Scientific Solutions Inc. of North Chelmsford, Mass., will develop a suite of ultradense WDM components using liquid crystal technology with a $598,772 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research award from the US Department of Energy. The company will further develop, design and fabricate a set of solid-state, random-access, all-optical cross switches that are tunable over a wide range of wavelengths and that can resolve 64, 200 and 1761 channels in the C-band, centered on 1550 nm.