"Even as we address customers' current
needs, meeting challenges on innovative projects such as NIF has allowed us
to refine skills that are critical to developing cutting-edge commercial
applications .

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When completed in 2008, NIF is
expected to be the largest laser in the world.

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About NIF and Laser Research at LLNL

The NIF project is currently under construction at LLNL with funding from
the Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Nuclear Security
Administration. The maximum grant values are:
NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field: $989,282; NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory , Pasadena: $1,465,850.
The program supports the application of emerging information technologies ,
concepts, and methodologies to demonstrate their feasibility and potential
science return; informs missions and research disciplines of promising
techniques and capabilities worthy of broader application and/or further
development through full maturity.

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The Company offers components, modules and subsystems for a
variety of markets including communications, display, commercial lasers,
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NIF 's 192 beams will produce a combined 500 trillion watts of power in an
ultraviolet laser pulse with energy up to 1."

"We believe our broad portfolio of analog, digital, and custom modulators,
coupled with our industry-leading expertise in integrated optics, allow us
to meet very unique needs for our customers' mission-critical designs, such
as the NIF project," said Mike Ricci, vice president of the Components and
Modules Group at JDS Uniphase.

Media Inquiries: Pamela Sufi, Corporate Marketing Communications,
408-546-4714 or pam.

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Experiments performed on NIF will be essential to DOE's
Stockpile Stewardship Program to ensure the safety, performance, and
reliability of the nation's nuclear stockpile.

General Inquiries: Contact your JDS Uniphase Representative or call
800-498-5378 in North America or + 800-5378-5378 outside of North America.

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"These custom modulators were developed in
partnership between the NIF laser design team and JDS Uniphase engineers . More information is available at
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NIF is the
latest in a long line of large laser systems at LLNL dating back to the
mid-1970's built for inertial confinement fusion research.

About JDS Uniphase

JDS Uniphase Corporation designs and manufactures products that provide
innovative optical solutions for communications, commercial and consumer
applications.

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NASA solicited proposals for the program to seek innovative ideas for
applying advances in information science and technology to increase life cycle
effectiveness and efficiency of the Science Mission Directorate research
endeavors across all of its science programs.

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George Miller, LLNL associate director for National
Ignition Facility Programs.

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LLNL is a
world leader in laser science and technology and laser researchers at LLNL
have been awarded 48 R&D 100 awards since 1978.

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A number of
innovations have arisen from laser research as LLNL including small,
inexpensive radars for motion detectors; backup system alarms; and medical
monitors; CAD/CAM systems used in engineering; fast, hand-held biological
detection devices; and lasers for medicine and manufacturing.

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As part of this 192-beam
laser system NIF is using custom designed and manufactured JDS Uniphase
lithium niobate modulators .

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With JDS Uniphase
design expertise and transmission modulators, which are critical for
precise pulse shaping, the NIF laser can perform a broad range of
applications in high-energy-density, inertial fusion energy, and basic
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JDS Uniphase Modulators Selected by Lawrence Livermore National Lab for World's Largest Laser

NIF will also have basic
science applications in such areas as astrophysics, hydrodynamics, and
material properties, and is expected to provide insight into the viability
of thermonuclear fusion as a future economic energy source. WASHINGTON , NASA's Science Mission Directorate,
Washington, selected two agency California organizations for grants to support
the Applied Information Systems Research Program.

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The research also supports the Vision for Space Exploration, NASA's long-
term plan to return astronauts to the moon and extend exploration to Mars and
beyond.

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JDS Uniphase (NASDAQ: JDSU) (TSX: JDU) today
announced that it has been awarded a contract to provide electro-optic
modulators for the National Ignition Facility (NIF) Project at the Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).

"NIF's phase and amplitude modulators must meet the stringent technical
requirements," said Dr.sufi@jdsu.nasa.

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For information about NASA and agency programs on the Web, visit:

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