measurements and many very complex factors and when novices like us trying to figure it out it get very confusing so I don’t bother.

I just googled it and low and behold Stevey had dug up this old Lightwave logic release yesterday “With the combination of our proprietary electro-optic polymer material and the extremely high optical field concentration in the slot waveguide modulator, the test modulators demonstrated less than 2.2 volts to operate. Initial speeds exceeded 30-35 GhZ in the telecom, 1550 nanometer frequency band. This is equivalent to four, 10Gb/sec, inorganic, lithium niobate modulators that would require approximately 12-16 volts to move the same amount of information.”

Many of us have all vetted this probably 10 hours a week for years and years. The questions and comments are going to get ridiculous but that is what success in such a complex science brings. Do yourself a favor and just smile when stupid questions are asked, try to be helpful not condescending. Respect takes time.

Let us enjoy this time, one day we’ll be able to say, well kids it was back in aught 4 or aught 5 (2004,2005) I first started researching a technology that took some 12 -15 years to come to fruition. Pretty Fricking Cool Huh Guys?

It is going to be pretty cold (40ish f) in Boulder so for those going bring a jacket, proly going to rain on Thursday and in the morning on Friday.

Xster Rambling this morning, I’ve got a 14 hour day today then I have to pack, no time today for posts