POET has seen early traction in two specific markets:

• Commercial – Providing the technological process for advancements in PCs, communications and other consumer devices. POET’s technology platform for optoelectronic integration exploits the optoelectronic and electronic behaviors of Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) semiconductor material. One of the benefits of this material, from a space electronics perspective, is that GaAs is significantly less susceptible to x-ray and gamma-ray total integrated dose (TID) radiation. GaAs is the long-standing choice for high-frequency (e.g. RF) devices and circuits. Important to the military is POET’s ability to integrate digital, RF, and optical technologies in a single device makes POET an important, high-performance capability that satisfies documented needs for multiple space systems and all Military Departments and Agency Tech Areas.

• Military – Providing military and aerospace systems with integrated digital, radio frequency (RF) and optical technologies in a single device. Progress in the commercial electronics industry over the past four decades has both driven and been driven by industry’s ability to create and serve markets with faster, cheaper, and smaller monolithic integrated circuits. Each product advance in turn becomes the driver for the next wave of IC technology. Today however, this paradigm is falling short. Particularly in the arenas of optoelectronics and very high-speed mixed-signal circuits silicon ICs will not serve, and no good monolithic technology exists. POET is perfectly positioned to address this technology void thus advancing product offerings in PCs, communications and many consumer devices which have been historically powered by technology breakthroughs such as POET.
• I think Commercial is swapped with Military