{"title":"Competitiveness in the US Optics Industry","authors":"James W. Phelps","doi":"10.1364/oft.1988.wa2","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"There is no question that foreign competition has been successful in taking over the optical production market. In 1984, 63.5% of high technology laser optics were made in North America, with 17.5% produced through off-shore facilities. It has been predicted that by the end of 1988 that the North American share will drop to 45% and the Asian share, alone, will increase to 40.0%.","PeriodicalId":354934,"journal":{"name":"Optical Fabrication and Testing","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Optical Fabrication and Testing","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1364/oft.1988.wa2","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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There is no question that foreign competition has been successful in taking over the optical production market. In 1984, 63.5% of high technology laser optics were made in North America, with 17.5% produced through off-shore facilities. It has been predicted that by the end of 1988 that the North American share will drop to 45% and the Asian share, alone, will increase to 40.0%.