All-optical switches use micromirrors, which were originally developed to bounce laser beams around the surface of a silicon chip.
Now he develops such profit-seeking wares as the Lambda Router, the world's first big all-optical switch, due later this year.
Given the frantic pace of development in all-optical networks, that is likely to be a matter of months rather than years.
All-optical routers that can manipulate packets of light, pulling some signals off a fiber and sending the rest on their way, may not be widely available for years.
Infinera's optical routing gear is built around an all-in-one optical networking chip--which it calls a Photonic Integrated Circuit--that shrinks down the work done by a hodgepodge of parts in boxes from other vendors onto a pair of chips smaller than a fingernail.
HDMI, USB, S-Video, composite, coax and optical audio are all part of the 1.5-inch high and 17-inch wide unit.
"It has been a long-time dream for all optical researchers to reach the terabit per second mark, " says Kuwahara Hideo, one of the 20 researchers at the Fujitsu lab.
Gov. Crist said he wants to get rid of all those touch-screen machines and replace them with optical scanning systems that would read paper ballots.
Still, they're all just thick enough to accommodate a tray-loading optical drive, and the 15R and 17R also have enough room for a numpad on the keyboard.
An Israeli company, dubbed Lumus-Optical, is looking to change all that by offering up a relatively normal looking set of spectacles with twin microdisplays and mini projectors.
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Crist said he hopes to have all the state's touch-screen machines replaced by optical scan systems in time for next year's presidential election.
Lucent, Cisco and Nortel all keenly focus on the coming shift to IP-over-optical networking, but they hold divergent views on when and in what form it will arrive.
Both methods can be applied to a broad selection of objects, making them ideal candidates for anti-counterfeit detection for everything from diamonds to passports -- all that's needed to verify authenticity is an optical microscope.
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In any case, the same Democrats who claimed Florida was "stolen" by faulty ballot machines are now trying to discredit the optical-scanners that they have demanded -- all in order to sway the human judges who'll rule on Mr. Franken's legal challenges.
Unlike the Legend, it's a largely blank addition to the phone -- there's no optical trackpad this time, and all the buttons have migrated to other parts of the handset.
Replace all of it with new optical machines that work in the realm of photons--no translation required--and fiber-optics capacity will expand even more.
While the entry-level GZ-E320 misses out on the highlight mode, all five models share a 40X optical zoom, 1080p shooting from a BSI CMOS sensor, an SDXC card slot and a 3-inch touchscreen for previewing any would-be masterpieces.
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