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Nano-optics:
Changing the Rules for Optical System Design
Dr. Hubert Kostal, Vice President of Marketing and Sales
This
white paper outlines how NanoOpto
Corporation is applying proprietary nano-optical
and nano-manufacturing technologies to design and fabricate
novel components for optical networking. Unlike conventional
bulk optics, which operate on a physical scale many times
larger than the wavelengths of light used in optical communications,
NanoOpto’s modular nano-optics feature
nano-scale structures much smaller than the wavelengths of
light. These tiny structures interact “locally”
with light to produce a wide range of optically useful effects,
some familiar, others novel and unique to NanoOpto’s
technology. In creating and commercializing a growing family
of optical systems building blocks, NanoOpto
is addressing the central problems that have constrained the
economic viability of optical networking, particularly in
the access and metro domains. |
