Jet Vapor Coating of Ceramic Structural Fibers

Demand for high speed transmission and processing of information is soaring. Optical fibers are the workhorse for high speed, high-volume data transmsission. Current electronic systems cannot receive, switch, process and retransmit data at comparable volume and speed. The recognized solution for the future is "all optical" circuitry. These circuits require "nonlinear" optical materials and integrated photonic devices not yet available. To meet this need, Jet Process Corp will use its new, clean, safe, pollution-free JET VAPOR DEPOSITION (JVD) process for low cost manufacture of important new classes of "nonlinear" optical materials: "nanoscopic" semiconductor "clusters", a few dozen atoms wide, are "embedded" in optical quality, micron-scale ceramic thin films. Integrated photonic circuits and devices will be made from these nonlinear materials. Jet Process and collaborators will develop these photonic materials and nonlinear devices for computer and telecommunications equipment markets. IBM expects optical switches to attain a large share of a forecasted $30 billion market.