“[For the recently completed Filmmaker 's Lab, several XDCAM optical disc camcorders] did all the heavy lifting ... Using an optical disc format allowed the participants to make the most efficient use of their production time.”
Ian Calderon
“All optical switching is clearly one of the next great hurdles for the fiber optic industry.”
Kevin Kalkhoven
“Only by using adaptive optics to produce very sharp images could we have found this companion. It is too faint and too close to its parent star to be seen otherwise.”
Michael Liu
“This work has opened a new frontier in optics and optical technology whose final implications we cannot yet guess. That sounds like hyperbole, but I think it's true.”
Daniel Kleppner
“Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.”
Claude Debussy
“The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.”
Walter Benjamin
“The on-chip optical interconnect work that we are funding today should be available to corporate users in about eight years. It will take a little longer to get it into defense systems.”
David Honey
