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POC Captures Innovation Award

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TORRANCE, Calif., March 30, 2006 -- Physical Optics Corp. (POC), a maker of optoelectronic components, received one of the US Army’s Ten Greatest Inventions awards for its wireless personal information carrier system, or WPIC (pronounced "Y-pick"). The award is the result of a small business innovative research program in which four companies were given $100,000 each to develop prototype EICs. The Department of Defense reviewed the designs in July 2004. POC was one of two companies that were given additional funding of $750,000 to continue developing a data storage and retrieval device....Read full article

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    Published: March 2006
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    physical optics
    The branch of science that treats light as a wave phenomenon wherein light propagation is studied by wavefronts rather than rays, as in geometric optics.
    defenseEICelectronic information carrierNews & FeaturesOpticsoptoelectronic componentsphysical opticsPOCTen Greatest InventionsWPIC

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