[2] MIT, Nanovation To Partner On Research Into Light-based Technologies That Will Revolutionize Communications, Boost Speed by 100s of Times.CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 21, 2000 Nanovation to provide $90 million for MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology center and 6-year research program The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, and Nanovation Technologies Inc. today announced plans to establish a world-class center dedicated to the research and prototyping of light-based photonic Dealing with light (photons). See photon and photonics. technologies, a 21st century field that will make communications hundreds of times faster. Nanovation will provide $90 million over six years to fund interdisciplinary MIT research and the establishment and operation of a cutting-edge research facility, to be located on the MIT campus in Cambridge, Mass. Nanovation will sponsor research on photonic, microphotonic and nanophotonic devices, circuits, systems and other photonics-related technologies for telecommunications, data communications data communications, application of telecommunications technology to the problem of transmitting data, especially to, from, or between computers. In popular usage, it is said that data communications make it possible for one computer to "talk" with another. and computing applications. Photonic or light-based technologies enhance the speed, capacity and bandwidth of telecommunications, data transmission and computing products. Examples of research areas to be undertaken at the Nanovation-sponsored center for photonic research include optical networking Communications between computers, telephones and other electronic devices using light. An optical network is far more reliable and has far greater potential transmission capacity than networking in the electrical domain. See optical fiber. devices, systems and methods, such as optical amplifiers, array transmitters and receivers, and photonic band gap materials. Future developments in photonics are expected to expand bandwidth and carry hundreds of times more information via devices that are hundreds to thousands of times smaller than current technology. &uot;Microphotonics is the next revolutionary technology,&uot; said Professor Lionel C. Kimerling, Director of the MIT Materials Processing Articles on Materials processing include:
(2) (MultiPath Channel) See multipath. ), who will direct the new center. &uot;The field of photonic research has emerged from unprecedented demands for more bandwidth created by communications applications such as the Internet, and for faster speeds for silicon chips. Light-based technologies are the logical, cost-effective way to meet these demands. By sharing resources and ideas, MIT will be able to conduct basic research and rapidly complete pre-commercial prototyping of photonic technologies. G. Robert Tatum, Nanovation's president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , said, &uot;Nanovation's relationship with MIT is part of our strategy to form partnerships with the nation's best universities to expand research that will allow the telecommunications industry to develop and commercialize new photonic technologies.&uot; Noting that the ultimate goal of this effort is the development of photonic technology as it relates to telecommunications, he said that Nanovation &uot;intends to help build the finest photonics center in the world on MIT's campus.&uot; MIT Provost Robert A. Brown
Robert A. Brown (born July 221951) is the 10th president of Boston University. He was formerly the provost of MIT. added, &uot;This research center is an example of the emerging partnerships between industry and universities that will drive much of American innovation in the post cold war world. This alliance greatly strengthens MIT's research-based teaching of undergraduates and graduate students and MIT's traditional commitment to be useful to society and industry. Ten million dollars of the total Nanovation commitment will go to endow en·dow tr.v. en·dowed, en·dow·ing, en·dows 1. To provide with property, income, or a source of income. 2. a. professorships in the field, and our faculty and students will have a state-of-the-art facility where we can do leading-edge research.&uot; Dr. Kimerling said, &uot;This most exciting research frontier has produced a new class of small-scale optical media using photonic crystal A nanostructured array of holes used as an optical semiconductor. Just as electronic bandgaps prevent electrons from passing through, photonic crystals create photonic bandgaps that confine light. design principles. The large scale integration of optical filters and switches will foster a new growth industry in bandwidth to the personal information appliance See Internet appliance. (hardware) Information Appliance - (IA) A consumer device that performs only a few targeted tasks and is controlled by a simple touch-screen interface or push buttons on the device's enclosure. . Bandwidth represents the size of the pipe that conducts information to the user. Today, fiber optics fiber optics, transmission of digitized messages or information by light pulses along hair-thin glass fibers. Each fiber is surrounded by a cladding having a high index of refractance so that the light is internally reflected and travels the length of the fiber has sparked impressive growth in the long distance carrying capacity carrying capacity the number of animal units that a farm or area will carry on a year round basis, including that needed for conservation of winter feed. Usually stated as dry cows or dry sheep equivalents per hectare. of so-called Wide Area Networks, but local distribution is constrained by electronics and wires. &uot;The challenge of the next generation is to build high capacity tributaries of photonic information streams to neighborhoods and individuals. Our research team of fifteen professors from five departments at MIT has already demonstrated an impressive array of low cost, microphotonic components for separating channels of light by their color (wavelength division multiplexing See WDM. (communications) wavelength division multiplexing - (WDM) Multiplexing several Optical Carrier n signals on a single optical fibre by using different wavelengths (colours) of laser light to carry different signals. ) and for switching (cross-connecting) among different optical streams. Mr. Tatum of Nanovation and Physics Professor David Litster, MIT Vice President and Dean for Research, will oversee the research collaboration. An initiative of MIT's Materials Processing Center (MPC), the research center will bring together faculty and students from the Departments of Materials Science and Engineering Materials science and engineering A multidisciplinary field concerned with the generation and application of knowledge relating to the composition, structure, and processing of materials to their properties and uses. , Electrical Engineering electrical engineering: see engineering. electrical engineering Branch of engineering concerned with the practical applications of electricity in all its forms, including those of electronics. and Computer Science, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry and Physics and researchers from Nanovation. Under MIT's standard collaboration agreement, MIT will be free to publish the research results. The straight-forward intellectual property arrangement provides for joint ownership of patentable inventions and improvements created jointly by MIT and Nanovation personnel, or by Nanovation personnel making significant use of MIT facilities. Intellectual property developed solely by MIT personnel will be owned by MIT. Nanovation, in turn, will own intellectual property developed solely by Nanovation personnel who have not made significant use of MIT facilities. The company has the right to a non-exclusive royalty-free license or an exclusive royalty-bearing license, limited to the MIT research that they have sponsored. About Nanovation Technologies Inc. Nanovation Technologies is a high-tech company that designs and develops integrated optical devices based on its patented microcavity lasers and resonators for the growing fiber communications market. Nanovation will offer a full line of products that will include optical cross-connect A network device used by telecom carriers to switch high-speed optical signals (OC-3, OC-12, OC-48, etc.). It differs from a digital cross-connect in that it deals with multiple high-speed signals that are switched in their entirety and not multiplexed together. switches, add/drop switches and wave division multiplexers. In addition, Nanovation will develop and deliver advanced photonic devices with the ability to integrate laser sources and optical switches on the same device. Nanovation initially will sell its components to telecommunications and data networking equipment manufacturers, and to original equipment manufacturers that supply subsystems. Nanovation is headquartered in Miami, Fla., with facilities in Evanston, Ill. and Burlington, Ontario Burlington (2006 population 164,415) is a city located in the Golden Horseshoe, across Lake Ontario and Burlington Bay harbour from Hamilton, in Halton Region, Ontario, Canada. . Its Web site is located at www.nanovation.com. About the MIT Microphotonics Center The MIT Microphotonics Center was announced in the fall of 1998 by the Materials Processing Center and commenced activity by the pooling of intellect and on-going research funds of an interdisciplinary group of faculty. The participating faculty had been working in loose collaboration across a variety of subjects ranging from components for telecommunications and computing to coatings. The driving forces for the organization were to amplify the synergy that had been realized through the multidisciplinary collaborations, and to attract industrial support for the research that the faculty wanted to do. The purpose of the Center is the creation of new materials, structures and architectures to enable the evolution of photonics from single discrete devices to integrated photonic systems. The Materials Processing Center is an interdepartmental in·ter·de·part·men·tal adj. Involving or representing different departments, as of a business, an academic institution, or a government: "the petty interdepartmental squabbling that surrounds the making of . . . MIT research center founded in 1980 in response to a recognized national need to improve the productivity of basic industries and to enhance the United States' ability to compete internationally in high technology systems. The purpose of the Materials Processing Center is to provide an environment where students and professionals from industry, government, and academia collaborate to identify and address pivotal multidisciplinary issues in materials processing and manufacturing in a way that unites the MIT Materials Community, creates new knowledge, produces knowledgeable people, and promotes exchange of knowledge. For more information about the MPC, see http://web.mit.edu/mpc/www/. About MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is one of the world's pre-eminent research universities, dedicated to advancing knowledge and educating students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century. It is known for rigorous academic programs, cutting-edge research, a diverse campus community, and its longstanding commitment to working with the public and private sectors to bring new knowledge to bear on the world's great challenges. 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