Someone posted yesterday that they could not get very excited about a Bleach Waveguide Modulator and I agree that even Lightwave said that it doesn’t have a current commercial use, but this is why I think that it is very useful tool, first of all they are made in house so they can make push them to the max voltage, (tear the molecule apart) overheat basically just them screw them up and throw them in trash can and then just build another, OK this is my understanding if I’m wrong I’m wrong but this is my take on it.
If I go back to the shareholders meeting a few years ago and a conversation I had with Fred Leonberger and I’m thinking possibly Bintz (in the lab) too, he was talking about poling above and below the thin film and how the laser passed through, (I think it even bounced back or 45’d or something), that caused me to pause and question, I said I think you mean on the ends poling from the edges of the film don’t you?, he corrected me and said no, this is thin film Above and Below to check the performance of the polymer. Oh I think that even in the lab tours the testing was 90 degrees to the surface. Remember Z with his I don’t care if it works in the lab I want to see it work in a device. OK think about it, Perk in a waveguide will need to be poled from the edges the lightwave will travel down the slot and either through or next to the perk (depending on the width and height of the guide and the thickness of the Perk/Corning) a different ballgame in my mind. Yes, the various configurations of the molecule work on films, now deposit in a waveguide, they did it and it worked, kewl, they even did it with a borrowed modulator. But they are shooting for less voltage remember they are going for less than 1 Volt. At this point this is almost as much about saving energy as it is speed. In my mind this is the reason that the Bleached waveguides are so important and useful, in other words they can show that it can works at a specific thickness, width, voltage, temperature, nm, etc.
I’m not sure if this will work, this is what in my opinion has changed, and hey I could be wrong we have some very talented individuals working on this, do they know it works? Absolutely, now it is all about learning how to control the different parameters.
Film testing from above
+/- Poling voltage (heat pole cool)
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------------ Perk
________Film
Test
Laser
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------------ Perk +/- Electric to cause the change the wavelength (1,0,0,0,1,1)
________Film
Bleached Waveguide (from the front and back of the slot)
Poling
------------ Perk
________Waveguide < - - - - -- - + Poling voltage
Testing in Device conditions
+/- Electric next to wave guides to cause the change in the wavelength (1,0,0,1,1,1)
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V
------------ Perk < -------- Laser traveling through the..
________Waveguide
Just how I see it in my mind
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And yes I agree we all wish that we had all the answers and they could just publish everything that they know, everything that they have found out what works, what doesn't, where the pitfalls are and exactly how they will proceed etc. Academia wise that would be great, I'm just not sure that would be a good thing business wise. It looks like they are going to protect it with the patents on the Core Molecule and keep the others a trade secret.
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