RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Atomic I think the problem with BAE validation is that Opel is allowed to provide the results but BAE would be the last company to publicize owing to the fact that the last thing they would want to do is draw attention to the technology that they want to buy. I was surprised to hear at the presentation that Boeing knows about POET but since they are also a large military contractor it makes sense that they would be aware of what BAE is doing.
Lee Shepherd:
The third piece of this technology is something called an optical thyristor and he has spent 12 years just on the thyristor design and we are actually fabricating some of these at BAE over the next few months. These devices are very interesting because they are so versatile. They can be used as a laser. They can be used as several kinds of lasers. They can be used as a detector. They can either be used to detect infrared or visible light. Whatever kind of energy level you want to detect. What is truly unique about this is the same optical thyristor can be used for both. So one of the reasons the US Defense Department has been interested in funding this type of technology and has really funded it for 15 years. We are still getting grants from NASA that we are still spending. Their big motivation to pursue this technology is that you can build an array. Today you can build and array of detectors. That’s the night vision equipment that everyone has seen in the movies or you can build lasers that shoot things or shoot people. Geoff’s technology can do both. So basically you can have a panel, an array that is configured as a detector and in micro seconds I mean millionths of a second you can change the bias on those things and turn them into lasers. So in a military application your radar panel is also your direct energy weapon. It sounds like Star Wars but it actually works. The reason it works is that the US Defense Complex has put money into this technology for years and they believe in it.