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Research and Markets: Emerging Nanophotonics Markets: New Revenues From Processing Light With Nano Devices

Posted on: Tuesday, 14 September 2004, 06:00 CDT

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com) has announced the addition of Emerging Nanophotonics Markets: New Revenues from Processing Light with Nano Devices to their offering.

During the past decade optical display, storage and transmission technologies have grown both in their commercial acceptance and respective market shares. Today high-resolution flat-screen monitors are replacing the venerable CRT, optical storage is a now a mass market, writeable CDs, DVDs and CD-ROMs are consumer items and flat panel television sets are coming down in costs. Meanwhile, sophisticated optical transmission such as WDM is no longer used primarily in long-haul telecom networks but rather in corporate data centers and Fiber-to-the home, which had been in permanent trial phase since the 1980s, is now being deployed in Asia and in some limited capacity within the US.

Nanophotonics, (define) appears to be the next frontier for optical technology and could potentially further reduce the costs of storing and transmitting bits or displaying them on high-resolution monitors. Nanophotonics also promises to enable the creation of future generations of products. However, to simply accept that nanophotonics will rapidly penetrate the market or serve as nanotech's growth engine would be naive.

Investors have every reason to be cautious in light of the optical networking market's results and before committing themselves to commercial nanophotonics projects, they as well as manufacturers and government agencies will have to answer some important questions:

-- Can nanophotonics remove cost barriers to the deployment of existing products and technologies?

-- Will nanophotonics create new market opportunities for existing technologies?

-- Can nanophotonics enable the creation of new products for existing markets?

-- Are there revolutionary new products that nanophotonics enables?

This report provides readers with answers to these questions. The report begins with an assessment of emerging materials for nanophotonics and discusses the kinds of devices that can be built with them. After that all the areas of information technology in which nanophotonics are believed to have an impact are examined, as well as what the timeframes are. Taking demand-side analysis as a starting point, this report digs down to what requirements nanophotonics devices will have to meet over the next few years, which of the R&D programs and commercial companies seem best prepared to seize the available opportunities and just who is supplying the finance for this exciting field. A strategic analysis of leading start-ups and public companies active in the field is also included. Forecasts of the potential revenues from nanophotonics over the next few years conclude this report.

Report Contents:

Executive Summary

Chapter One: Introduction

Chapter Two: Technology Assessment

Chapter Three: Market Potential for Nanophotonics

Chapter Four: The Players

Chapter Five: Opportunities from Nanophotonics

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c4921

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