We have 2 photonics companies (that we know of) working with Lightwave's polymer. WHY would they be working with a material that can't be scaled or commercialised. What is the rationale behind such a decision?
Perhaps this will help...temperatures at which standard fiber optic equipment runs within have been tested and the Perkinamine within the modulators does not degrade nor is performance impacted. The testing between 3000 hours and 5000 hours is most likely (using my own reasoning and deduction skills as I have a MENSA level IQ and believe it to be sufficient to make such comment with a high level of certainty and accuracy) due to one (possibly more) customers asking the question "How long will the modulators operate properly before failure occurs and replacement is needed?" Testing was done to show at both the 8 and 10 year marks of constantly operating the modulators did not fail and passed with flying colors.
Regarding the extreme low end of the temperature scale that you're concerned about... that encompasses a different market than the initial target market of Data & Telecom... it involves Space (as in the final frontier) and once components for that application are built a completely different set of testing parameters will be used.
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