WaveSplitter Announces New Board Member
Distinguished Industry Academic David Miller Joins WaveSplitter
Corporation Board
FREMONT, CA - February 12, 2001 -WaveSplitter Technologies,
Inc., a worldwide supplier of fiber-optic components for optical
amplifier and DWDM systems, today announced the appointment of Dr.
David Miller to their Board of Directors. Dr. Miller brings over
twenty years of academic and research experience in the optics industry
to complement the industrial background of current board members.
"Dr. Miller's strong ties to the academic and research community
will be a valuable asset to our board," said Bill Diamond,
CEO and President of WaveSplitter Technologies. "David will
be instrumental in helping us partner more closely with the academic
community and increase our visibility of new technology and research
applications." Currently, Dr. Miller is the W. M. Keck Foundation
Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, and
is Director of the E. L. Ginzton Laboratory and of the Solid State
and Photonics Laboratory at Stanford. Prior to that, he was the
Department Head of the Advanced Photonics Research department at
AT&T Bell Laboratories.
His accomplished career also includes publishing over 200 technical
papers, delivering over 80 conference invited talks and over 30
short courses, and holding 44 patents. Dr. Miller is a Fellow of
the Royal Society of London, the IEEE, the Optical Society of America
and the American Physical Society and is currently an Elected Member
of the Board of Directors of the OSA. He received his Ph.D. in Physics
from Heriot-Watt University where he was a Carnegie Research Scholar.
"This is a time of rapid technical innovations in photonics,"
said Dr. David Miller, Director of the E.L. Ginzton Laboratory and
of the Solid State and Photonics Laboratory at Stanford University.
The relationship between universities and industry has never been
more important than it is today, connecting companies to the broader
research community and to the next wave of new ideas and trained
personnel. I'm very excited to work with WaveSplitter as it builds
its technology portfolio in this exciting field."
In addition to Dr. Miller, the WaveSplitter Board of Directors
includes Sheau Sheng Chen, Ph.D., WaveSplitter founder and Chairman;
Bill Diamond, President and CEO of WaveSplitter; David Ladd, General
Partner of the venture capital firm Mayfield Funds; Charles Lau,
Managing Director of China Development Industrial Banks' U.S. Venture
Capital Operations; and Henry Nothhaft, Vice Chairman of XO Communications.
About WaveSplitter Technologies, Inc.
WaveSplitter Technologies, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets reliable, highly scalable, cost-effective components for optical amplifier and DWDM systems for both long-haul and metropolitan area network applications. WaveSplitter's high-performance fiber and planar lightwave circuit components increase network bandwidth capabilities and offer a unique combination of low signal loss and modular expandability at an economical value. WaveSplitter was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Fremont, California. WaveSplitter is a trademark of WaveSplitter Technologies, Inc. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.
For more information, reporters can contact:
Lisa Blair
WaveSplitter Technologies, Inc.
Phone: 510-651-7800 x 243
Fax: 510-580-1395
E-mail: lisa_blair@wavesplitter.com
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