[paralleloptics] Re: some announcements
- From: "Bruce Booth" <blbooth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <paralleloptics@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 10:43:49 -0500
Thanks for the note. Certainly finders fees are appropriate. Our best option
of course is to have a company or multiple companies fund us to keep us
going. I do have a contact at Intel -do you have a brochure or some
background info on the conference that I can send to him so that he can
interact with his management?
By the way we do have facilities and die design capability for making custom
ribbons. -- so we could make plastic fiber ribbons with our fire retardant
epoxy from DSMDesotech who supplies this stuff to the industry. We can use
nearly any sized fiber and up to 64 in one ribbon -expandable to higher
numbers later -and make any length We also make connectors using an MT sized
footprint for the ferrule but our own precise alignment system -so we could
provide fully connectorized ribbons/ cables if there is a need and put the
MT like ferrules in housings ---and if needed use another companies military
robust housing. Our equipment can handle both plastic and glass fiber. For
cabling the ribbons we have used for 100 foot length custom helical
support-but work with Gore who will extrude a Kevlar re enforced cable
jacket. Just a thought.
Dr. Bruce. L. Booth
Optical CrossLinks, Inc.
206 Gale Lane
Kennett Square, PA 19348
phone: 610 444 9469 X 109
fax (phone alert first) 610 444 9491
cell: 610 745 0828
http://www.opticalcrosslinks.com
-----Original Message-----
From: paralleloptics-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:paralleloptics-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dr. Paul Polishuk
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 10:30 AM
To: paralleloptics@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [paralleloptics] Re: some announcements
Bruce:
Good to hear from you and that you are alive and well! I continue to talk
to NITTA and they ask about you. I believe they should be the ones to
contact first. I would be glad to see if I can also interest an Angel
investor or other company in investing in your company.
--
I would suggest that if we are successful that IGI Consulting(IGIC) get a
5% finder's fee for any money raised if you agree.
With regard to POFWORLD, let's see how it goes. If it goes well, then we
could spring to get you out to Santa Clara. Especially if we could line up
some potential investors. Do you have any ideas of other speakers or topics
that we should include. I was thinking of inviting the Dow and Gemfire folks
too. I was rebuffed by one INTEL guy who I asked to give a Keynote talk on
Interconnection. Do you have any contact there?
Looking forward to working with you on locating investment money.
All the best,
Paul
P.s. for you information, two POFTO members announced for the first time
at OFC, the availability of PMMA GI-POF and PF GI-POF. A lot is happening in
the POF arena!
> From: "Bruce Booth" <blbooth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: paralleloptics@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 09:53:43 -0500
> To: <paralleloptics@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [paralleloptics] Re: some announcements
>
> Paul, I saw your note and comments back to parallel optics as I am on the
> mailing list as well. At Optical CrosslLinks we are still trying to make a
> business of our unique approach so thought I should up date you.
> Unfortunatlely we are not well funded and cannot attend meetings like the
> OFC. However, we are working with Sanmina-SCI who was going to show some
of
> our unique products at their booth but at the last minute I guess there
was
> a communication mix up and it did not happen. They did show them at
another
> meeting with good response.
> I serve on a national committee, NEMI (for National Electronci
Manufacturing
> Initiative for optical interconnections) which is focused on developing
> attributes and comparisons between electronic and optical interconnections
> at the board and backplane level. We have conference calls every two weeks
> under the leadership of Jack Fisher who heads up the group. Jack has asked
> me to head up a sub group to pull together attributes for the major
> technologies for polymer optical interconnections for these board level
> interconnects. My subgroup in which Jack also participates has selected
our
> unique self development approach, etching as done by IBM, Shipley, and now
> Dow Corning, and embossing currently being explored in Europe by IBM and
the
> Fraunhofer Inst. as the critical key broadly representative techniques.
> Confidentially I have attached the not yet completed living table with the
> attributes that I an coordinating the assembly for all three approaches
with
> the contributions from the companies noted for the approach they are
working
> on. It is clear that we are far ahead of the others and are delivering
> products with our connected waveguides. Please keep it for yourself as it
> should be officially released only by Jack and the full NEMI group,
however
> I wanted to provide you a flavor of our position.
>
> We have provided Intel polymer waveguide arrays fully connected on boards
> with I/O mirror interfaces with a few micron precision (they requested +/-
8
> and we delivered far better ) and with losses well below there max. They
are
> currently in the evaluation stage ---and hopefully will get back to us
with
> a larger program this summer. They published in their technical journal
> results, referencing our technology so I can talk about it, of similar
> boards that we made for them 2 years ago. The recent deliveries this past
> fall and winter were far better. This week Bridgestone from Japan visit us
> who commented that several companies in Japan are getting back into
polymer
> board level interconnections and all look to our technology as the key
> leading approach and are trying to reproduce it. Hopefully we can get a
> program going with them.
>
> Our major issue is survival ---we are small and go month to month on a few
> projects to survive. We have been supplying our custom fiber ribbons made
> with our own die designs, fully connectorized with our proprietary
approach
> when they are non standard ribbons for aerospace into Boeing / Air Force
> applications in fly by fiber. Also we are supplying them unique finger
sized
> 1x16 polymer waveguide splitters with outstanding performance that they
want
> to use in the next phase of the work. We have developed for the same
> application unique dual waveguide sensor heads which in combination with
an
> encoding strip from a company we collaborate with for these applications a
> small remote optical sensors for position sensing at the +/- 30 micro-
> meteres over 7.5 inches length for purely optical fly by light remote
> control of aircraft to eliminate EMI issues which can drop out the planes
> control computer when connected with wires.
>
> We are discussing with several other companies on novel applications that
it
> appears we are the only ones that can deliver---star couplers and board
> level connections. We have also provided novel micro fluidic capillaries
for
> bio chip applications that can be combined with our waveguide sensing
which
> has been published at a conference a week or so ago with excellent results
> for our polymer chips relative to other approaches. Thus we have
incredible
> diversity with our capability and technologies.
>
> My clear frustration is we need funds to really keep alive ---and these
> small projects in the exploratory phases do not bring in large amounts.
> Large companies are still afraid to invest as the large markets are years
> away but we still discuss with Litton (a division of Northrup-Grummen)
and
> are starting to work on a board /backplane demo for Sanmina. Small
> companies are in my position. VC's look at our $500K debt etc. and go
away.
> However, we can be asset purchased (as almost happened with Sanmina and
with
> Northrup-Grummen until market conditions scared the top management). This
> approach would enable us to sell the company, which would be reformed by
the
> buyer, without the debt, and the monies would be distributed based on
legal
> protocol and level / date of securitization of the debt, (we have
> securitized all the debt).
>
> Thus any contacts or help you might suggest is most welcome. I pay as
> independent contractors former employees and founders out of the meager
> project monies, and pay the utilities. And I am behind in their payments.
> The land lord is a family friend and investor so we have not paid rent for
> over two years. I have not taken pay for nearly 3 years-but survive on my
> DuPont pension. My goal is to make a business out of what we know is a
great
> technology. Having an Angle investor who believed in what we are trying to
> do and could support us at a low level until the market really comes back
> would be fantastic.
>
> I have attached the NEMI table. Take a look at our WEB page, which are
> getting ready to further update with product brochures for splitters, star
> couplers, compact 1x2 arrays for ribbon interconnect splitting, board edge
> with component I/O connections, mother board to daughter board waveguide
> array interconnections (which we have demonstrated and provided for one
> customer to date) with a footprint identical to standard electronic
> connectors and some bio chip info from the customer.
>
> I would love to present at your meeting -but with the current finances
would
> need support to travel and attend. Would appreciate your thought on how we
> can gain support to help us survive. Many thanks Bruce
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Dr. Bruce.
> L. Booth
> Optical CrossLinks, Inc.
> 206 Gale Lane
> Kennett Square, PA 19348
> phone: 610 444 9469 X 109
> fax (phone alert first) 610 444 9491
> cell: 610 745 0828
> http://www.opticalcrosslinks.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: paralleloptics-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:paralleloptics-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dr. Paul
Polishuk
> Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 8:28 AM
> To: paralleloptics@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [paralleloptics] Re: some announcements
>
> Ronny:
> Thanks for sending me the news on the optical interconnects. The Plastic
> Optical Fiber Trade Organization (POFTO) is organizing its annual meeting,
> POFWORLD 2005( see www.pofworld.com) at the Santa Clara convention Center
> June 21-23. The organizers are planning a session on plastic optical
> interconnects in order to generate interest with potential end users. At
OFC
> last week, there was some interesting work reported by Dow corning and
> Gemfire. Intel has a group in Santa Clara working on Plastic optical
> Interconnects but won't talk about it but I am sure they will attend as
they
> did last year. I would like to invite you to present an overview of what
is
> happening in Europe on optical Interconnects in general and specifically
on
> using POF. Please let me know at your earliest convenience if you are able
> to accept our invitation.
> All the best,
> Paul Polishuk
>
> --
>
>
>> From: Ronny Bockstaele <ronny@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Reply-To: paralleloptics@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 22:13:37 +0100
>> To: paralleloptics@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [paralleloptics] some announcements
>>
>> Dear,
>>
>> Some announcements related to parallel optical interconnects, to keep
> this=
>> =20
>> mailing list alive:
>>
>> --> there are two events related to the packaging of opto-electronics
> in=20
>> Belgium in the next few months:
>> o Workshop on Micro-optics =96 Benefits for Industry in Brussels, see=20
>>
>
http://www.micro-optics.org/public/events/micro_optics_benefits_for_industry
> =
>> ).
>> o 15 th European Microelectronics and Packaging Conference & Exhibition,=
>> =20
>> see http://www.empc2005.be
>>
>> --> Over the past years, we've seen a decrease in industrial activity
> on=20
>> 1-D and 2-D parallel optical interconnect modules. The latest news
> comes=20
>> from a European player: Infineon stops the standard Paroli line, after=20
>> selling the transceiver business to Finisar, see=20
>>
>
http://www.infineon.com/cgi/ecrm.dll/ecrm/scripts/public_download.jsp?oid=3D
> =
>> 122665&parent_oid=3D-8212.=20
>>
>>
>>
>> Note that this list is open for discussion! All new products,
> take-overs=20
>> and related conferences can be announced on this list, simply by mailing
> to=
>> =20
>> paralleloptics@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Note that if you reply to this mail,
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>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Ronny
>>
>> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
>> Ronny Bockstaele
>> Independent Consultant Photonics
>> bvba PHOCON, Bergbosstraat 224
>> B-9820 Merelbeke, Belgium
>> tel+fax: 32-9-362.1995, GSM: 32-473-645879
>> mail:ronny@xxxxxxxxx, web: http://www.phocon.be
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>>
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