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The Market for Integrated Optical Products: 2001-2005
CIR, March 2001
The huge success of the microelectronics industry over the past few decades has long made the optical world envious. While the electronics industry has been able to squeeze millions of devices onto tiny chips, the photonics industry has struggled to place a handful of devices onto a board! And while microelectronic engineers have been able to create complex systems at throwaway prices, most optical networking products still take the form of expensive point-to-point links.
Improvement in materials science and manufacturing techniques are now pointing the way to a entirely new industry with huge potential - the microphotonics industry. This industry will be based on integrated photonic chips in much the same way that the microelectronics industry is based on electronic chips. While acknowledging that optical integration may never quite reach the level of integration exemplified by electronic Vlsi, it now seems certain that the next few years will see a boom in integrated optical products such as arrays of WDM devices and attentuators, wavelength converters, devices that integrate optical switch and transport capability. In the immediate future, such developments promise sharp declines in the cost of optical networking gear - a fact that will help bring optics closer to the customer. In the longer term - optical chips will be necessary to reaching the holy grail of optical networking, optical packet switching.
The Market For Integrated Optical Products: 2001-2005
examines the commercial potential for integrated optics over the next few years. It takes a look at the potential of the manufacturing and materials science developments that are making micro-photonics possible and also the realities of integration today - some so-called integrated optical products are just optical boards not optical chips! In addition, the report looks at the components and sub-systems products that are likely to result from optical integration and the timeframe for their appearance. As with other CIR reports, the technological and commercial assessments contained in this report are based not only on extensive interviews of the companies developing integrated optics products and technologies, but also with the ultimate consumers of optically integrated products, namely the optical networking companies.
The report will also include forecasts of the market for common categories of integrated optical products and an assessment of the opportunities that this new technology will produce for all levels in the optical industry value chain.
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