TWST: And can you explain the optical imposer?

Dr. Venkatesan:  The optical  interposer  is POET’s innovation. It’s our invention  that  is  protected  by  patents.  It  is a  solution  that  allows for co-integration  of photonic  and  electronic  devices  to  occur.  That  is important  especially as we get to these really  high speeds. It’s important to co-locate  electronics  and photonics.  And  today’s  conventional  methods of assembling  photonics devices  are bulky as well as expensive,  and don’t support really high volumes and scale.  And  so what POET  has done with its optical  interposer  is to be able  to transform  photonics  assembly to more semiconductor-like assembly processes. “Semiconductorization”  of photonics  is kind  of what we call our optical  interposer.  And that’s what  it  allows  us to  do —  it  allows  us to package photonics devices in much the same way as semiconductor devices or electronic devices package today