Rainer, It is very helpful for you to make such points clear.

Although I may be wrong, I thought that there were meant to be two epitaxial suppliers of POET recipe GaAs discs. Who, if any, was the second?

Additionally,I wonder also what your views are on the Taylor Legacy. As it concerns me that GT has rather been allowed to fade away by the current management team. For example at the THM it was only PC who recieved an honourific comment from Adjit, and it was PC only who made an honorific comment about GT.

Are there others, like me, who see Geoffrey Taylor as rather a genius to have created such a disruptive process for manufacturing IC and the specific tools needed to implement POET as truely integrated chip. It may be that GT himself wanted, like an old soldier, to simply fade away and chose to avoid the accolades and praise. But I cannot rid myself from the sense that he has been somewhat disregarded in the furore of bulding and establishing the business structure of new PTI to build POET products.. For example should we not have had by now a Chief Technical Officer to replace him. There is something uncomfortable with this situation. ALthough I do feel that the recenctly acquired scientific brain power might be cock a hoop with the POET secrets they now know.

I would be most intersted to hear the views of others who have spoken with GT for their impressions. Just what is the Taylor legacy? Will the new IP acquired in DenseLight and BB be eventually produced using POET epitaxi, Talylor's Secret Sauce. I am not entirely happy that these acquistions might mean a move away from what I see as the GT leagacy but what do I know.

Thoughts?

sula