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Syntune announces the installation of an Advisory Board

 

Kista, Sweden (September 1, 2004) – Syntune today announces the installation of an Advisory Board, consisting of leading industry experts who will provide advice on technology and market trends to Syntune's management.

The Board will be chaired by Dr. Jens Buus, who is a co-founder of Syntune and the inventor of the laser design used in its widely tunable MG–Y laser. Dr. Buus has been involved in semiconductor laser R&D for over 25 years and has published extensively in this area, including three books. He regularly gives courses and invited papers at major conferences. In the period 1998-2000 he served as a IEEE LEOS Distinguished Lecturer.

Other members of the board are:

  • Professor Ian Bennion, Head of Electronic Engineering at Aston University, Birmingham, is an expert in fiber Bragg gratings and their applications in sensors. Before joining Aston in 1991, he spent 16 years in industrial R&D. In addition he has experience in setting up spin-off companies.
  • Dr. Magnus Breidne is since January 2004 the Science Counsellor at the Swedish Embassy in Beijing. Before that he was Vice President and Director of R&D at Acreo AB, Sweden's foremost research institute in micro-electronics and optics.
  • Dr. Jacek Chrostowski is currently President of OptiComp Corp. Previously, he was Vice President, Technology Strategy at EMCORE, manufacturer of compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems. From 1998 to 2003 he worked at Cisco Systems in a number of roles, including Technology Deputy, Optics in the Office of the CTO.
  • Professor Tom Koch is Head of the Center for Optical Technologies at Lehigh University. Prior to this he held Vice President positions at SDL, Lucent, and most recently at Agere Systems where he led the Technology Platforms organization. Tom is a recipient of the William Streifer Award for Scientific Achievement from the IEEE LEOS.
  • Dr. Torsten Wipiejewski is Vice President of Photonics at ASTRI, the Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company. Until early 2003 he was Director of Advanced Technology and Program Manager at Agility Communications and General Manager of the Optoelectronic Components Group of Infineon Fiber Optics.

In announcing the appointment of the board, Pierre-Jean Rigole, CEO of Syntune said: "Our new advisors bring a tremendous expertise and experience in a number of strategic areas for Syntune and the Syntune technology."

 

About Syntune

Syntune (www.syntune.com) supplies state-of-the-art widely tunable lasers for applications ranging from fiber-optic communications to sensor systems. In communications, Syntune's lasers enable universal DWDM transceivers with low power consumption in a small form factor. Such universal transceivers drastically reduce overhead costs for sparing and maintaining inventories, since only a single part has to be stored instead of a different one for each DWDM channel. Tunability also enables flexible networks, which allows operators to offer innovative services and reduces their operational expenditures.

In other applications like gas spectroscopy, fiber-optic sensor interrogation, and optical component test & measurement, Syntune's lasers allow spectral measurements to be made at rates unmatched by existing solutions.