Pellegrino says it's worth a billion+$$, but that's only 3 sectors - the (relatively) immediate defense sector, then the general computing (server/PC) market, followed by the smartphone/tablet market. But looking past the corporate presentation and Pellegrino to the taxonomy mapping on the NASA SBIR we could see licensing from sectors as diverse as:
Ad-Hoc Networks (see also Sensors)
Amplifiers/Repeaters/Translators
Antennas
Avionics (see also Control and Monitoring)
Circuits (including ICs; for specific applications, see e.g., Communications, Networking & Signal Transport; Control & Monitoring, Sensors)
Conversion
Data Fusion
Data Input/Output Devices (Displays, Storage)
Data Processing
Detectors (see also Sensors)
Display
Electromagnetic
Emitters
Fiber (see also Communications, Networking & Signal Transport; Photonics)
Filtering
Generation
Gratings
Image Processing
Lasers (Communication)
Lasers (Cutting & Welding)
Lasers (Guidance & Tracking)
Lasers (Ladar/Lidar)
Lasers (Machining/Materials Processing)
Lasers (Measuring/Sensing)
Lasers (Medical Imaging)
Lasers (Weapons)
Manufacturing Methods
Materials & Structures (including Optoelectronics)
Materials (Insulator, Semiconductor, Substrate)
Microfabrication (and smaller; see also Electronics; Mechanical Systems; Photonics)
Microwave
Multiplexers/Demultiplexers
Multispectral/Hyperspectral
Network Integration
Optical/Photonic (see also Photonics)
Photon Sails (Solar; Laser)
Power Combiners/Splitters
Radio
Routers, Switches
Sensor Nodes & Webs (see also Communications, Networking & Signal Transport)
Terahertz (Sub-millimeter)
Transmitters/Receivers
Waveguides/Optical Fiber (see also Optics)
(incidentally, I've noticed that few NASA SBIRs have such a breadth of applications listed in their taxonomy mapping as ODIS has here!)
