On the fourth and 5th floors of the semiconductor lake Avenue structure, some tremendous, difficult and complex equipment sits in the spotless rooms with yellowish lighting, some of them are connected and ready for use, some of them are still in shrink film. It's all share a fresh analysis of Photonics ' task, Assembly and packaging, place of formation, in order to assist us with arresting non-heavy circuits on the base from layout stage to fabrication.

Build teams expected to deliver on the first day of the week another progressive equipment, in fact that is asking for the dismantling of the panels on the North side of the former building Kodak 81 and take-off too much equipment on a number of floors crane; the room was designed just for this task. But the downpour delayed work, said ed white, Deputy Vice President of AIM Photonics for the TAP facility, during a media tour.

This proportion of equipment that has been manufactured in Germany is specific to the methods is dangerous. It will allow the enterprise to execute own 1st production works for the buyer, works which are obliged to begin in December.

2 adepts of the company will work together with the employees of AIM Photonics on the chip, which was invented by the company. Their task: to know the process of joining the chip is very delicate fiber strands, a fraction of the thickness of the 1st of the hair.

White would not have opened almost any, not counting the most aggregate details about the company and its product, but he said, in fact, that the company is based in California. Privacy is considered a need in the Photonics industry, he said.

"In this commercials in the beginning to the market - it's a tremendous thing," said white.

But even if they do not have all the chances to talk about a particular job, civil servants AIM Photonics contemplate the beginning of work in the clean rooms of the crane as a huge milestone. These efforts withstood the clumsy social strife due to its own headquarters in the 1st days. And some critics - one of the most visible was warden gates mark Assini-have put under hesitation whether important municipal and Federal investments in efforts will become.

In its own database AIM Photonics is considered a program of the Ministry of defense. A public-private consortium aims to create a built-in Photonics industry in the USA and provide the ability to manufacture technology from within the state.

Built-in Photonics technology uses light instead of electrons, in order to arrange the device faster, smaller, easier and more efficient. DOD sees a large amount of utility for the technology, from sensitive fantasy systems to sensors and communications. It is already used in data transmission, biomedical devices and imaging equipment.

The Department of defense has invested $ 110 million in the program, and these funds support operations in Rochester, and plans across the country. The state of New york stressed $ 250 million, a huge share of which went to the reconstruction of the TAP Facility building and its equipment. But there is more to contribute to the study of the labour force and an accelerator of start-up Luminate in Rochester. He still designates $ 30 million for grants in order to assist interested Photonics firms in the area of the finger lakes.

Not least, the effort was pursued by early commitments from municipal and Federal elected officials who are focused on Photonics, will make thousands of working spaces in the direction of several years. Assini scored those complaints.

The Ministry of defense from the very beginning it was quite clear that AIM Photonics was not intended as a program of working spaces, and its favorites did not characterize it as such.

Straight at the moment, 7 engineers and a number of other employees are working at the headquarters of AIM Photonics, and the number of employees will be no more than 50, said white.

Some working spaces will come here, but they will come as technology Matures and firms grow, said John Maggiore, political Director of Governor Andrew Cuomo and Chairman of the new york state Board of Directors on Photonics.

"This is not a smooth program of working spaces in this sense," - said Maggiore correspondents on the first day of the week.