They must demonstrate a viable plan to bridge these next 18 months. NRE, partnerships would be a huge step in that direction. 

Their plan is on slide 21.

Dielectric photonics and wafer level packaging developments benefit sales and accelerate time to revenue while completing development of optical engine

Sales of Active and Passive Devices to the merchant market as early as Q4 2017:

﹘ROSA: Receiver + De-Mux alone

﹘Modulators

﹘LAN WDM Multi- Channel Mux/De-Mux Devices

﹘Wavelength combiners for the sensing market

﹘Bragg gratings for External Cavity Lasers

﹘Single Chip LAN WDM Lasers

• Major enhancements to the current DenseLight sensing product-line to accelerate and grow revenue in 2018:

﹘SLEDs : Eliminate Hermetic Package, Active Alignment and Lens/Metallized fibers

﹘Broad Band SLEDs : Waveguide multiplexer to replace micro optic elements

﹘Narrow Line width laser :

     ﹘Waveguide filters

     ﹘Heater elements for tuning