PSI-TEC has announced that their Perkinamine-NR material exhibits qualities far exceeding current industry standards. Exceptional broadband sensitivities were generated from visible wavelengths through traditional telecom 1310 nm and 1550 nm wavelengths and reach far beyond sensitivities seen in the best materials commercially available today.

Electro-optic (EO) performance tests conducted by PSI-TEC scientist Dr. C.C. Teng indicated a r33 figure of merit at 1550 nm to be approximately 7 times better than the previously best available polymer materials (e.g. CLD). The company recently reported r33 performance at 1300 nm to be approximately 2 times better than the previously best available materials and validated the fundamental theories of Aromatic Gain principles on which the company was formed.

"The significant benefit of having operational sensitivities this far out in the infra-red spectrum is that longer wavelengths allow better performance at lower energy levels. This means devices could be made smaller, faster and much more energy efficient than traditional polymer materials limited to approximately 800 nm. This attribute is especially important to battery-operated devices, reducing aerospace payload weights, or high circuit density applications. It also potentially opens the door to applications like bio-imaging, optical ICs, and optical computing" said Frederick Goetz, Jr., PSI-Tec President.

"The exceptional performance demonstrated by PSI-TEC's materials is the confirmation we needed to initiate our commercial growth phase, including the development of economically viable 40 Gbps optical module technology," explains Ron Genova, CEO. "40 Gbps are becoming increasingly important to alleviate internet traffic congestion in routers, switches, and backbones - a situation that will become exacerbated by the widespread deployment of fiber to residential and SOHO markets.”

“Momentum is also building for the eventual conversion of the public switched telephone network to Internet Protocol (IP) which will also drive higher speeds,” Genova continued. “I believe we are in the early stages of a major migration from 10 Gbps to 40 Gbps and I expect PSI-TEC's technology will intersect nicely with these emerging opportunities."

PSI-TEC's molecularly engineered organic materials are the basis of the company's disruptive technology platform. The resolution of the stability issue in material design, together with exceptional optical performance and a high-yield material-synthesis process, represents the potential to remove the final hurdle to the broad proliferation of low cost organic EO materials and components for numerous applications.

Based on promising results, the company recently delivered their material to a leading university that has close ties to government and military commerce. These tests will independently confirm the properties of the material and their internal conclusions.