Optical Quotations

Flash turns up the optical volume so that whatever lies behind the lens - be it film or a digital sensor - is a little more receptive.

To get high data transfer rates in communicating information, you would love to use optical fibers. The problem is that light is extremely hard to manipulate. So we make a perfect copy of the information carried by the light. We transfer it to matter - the condensate.

In spite of the evidence for the disorder-induced M-I transition as inferred from the transport and optical measurements, the metallic state of conjugated polymers has been a subject of controversy.

Laser cooling opened a new route to ultralow temperature physics. Laser cooling experiments, with room temperature vacuum chambers and easy optical access, look very different from cryogenic cells with multi-layer thermal shielding around them.

There's nothing special about wireless networks except that wireless capacity is sometimes less than what you can get, for example, from optical fiber.

It's almost like an optical illusion, 'The Hobbit.' You look at the book, and it is really thin, and you could make a relatively thin film as well. What I mean by that is that you could race through the story at the speed that Tolkien does.

We are pleased with our solid financial performance in the first quarter and especially pleased with the growing business momentum we are seeing. Demand by carriers for our data and optical networks solutions has accelerated.

While maintaining its status as the dominant supplier of premium fiber and cable, Corning has emerged as one of the premier players in the red-hot optical networking space.

Lucent doesn't have the position in data networking that Cisco and Juniper Networks have, ... They are strongest in optical networking; in wireless they are competitive but in the middle of the pack; and data networking is their Achilles heel.

SDL is a component supplier. They supply a lot of materials to Nortel Networks and they're a nice story in the optical fiber equipment, ... ... optical fiber investments will raise from 3 billion in 1999 to approximately 15 billion in 2003. Globally the demand is going to be $40 billion for year 2003. And these are the people who are going to supply all the equipment.

Most people have been using a radio dial to scan frequencies to find the right music, we've made it possible to do the same in the optical realm.

If this lasts, the IPO window will open widely enough that more software companies, not just optical technology, will again be participating.

Certainly Nortel selling its optical business to Corning and then taking half of the company is probably the biggest story on Monday as far as news that moved the markets.

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

Given the big discount to other optical equipment manufacturing stocks, we think the downside is limited. We think it is worth buying the stock and are betting that management will deliver.

There is no cure for ugly, but you can make yourself into a human optical illusion.

We look forward to demonstrating the first integrated 10G PHY/EDC device at OFC. This integration, together with the device's onboard clock synthesizer and small inexpensive package, enables introduction of low cost 10GBASE-LRM optical modules.

I think it's dramatically overdone. The only area that they missed was in the optical systems business.

I think a lot of people were looking for Nortel to make a big deal in the optical space, where they've been making a lot of acquisitions, ... They went a little bit off the beaten track to go into the Web hosting space.

I think that in the semiconductor world one has to realize that there are a number of different dynamics that drive the industry. One of the most important things, which provide some security, is the fact that technology changeovers are a very important source of growth. In particular, in the communications world we're seeing lots of new standards, we're seeing the world move from copper protocols to optical fiber communications. So in some of these segments, almost independently of the economy at large, there's going to be huge growth just as we move into these new technologies and we take on these new areas in semiconductors.

I think that, you know, looking at all the systems that I've been studying over the last several years, that paper ballots with a precinct optical scan counters and random audits is the best system that we can have.

I think there's still some life left in these second-tier optical networking sector. And by (saying) second tier I'm not being disparaging. They don't have breakthrough technology; they're just good production people.

JDSU is pleased to introduce these innovative building blocks for the Agile Optical Network. We will continue to build our portfolio addressing the AON, a strategic imperative for the fast, cost effective deployment of IP-based broadband communications services.

Our investments in capital expansion and ongoing research and development, coupled with recent acquisitions, have positioned Corning as a world leader in optical networking, ... We believe the global appetite for Internet bandwidth and high-speed performance will continue to expand, and our products and technologies will help make that possible.

Our goal is to reinforce our ability to bring competitive products to the rapidly growing optical media product marketplace at a faster rate.

Our goal is to push optical lithography as far as we can so the industry does not have to move to any expensive alternatives until absolutely necessary. This result is the strongest evidence to date that the industry may have at least seven years of breathing room before any radical changes in chip-making techniques would be needed.

Optical sensors are an indirect assessment of soil fertility because it is using plants to give an indication of how well that soil is supporting the crop. There is also a wildcard in this technology with making recommendations and improving efficiency. And that's if there will be federal dollars available for growers to adopt it.

Optical networking is exploding, and the market will experience tremendous growth during the next decade. As we noted with Digital Subscriber Lines, few important technologies experience smooth and steady adoption cycles. Customers cannot accurately calculate the exact rate of adoption, and the inevitable result is inventory imbalances.

Mark Horowitz and I built it onto an optical bench in the lab. We spent and eight-hour span putting this optical light path together.

That strength is driven by improving markets and better visibility, with particular strength in our wireless and optical portfolios.

Whether for entertainment, business or personal communications, video is becoming a crucial application for our customers, and distance learning and video conferencing are natural extensions of our expertise in transporting video as part of the triple play to cable subscribers, ... We've built our video transport market leadership on carrier-grade optical Ethernet platforms that ensure reliability, performance and manageability - because best-effort is not good enough in the video world.

We continue to expect our optical Internet revenues to grow in excess of 125 percent in 2000 over 1999, to exceed $10 billion.

We have some very positive points at Alcatel, such as in fast Internet access and optical gear, ... I keep hearing that the European market is going to slow down in telecom and the like and, frankly, I don't believe it.

We believe the termination of talks with Corning does not take away from the earnings power or valuation potential of Nortel's optical or overall business.

Unfortunately, there is an overall growth in the number of optical disk plants and their capacity ... the reality is there's overall growth.

We combined radio measurements we made of the Zeeman effect and optical measurements of magnetic fields from starlight.

We would like to show a pathway to continue optical lithography.

We would have ended up with a dual system - optical scan plus electronic machine in each polling place for handicapped voters - and still had to buy the machines. We decided to replace the entire system.

We would get more constructive on shares on supply chain improvements and a pickup in the wireless business. Conversely, our outlook would worsen on margin deterioration and market share losses in the optical and enterprise businesses.

There are several applications for our products beyond FTTH. For example, one device under development is intended to double the number of users that can share Gigabit Passive Optical Networks (GPON). With today's preferred Telco video delivery system, RF overlay, our solution enables a 64-way split to accommodate users connected to an Optical Line Terminal (OLT) port at the serving central office, whereas today only 32 users can share such a port. Our future plan also includes products to alleviate the cable TV return path bottleneck, and RF power amplifiers for emerging wireless applications where signal clarity and power efficiency are critical in reducing capital and operating costs.

The Philippines copyright enforcement is weak and and we are concerned it has the potential of becoming a center of pirate optical media production in Asia given the doubling in the number of production lines for compact discs (CDs) and other optical media during the past year,,

While the sector could remain volatile until then, we encourage investors to get back into these beaten-down optical leaders.

The optical fiber unit is still for sale. We're still working with multiple bidders.

Within technology, specifically, we're looking at areas like the software, Internet infrastructure, optical networking equipment, areas where we're looking at very, very big markets, and where there are companies that are enormously well positioned by virtue of their technology position, the strength of their sales force, their ability to continue to deliver price performance increases; those are sort of the key issues,

This new search apparatus performs one trillion measurements per second and expands by 100,000-fold the sky coverage of our previous optical search.

We do not place a mask in contact with an image plane, which would be difficult to implement into manufacturing. Our evanescent wave lithography (EWL vs. evanescent wave imaging) is a more logical extension to optical lithography.

As the telecom and cable TV industries compete for consumer's triple play business (voice, video, data), a clash of major proportions is creating a great opportunity for well positioned equipment vendors to sell products tailored for FTTH, cable hybrid fiber coax and WiMax systems, ... Our new FTTH products dramatically reduce costs in the Optical Network Terminal (ONT), the interface box on the side of the house.

Corning wants to be a player in optical components space. Their biggest competitor is JDS.

Corning wants to be a player in optical components space, ... Their biggest competitor is JDS.

Current nitrogen recommendations assume four things: yield potential doesn't vary year after year, the yield level the soil will support without supplemental nitrogen is negligible, pre-plant nitrogen will be available throughout the growing season, and soil uniformity produces similar yield results across the field. Growers know that none of these assumptions are entirely accurate, and they can potentially be avoided using optical sensors.

Education at school continues what has been done at home: it crystallizes the optical illusion, consolidates it with book learning, theoretically legitimizes the traditional trash and trains the children to know without understanding and to accept denominations for definitions. Astray in his conceptions, entangled in words, man loses the flair for truth, the taste for nature. What a powerful intellect must you possess, to be suspicious of this moral carbon dioxide and with your head swimming already, to hurl yourself out of it into the fresh air, with which, into the bargain, everyone round is trying to scare you!

Technology in optical networking space is moving incredibly quickly,

Rollouts of triple-play access infrastructure and business Ethernet services infrastructure will drive demand for reconfigurable optical network systems. Ethernet and triple play will push a lot of traffic onto carrier interoffice facilities and metro core facilities, requiring more than simple, incremental bandwidth additions. The unique transport requirements of these services will force operators to move to a new generation of optical systems and architectures.

Nortel Networks had another quarter of outstanding growth, which reflected our continued market leadership in key growth segments, ... In particular, our optical Internet, wireless Internet, and high-speed local Internet solutions revenue grew at rates of more than 150 percent, 18 percent, and 80 percent, respectively, over the second quarter of 1999.

Nortel is their largest customer for optical equipment. A sharp slowdown at Nortel in deployment of optical systems certainly is not good for Corning, and I think this new lowered information accelerates or adds a little bit to the time frame (for a turnaround),

Now is absolutely the worst time for an optical IPO to come to market.

Demand for optical technology is insatiable. As long as demand continues then think this deal would do well. I don't see demand to let up.

Despite the ongoing market correction in the telecommunications sector, we believe the fundamentals remain intact for the optical networking industry.

As a result, we added significant capacity and fixed costs to meet expected market demand that has not materialized. We now expect sales this year in the range of $600 million to $700 million for this business, with significantly lower sales of optical amplifiers and other photonic components.

Al Gore actually deserves a lot of credit. In about 1986, he started asking questions like, 'Why don't we take these supercomputers and these optical fiber networks and put them together. Would that do anything?' Well, guess what? That eventually turned into the National Science Foundation Network, which became a core element of the Internet.

This is a significant deployment in the metropolitan optical networking space. We expect to see Asia's metro optical networking market continue to develop in the coming years.

This explosion is so far away that it is not visible in optical light, but we discovered that it is still quite bright in infrared light and X-rays.

This award re-affirms our execution strategy of achieving significant success in a highly competitive Indian telecom market and then taking our packet-aware optical transport products to international markets,

This advance is the basis for a technology that could build a large range of devices inside an optical fiber. If the signal never leaves the fiber, then it is faster, cheaper and more efficient.

This prime contract is one of the most significant network integration and optical wins for Lucent in the government space. This award underscores our ability to deliver communications solutions -- combining both products and integration services -- that meet the highly specific needs of our government customers.

There's a bit of a cautious mood in the IPO market. People who got burned by dot.com fever last year and early this year are being more careful. There has also been deflation lately in a lot of optical network stocks.

There's a lot of strength in technology names that are high-quality companies, particularly those related to optical networking,

There's an expectation built into Nortel's valuation for the company to outperform relative to expectation and with all of the indications prior to the call that the demand for optical remained quite strong, especially with service providers.

It's not an optical illusion, it just looks like one.

The bed is just gorgeous. It's bright and colorful. It looks like a whole bunch of mattresses piled up. But it's an optical illusion. It's really just fabric, stuffing, nails and a staple gun. It's so tall, you need a ladder to get in.

After that, there may be opportunities for integration, but we already see opportunities for comprehensive solutions with both the optical networking division products, as well as the Access division's products with in PMC,

The migration to next-generation high-definition optical disc formats is not going smoothly.

Immersion lithography has pushed the limits of optical imaging. Evanescent wave lithography continues to extend this reach well into the future. The results are very exciting as images can be formed that are not supposed to exist.

Immersion lithography has pushed the limits of optical imaging.

If you look at streamers in the laboratory and in sprites, the optical data tell us they are the same phenomenon.

If the line should happen to get real long because of long lines, you could then use the optical scan. It goes into a secure box. It gets counted at the end of the night. And this would only be for the May election.

Circuit emulation, though advancing in sophistication, continues to concern operators and limit their enthusiasm for transitioning fully to Ethernet optical transport. Most operators believe Ethernet will in fact catch up soon, but standards work must be completed, performance demonstrated, and interoperability proven.

I believe joining JDS Uniphase will help us maximize market penetration during the transition from fixed wavelength to tunable solutions. The acquisition gives us access to high-volume manufacturing capability and expanded sales channels. Adding Agility's tunable lasers to JDS Uniphase's family of wavelength management modules creates a one-stop shop for anyone wanting to assemble an agile optical network.

The growth in Lucent's optical systems revenue has been the biggest disappointment.