Abelna it is the goal of the India RFP to develop a monolithic GaAs platform that provides both electronic and photonic functions on a single die. That is what POET does and the current design does this in a four terminal thyristor. The fourth terminal has proven to be problematic and needs to be redesigned (the proof of concept for the redesign has been completed as I understand the last status update). That is where the development comes in. None of the three other companies offers a monolithic GaAs platform let alone a platform that is capable of producing the applications requested. That was a discovery that was made during the pre-submission conference to which only the companies that participated were eligible to submit bids. The details of the pre submission conference and the technology applications requested have been reviewed by this forum I believe to the general satisfaction of those of us involved in the forum discussions.

So in light of this I think the question becomes. Why would India proceed past the pre-submission and open up the bidding if there were no qualified technologies? I think the conclusion by many of us is that there is a qualified technology that requires development to complete and it is called POET.

POET’s GaAs platform has proven detecting, lasing, modulating, and switching capability on a single GaAs semiconductor chip

The above statement is from the R&R report and POET is to our knowledge the only company that has achieved III-V monolithic integration as per the PIC International Conference.