A walk down memory lane.

The realities of POET life and the $70 club. Lumenge commented the other day about the current discussions beginning to lean towards the historical vision of there being so many applications for the OI that it would be too big for any one company to own.  If I read it right it was a facetious remark that combined a mix of humor and perhaps reflection of how wrong that narrative was and let’s not get carried away with what the potential is in the second generation of POET.

Personally I see very little to equate then and now in both the attitude of the people involved and the breadth of application. I mean the OI I believe will be a very important technology for optical integration that could easily be an approach that industry will use as a default process as needed because it is easily adaptable to the current industry.

But the GaAs platform as envisioned by its creator and those around him held way too much technology breadth for any one company to develop. "they will do  things with it that no one ever thought of...we don't know what it will become". Those statements made regarding the GaAs technology were propagated on the basis of belief that it could  be developed and that the world needed it.  

Check out the list of patents and you will find a platform that revolutionizes just about everything in the semiconductor industry. There are reasons why people were saying it would take many companies to develop it.

That is not what POET is today but I do want to see all this IP by Dr Taylor looked at and investigated in the future and I think that will happen.

PAT. NO.                             Title

1             10,116,115          Full-Text              Integrated circuit implementing a VCSEL array or VCSEL device

2             10,038,302          Full-Text              Optoelectronic integrated circuit

3             9,904,015            Full-Text              Optoelectronic integrated circuitry for transmitting and/or receiving wavelength-division multiplexed optical signals

4             9,755,060            Full-Text              Fabrication methodology for optoelectronic integrated circuits

5             9,698,457            Full-Text              Optoelectronic integrated circuitry for transmitting and/or receiving wavelength-division multiplexed optical signals

6             9,684,193            Full-Text              Optical closed loop microresonator and thyristor memory device

7             9,684,192            Full-Text              Optical closed loop microresonator and thyristor memory device

8             9,679,987            Full-Text              Fabrication methodology for optoelectronic integrated circuits

9             9,625,647            Full-Text              Optoelectronic integrated circuit

10           9,614,112            Full-Text              Imaging cell array integrated circuit

11           9,590,742            Full-Text              Thyristor-based optical XOR circuit

12           9,590,600            Full-Text              Thyristor-based optical flip-flop

13           9,590,136            Full-Text              Semiconductor device for optoelectronic integrated circuits

14           9,559,636            Full-Text              Thyristor-based optoelectronic oscillator with tunable frequency and optical phase lock loop employing same

15           9,553,715            Full-Text              Optical phase detector for an optical phase lock loop

16           9,544,062            Full-Text              Coherent optical receiver

17           9,541,945            Full-Text              Thyristor based optical and gate and thyristor-based electrical and gate

18           9,490,336            Full-Text              Fabrication methodology for optoelectronic integrated circuits

19           9,490,321            Full-Text              Optoelectronic integrated circuit

20           9,450,124            Full-Text              Fabrication methodology for optoelectronic integrated circuits

21           9,401,400            Full-Text              Single electron transistor device

22           9,377,587            Full-Text              Fiber optic coupler array

23           9,281,059            Full-Text              Thyristor memory cell integrated circuit

24           9,276,160            Full-Text              Power semiconductor device formed from a vertical thyristor epitaxial layer structure

25           9,209,815            Full-Text              Thyristor-based optical charge pump for an optical phase lock loop

26           9,201,287            Full-Text              Photonic analog-to-digital converter

27           9,188,798            Full-Text              Optical closed loop microresonator and thyristor memory device

28           9,082,637            Full-Text              Optoelectronic integrated circuit

29           8,947,925            Full-Text              Thyristor memory cell integrated circuit

30           8,080,821            Full-Text              Thyristor radiation detector array and applications thereof

31           7,776,753            Full-Text              Method of fabricating semiconductor devices employing at least one modulation doped quantum well structure and one or more etch stop layers for accurate contact formation

32           7,595,516            Full-Text              Optoelectronic circuit employing a heterojunction thyristor device to convert a digital optical signal to a digital electrical signal

33           7,556,976            Full-Text              Method of fabricating semiconductor devices employing at least one modulation doped quantum well structure and one or more etch stop layers for accurate contact formation

34           7,551,826            Full-Text              Integrated circuit employing low loss spot-size converter

35           7,432,539            Full-Text              Imaging method utilizing thyristor-based pixel elements

36           7,409,120            Full-Text              Integrated circuit for programmable optical delay

37           7,385,230            Full-Text              Modulation doped thyristor and complementary transistor combination for a monolithic optoelectronic integrated circuit

38           7,333,733            Full-Text              Optoelectronic clock generator producing high frequency optoelectronic pulse trains with variable frequency and variable duty cycle and low jitter

39           7,333,731            Full-Text              Multifunctional optoelectronic thyristor and integrated circuit and optical transceiver employing same

40           7,332,752            Full-Text              Optoelectronic circuit employing a heterojunction thyristor device to convert a digital optical signal to a digital electrical signal

41           7,262,429            Full-Text              Thz detection employing modulation doped quantum well device structures

42           7,247,892            Full-Text              Imaging array utilizing thyristor-based pixel elements

43           7,176,046            Full-Text              Apparatus and a method of fabricating inversion channel devices with precision gate doping for a monolithic integrated circuit

44           7,173,293            Full-Text              Semiconductor devices employing at least one modulation doped quantum well structure and one or more etch stop layers for accurate contact formation

45           7,064,697            Full-Text              Photonic sigma delta analog-to-digital conversation employing dual heterojunction thyristors

46           7,015,120            Full-Text              Method of fabricating semiconductor devices employing at least one modulation doped quantum well structure and one or more etch stop layers for accurate contact formation

47           7,012,274            Full-Text              Modulation doped thyristor and complementary transistors combination for a monolithic optoelectronic integrated circuit

48           6,995,407            Full-Text              Photonic digital-to-analog converter employing a plurality of heterojunction thyristor devices

49           6,977,954            Full-Text              Semiconductor laser array device employing modulation doped quantum well structures

50           6,974,969            Full-Text              P-type quantum-well-base bipolar transistor device employing interdigitated base and emitter formed with a capping layer

PAT. NO.                             Title

51           6,954,473            Full-Text              Optoelectronic device employing at least one semiconductor heterojunction thyristor for producing variable electrical/optical delay

52           6,936,839            Full-Text              Monolithic integrated circuit including a waveguide and quantum well inversion channel devices and a method of fabricating same

53           6,873,273            Full-Text              Photonic serial digital-to-analog converter employing a heterojunction thyristor device

54           6,870,207            Full-Text              III-V charge coupled device suitable for visible, near and far infra-red detection

55           6,853,014            Full-Text              Optoelectronic circuit employing a heterojunction thyristor device that performs high speed sampling

56           6,849,866            Full-Text              High performance optoelectronic and electronic inversion channel quantum well devices suitable for monolithic integration

57           6,841,806            Full-Text              Heterojunction thyristor-based amplifier

58           6,841,795            Full-Text              Semiconductor devices employing at least one modulation doped quantum well structure and one or more etch stop layers for accurate contact formation

59           RE38,682             Full-Text              Grating coupled vertical cavity optoelectronic devices

60           6,479,844            Full-Text              Modulation doped thyristor and complementary transistor combination for a monolithic optoelectronic integrated circuit