April 3, 2006 – Lumera Corp. (Nasdaq: LMRA), a nanotechnology company, announced that it had received an order from Optoelectronics Industry Development Association (OIDA).
The association administers the Photonics Technology Access Program sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for interaction with Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering.
Working collaboratively with Duke, Lumera will develop optical interconnect and wafer scale photonic integrated devices using the company’s polymer photonic technology and fabrication expertise combined with Duke’s optoelectronic passive and active optoelectronic device integration technologies. The modulators will be used as optical interconnects in Duke’s integrated optoelectronic micro- and nanosystems. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.