In February 2007, Little Optics Inc was acquired by Infinera Corporation. Little Optics designs and develops integrated optical components that dramatically improve price and performance in communications, military, and sensing applications. Through Little Optics' proprietary VLSI Photonics(TM) platform and proprietary Hydex(TM) material system, the company is developing components that have one to two order of magnitude improvements in size, performance, functionality, and integration density