UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION
`WASHINGTON, D.C.
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`Before the Honorable David P. Shaw
`Administrative Law Judge
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`In the Matter of
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`CERTAIN HIGH-DENSITY
`FIBER OPTIC EQUIPMENT AND
`COMPONENTS THEREOF
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`Investigation No. 337-TA-1194
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`COMPLAINANT’S PRE-HEARING STATEMENT
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`Complainant Corning Optical Communications LLC (“Corning”) submits this pre-hearing
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`statement pursuant to Order No. 2 and Ground Rules 3 and 7. Corning has prepared separately, and
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`is filing concurrently, a pre-hearing brief that sets forth in detail the legal, factual, and equitable
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`bases for the arguments it will present at the hearing.
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`I.
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`HEARING WITNESSES
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`Pursuant to Ground Rule 7(a), Corning identifies the following known fact and expert
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`witnesses it expects to appear at the hearing. A brief outline of each witness’ proposed testimony
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`is included below. Copies of the curriculum vitae for Corning’s expert witnesses are attached as
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`Attachments A, B, and C. In addition, Corning reserves the right to call any witness that is
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`identified as a witness by Respondents in this Investigation. Corning will also rely on deposition
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`testimony, subject to designation before the hearing and any agreements reached by the parties.
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`Specifically, Corning intends to rely on the deposition testimony of all witnesses deposed in this
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`Investigation, including those identified in Corning’s pre-hearing brief filed concurrently. Corning
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`reserves the right to call any deposition witness live in the event that individual’s deposition
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`testimony is not admitted into the record.
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`A.
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`Dr. Paul Prucnal
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`Dr. Paul Prucnal is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. Dr.
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`Prucnal is an expert in the area of fiber optics and engineering. Corning will call Dr. Prucnal to
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`testify regarding his opinions about each of the Asserted Patents. Specifically, Dr. Prucnal will
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`testify about 1) Respondents’ infringement of each of the Asserted Patents, 2) the validity of each
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`of the Asserted Patents, 3) certain claim construction disputes relating to the Asserted Patents, and
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`4) objective indicia of nonobviousness relating to the Asserted Patents.
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`Dr. Prucnal’s curriculum vitae is attached as Attachment A.
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`B.
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`Dr. Stephen Ralph
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`Dr. Stephen Ralph is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Georgia Institute of
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`Technology. Dr. Ralph is an expert in the area of fiber optics and engineering. Corning will call
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`Dr. Ralph to testify regarding his opinions about each of the Asserted Patents. Specifically, Dr.
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`Ralph will testify about 1) Corning’s satisfaction of the technical prong of the domestic industry
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`requirement for each of the Asserted Patents, and 2) certain claim construction issues relating to
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`the Asserted Patents.
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`Dr. Ralph’s curriculum vitae is attached as Attachment B.
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`C. Mr. Todd Schoettelkotte
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`Mr. Todd Schoettelkotte is the President and Managing Director of IPFC Corp. Mr.
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`Schoettelkotte is an expert in the area of economics and the application of economics to intellectual
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`property, particularly with respect to the issues relevant to Section 337 investigations. Corning
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`will call Mr. Schoettelkotte to testify regarding his opinions about 1) Corning’s satisfaction of the
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`economic prong of the domestic industry requirement, 2) Corning’s request for a cease-and-desist
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`order, 3) Corning’s request for imposition of a bond, and 4) certain factors relating to Corning’s
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`request for a general exclusion order.
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`Mr. Schoettelkotte’s curriculum vitae is attached as Attachment C.
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`D. Mr. Warren Hicks
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`Mr. Warren Hicks is Global Director for Plug & Play Solutions in the Product Line
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`Management Group at Corning. Mr. Hicks will testify about 1) the state of the fiber optic
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`equipment market prior to the development of the domestic industry products, 2) the identification,
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`structure, function, and operation of the domestic industry products, 3) the market for the Accused
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`Products, 4) ongoing research and development relating to the domestic industry products, and 5)
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`Corning’s request for a general exclusion order.
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`E. Mr. Harley Staber
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`Mr. Harley Staber was a Technology Program Manager at Corning until his retirement in
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`2019. Mr. Staber will testify about 1) the research and development relating to the domestic
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`industry products, and 2) the structure, function, and operation of the domestic industry products.
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`F. Mr. Shane Clark
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`Mr. Shane Clark is a Senior Development Analyst III at Corning. Mr. Clark will testify
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`about Corning’s investments in labor and capital, and in research, development, and engineering,
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`relating to the domestic industry products.
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`G. Mr. Brian Rhoney
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`Mr. Brian Rhoney is Director for Data Center Market Development at Corning. Mr.
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`Rhoney will testify about 1) the state of the fiber optic equipment market prior to the development
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`of the domestic industry products, 2) the structure, function, and operation of the domestic industry
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`products, 3) the market for the Accused Products, and 4) ongoing research and development
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`relating to the domestic industry products.
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`H. Mr. Robert Dennis
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`Mr. Robert Dennis is Global Solutions Manager, Major Accounts, at Corning. From 2006
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`to 2013, Mr. Dennis was a Product Specialist for Corning’s Plug & Play unit and is a named
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`inventor on U.S. Patent No. 8,861,918, which Panduit and other Respondents have asserted as
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`prior art. Mr. Dennis will testify as a rebuttal witness regarding the Corning invention that led to
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`this patent.
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`I.
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`Third-Party Witnesses
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`Corning expects to rely on the testimony of several third-party companies through
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`deposition testimony. Corning will rely on the deposition testimony of Total Cable Solutions, Inc.
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`through the deposition transcript of Charles Hoskins. Corning will rely on the deposition
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`testimony of Anixter Inc. and Accu-Tech through the deposition transcript of Maayan Kaplan.
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`Corning will rely on the deposition testimony of Fiberoptic Distribution, LLC through the
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`deposition transcript of KC Purshotam. Corning will rely on the deposition testimony of Conexus
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`Technologies Inc. through the deposition transcript of Chris Shoop. Corning will rely on the
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`deposition testimony of Wei (Daniel) Xiang, who holds an executive position for a Chinese
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`company related to Respondent FS.com. These witnesses will testify regarding manufacturing,
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`distribution, and sales in the market for the Accused Products. Corning anticipates that the parties
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`can agree to admit this testimony without requiring these third parties to appear live at the hearing,
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`but reserves the right to call each witness if the parties do not come to agreement.
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`J.
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`Adverse Witnesses
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`Corning expects to call at least the following Respondent witnesses to testify about the
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`topics listed below.
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`Fact/Expert
`Witness
`1. Dr. Daniel Blumenthal Expert
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`2. Dr. Paul Min
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`Expert
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`3. Dr. Michael Lebby
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`Expert
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`4. Ms. Carla Mulhern
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`Expert
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`5. Mr. Gregory Kuffel
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`Fact
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`6. Mr. Frank Kim
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`Fact
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`7. Mr. Steven Polidan
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`Fact
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`8. Mr. Mark Vogel
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`Fact
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`9. Mr. Tony Nieves
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`Fact
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`10. Mr. Edouard Tabet
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`Fact
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`11. Mr. Tao Zhang
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`Fact
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`Subject of Testimony
`Corning will call Dr. Blumenthal to testify to the
`contents, bases, and scope of his opinions
`disclosed in his witness statements and expert
`reports.
`Corning will call Dr. Min to testify to the
`contents, bases, and scope of his opinions
`disclosed in his witness statement and expert
`reports.
`Corning will call Dr. Lebby to testify to the
`contents, bases, and scope of his opinions
`disclosed in his witness statement and expert
`report.
`Corning will call Dr. Mulhern to testify to the
`contents, bases, and scope of her opinions
`disclosed in her witness statement and expert
`report.
`Corning will call Mr. Kuffel to testify about
`Respondent Panduit’s development of the
`Accused Products and certain alleged Panduit
`prior art references.
`Corning will call Mr. Kim to testify about
`Respondent Leviton’s development of the
`Accused Products and certain alleged Leviton
`prior art references.
`Corning will call Mr. Polidan to testify about
`Respondent AFL’s development of the Accused
`Products and the market for Accused Products.
`Corning will call Mr. Vogel to testify about
`Respondent AFL’s development of the Accused
`Products.
`Corning will call Mr. Nieves to testify about
`Respondent AFL’s alleged prior art to the
`Asserted Patents.
`Corning will call Mr. Tabet to testify about
`Respondent Wirewerks’ development of the
`Accused Products.
`Corning will call Mr. Zhang to testify about
`Respondent FS.com’s distribution of the
`Accused Products.
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`Corning also intends to rely on the deposition testimony of additional Respondent
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`witnesses that have not submitted testimony, including Mr. Craig Byquist, Mr. Charlie Maynard,
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`Mr. Scott Nagel, Mr. Nicholas Saab, Mr. Anthony Veatch, and Mr. Jerry Wiltjer. Corning
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`anticipates the parties can agree to introduce these witness’ deposition designations (to the extent
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`not already admissible under Rule 210.28(h)), but reserves the right to call these witnesses live if
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`the parties do not reach agreement.
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`II.
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`EXHIBIT LIST
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`Pursuant to Ground Rule 7(b), Corning identifies the exhibits expected to be introduced at
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`the hearing as Attachment D. The joint exhibit list agreed upon by the parties is attached as
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`Attachment E.
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`III.
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`STATEMENT OF ISSUES TO BE CONSIDERED AT THE HEARING
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`Pursuant to Ground Rule 7(c), Corning provides a statement of the issues to be considered
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`at the hearing, along with citations to the relevant facts and controlling legal authorities, in its
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`concurrently filed pre-hearing brief. Pursuant to Ground Rule 3, the undersigned counsel certifies
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`that good faith efforts were undertaken to settle the remaining issues.
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`Date: September 29, 2020
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` /s/ John Thorne
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`John Thorne
`Mark C. Hansen
`Michael K. Kellogg
`Evan T. Leo
`Gregory G. Rapawy
`Andrew E. Goldsmith
`Jacob E. Hartman
`Julia L. Haines
`Matthew J. Wilkins
`Christopher C. Goodnow
`KELLOGG, HANSEN, TODD, FIGEL &
`FREDERICK, P.L.L.C.
`1615 M Street NW
`Suite 400
`Washington, DC 20036
`Tel: (202) 326-7900
`Email:
`CORNINGEDGE@lists.kellogghansen.com
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`Christine E. Lehman
`Connor S. Houghton
`REICHMAN JORGENSEN LLP
`818 Connecticut Avenue, NW
`Suite 850
`Washington, DC 20006
`Tel.: (202) 894-7310
`Email:
`CORNINGEDGE@lists.kellogghansen.com
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`Counsel for Complainant
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`Attachment A
`Attachment A
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`PAUL R. PRUCNAL
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`Personal Information:
`Address:
`Department of Electrical Engineering,
`Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544
`609-258-5549
`U.S.
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`Telephone:
`Citizenship:
`Education:
`Ph.D.
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`M.Phil.
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`M.S.
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`A.B.
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`Experience:
`1990-
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`1992
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`1991
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`1989-1991
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`1979 Columbia University
`1978 Columbia University
`1976 Columbia University, Electrical Engineering
`1974 Bowdoin College, summa cum laude
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`Princeton University, Professor
`Visiting Professor, University of Parma (Sabbatical)
`Visiting Professor, RCAST, University of Tokyo (Sabbatical)
`New Jersey Advanced Technology Center for Photonics and
`Optoelectronic Materials, Founding Director
`Princeton University, Associate Professor
`Columbia University, Associate Professor
`Columbia University, Assistant Professor
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`1988-1990
`1984-1988
`1979-1984
`Consulting:
`• Phillips Laboratories (1979-1981)
`• Optical Information Systems, Inc (1982)
`• GTE Labs (1983-1984)
`• AT&T Bell Laboratories (1985-1986)
`IBM (1987-1988)
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`• Dove Electronics (1987-1989)
`• Siemens Corporate Research (1992-1995)
`• Center for Computing Sciences (1996-Present)
`• Sun Microsystems (1998-2001)
`• SAIC (1999-2000)
`• Multi Link Technologies, Inc. (1999-2002)
`• Alphion, Inc. (2000-Present)
`• Ultra Fast Optical Systems (2000-2002)
`• Kailight Inc. (2003-2006)
`• NEC Laboratories (2004-2011)
`• Princeton Optronics (2005-2006)
`• Access Optical Networks (2010)
`• Bascom Hunter Technologies (2010-present)
`Current Research Activities (experimental and theoretical):
`Optical networks, photonic switching, optical signal processing, RF photonics,
`quantum optics, optical interconnects.
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`Honors:
`Invited Plenary Speaker
`• 9th International Conference on Computer Communications, Tel Aviv,
`October 1988
`• Topical Meeting on Photonic Switching, Salt Lake City, March 1989
`• Congreso de Informatica y Telecomunicaciones, Berisso, Argentina, April
`1989
`IEEE Communications Society Local Chapter Talks, 1989
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`IEEE International Conference on Communications, Atlanta, April 1990
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`• LEOS Annual Meeting, Boston, November 5, 1990
`IEEE Computer Communications Workshop, October 1992
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`IEEE Optical Fiber Communications Conference, February 1993
`• OSA Optical Computing Topical Meeting, March 1993
`IEEEOSA Topical Meeting on Photonic Switching, March 1993
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`IEEE LEOS Conference, November 1993
`• Rank Prize Symposium, April 1994
`• Workshop on Massively Parallel Processing using Optical Interconnects, April
`1994
`• Keynote Address, Viva a Ciencia, Symposium commemorating the 25th
`Anniversary of Submarine Cables in Portugal, October 1994
`IEEE Optical Fiber Communication Conference, February 1995
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`• European Fiber Optic Communication & Networking Conference, June 1995
`IEEE LEOS Conference, October 1995
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`IEEE LEOS Conference, October 1996
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`IEEE Computer Society, May 1996
`• ECOC, September 1997
`IEEE LEOS, November 1997
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`• Sarnoff Symposium, March, 1998
`• Rank Prize Symposium, April 1998
`• ECOC, September 1998
`• XIth Slovak/Czech/Polish Optical Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects
`of Contemporary Optics, September 1998
`• American Physical Society Annual Meeting, invited tutorial, March 2000
`• American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, March 2000
`• CLEO/PR-2001, Makahuri Messe, Chiba, Japan, June 2001
`• OSA Topical Meeting-Integrated Photonics Research, Vancouver, Canada,
`July 2002
`• WOCC 2002, Newark, NJ, April 2002
`• Photonics Prague 2002, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2002
`• Europe-U.S.-Japan Symposium on Ultrafast Photonic Technology, Chiba,
`Japan, July 2003
`• ECS’03 Bratislava, Slovakia, September 2003
`IEEE Photonics in Switching Topical Meeting, Versailles France, September,
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`2003
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`“From Smoke Signals to All-Optical Communications,” Given at University of
`Žilina, Žilina, Slovakia, October 24, 2005
`”RF Photonics,” DSA, Holmdel, NJ, February 22, 2005
`“Reconfigurable universal transceivers,” U.S. Army Communications
`Electronics Command, Fort Monmouth, NJ, March 11, 2005
`“All-optical signal processing; “Progress and applications,” Distinguished
`speaker seminar series, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, April 15, 2005
`“Reconfigurable, asynchronous, incoherent optical CDMA networks, “ O-
`CDMA PI Review, Key West, FL, May 2, 2005
`“All-optical signal processing; Progress and applications,” Center for
`Communications Research, Princeton, NJ, May 18, 2005
`• Plenary Lecture, “All-optical signal processing: Progress and applications,”
`Ninth Canadian Workshop on Information Theory, McGill University, Montreal,
`June 6, 2005
`“Flexible access techniques for fiber-to-the-home,” O-CDMA systems
`Workshop, Key West, FL, May 3-4, 2005
`“Advanced technology for next-generation networks,” NJ Legislative Caucus
`on Science and Technology: Shaping New Jersey’s Telecommunication
`Future, Princeton, May 20, 2005
`“All-optical signal processing: Progress and applications,” Center for
`Computing Sciences, Bowie, MD, June 30, 2005.
`“Advanced optical signal processing techniques for communications and
`computing,” NEC, Tamagawa Labs, Tokyo, August 24, 2005
`“All-optical signal processing: Challenges and applications,” Tokyo University,
`August 25, 2005
`“All-optical signal processing: Challenges and applications,” Chinese
`University of Hong Kong, August 26, 2005
`“All-optical signal processing: Challenges and applications,” Tsinghua
`University, Beijing, August 31, 2005
`“All-optical signal processing: Challenges and applications,” The Cooper
`Union, New York City, December 13, 2005
`• Keynote Speaker at PRISM/NJCST Summit, May 20, 2005
`“Design of an avionics platform for Lockheed-Martin based on incoherent
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`optical CDMA,” Sarnoff Symposium, Princeton, NJ, March 27-28, 2006
`“How optics has changed data communications,” 15th Czech-Slovak-Polish
`Optical Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics.
`Liberec, Czech Republic, September 11-15, 2006
`“The roll of optics in optical communications,” 15th Czech-Slovak-Polish
`Optical Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics.
`Liberec, Czech Republic, September 11-15, 2006
` “OCDMA-an alternative for optical communications?” Optical
`Communications, OK 2005, Prague, Czech Republic, September 20-21, 2005
`“Is optical CDMA viable technique for broadband networks?,” Photonics
`Prague 2005, Prague, Czech Republic, June 8-11, 2005
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`“Reconfigurable asynchronous incoherent OCDMA”, PI annual meeting,
`Chicago, IL August 2006
`• Workshop on Optical and Wireless Communications Technologies &
`“Princeton testbed for optical and wireless communications”, PRISM –
`University-Industry Research Symposium, Princeton University, February 3,
`2006
`• Seminar of “Effective Teaching Methods”, McGraw Center, Princeton
`University, March 15, 2006
`“All-Optical Signal Processing: Challenges and Applications”, Universita
`Komenskeho, Bratislava, May 31, 2006
`• All-Optical Signal Processing: Technologies for network Applications,
`Polytechnic University, New York, NY, November 30, 2006
`• All-Optical Signal Processing: Technologies for network Applications,
`Globecom Access ’06 Business Forum, San Francisco, November 29, 2006
`• Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, 5th Workshop on Optimization of
`Optical Networks, May 8, 2008
`• Princeton, NJ Workshop on Modeling and Analysis of Computer and
`Communication Networks, May 9, 2008
`• Santa Fe, NM 2008 Workshop on Interconnections within High Speed Digital
`Systems. May 18-21, 2008
`• Lockheed Martin, Cherry Hill, NJ Seminar presentation and research
`presentation. July 11, 2008
`• St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands ICCCN 2008 August 3, 2008
`• Baltimore, MD MIRTHE Summer Workshop, August 5, 2008
`• College Park, MD Research seminar at Laboratory for Physical Sciences.
`October 1, 2008
`“Truly-Asynchronous, Scalable and Survivable Optical CDMA Networks with
`Heterogeneous QoS,” at the 2009 IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society
`Summer Topical Meeting (LEOS), Newport Beach, CA, USA, July 20-22,
`2009
`“Physical layer network security based on optical processing using compact
`passive devices,” OECC 2009, Hong Kong, July 2009.
`Invited panel member, “Quality of Service Performance and Switching
`Implementation in Optical Networks,” at AH-ICI2009, November 2009.
`“Undergraduate Studies and Research in Electrical Engineering at Princeton,”
`at The Lincoln School, Kathmandu, Nepal, November 2009.
`“Physical Layer Security in Data Networks using Optical Signal Processing,”
`2009 ACP, Shanghai, China, November 2009.
`"Photonic Neurons for Terahertz Pulse Processing," 9th International
`Conference on Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN 2010),
`Nanjing, China, October 24-27, 2010.
`“Ultrafast optical processing and information security,” L3 Communications
`Telemetry East, Bristol, PA, February 23, 2011.
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`“Ultrafast optical processing and information security,” IEEE World Wide
`Security and Mobility Conference (WWSMC 2011), Princeton, NJ, July 27,
`2011.
`“Fiber optic networks technology tutorial,” Center for Communication
`Research, La Jolla, CA, August 9, 2011.
`“Lightwave neuromorphic signal processing,” University of Delaware, Newark,
`DE, October 25, 2011.
`• School of Engineering and Applied Science, Leadership Council Speaker,
`April 5, 2012.
`“Using technology to protect our information infrastructure,” The Lotus Club,
`April 27, 2012.
`"Photonic Neuromorphic Signal Processing and Computing," 2012
`International Workshop on Information Physics and Computing in Nano-scale
`Photonics and Materials (IPCN), Orleans, France, September 7, 2012
`“Photonic neuromorphic spike processor for ultrafast and low energy cognitive
`computing,” Bell Labs/Alcatel-Lucent Green ICT Summit, Murray Hill, NJ,
`USA, January 2013
`“Photonic neuromorphic spike processing for ultrafast cognitive
`computing,” IEEE North Jersey Section Computer Chapter and Signal
`Processing Chapter, Teaneck, NJ, USA, September 2013
`“Integrated photonic spike processing,” Sandia Labs Beyond Moore Device
`Physics Workshop, Albuquerque, NM, USA, January 2014
`“Photonic spike processing,” Neuro-Inspired Computational Elements
`Workshop, Albuquerque, NM, USA, February 2014
`“Lightwave neuromorphic processing,” AFCEA C4I Technology Review Days,
`Utica, NY, USA, June 2014
`• European Conference Optical Communication (ECOC), Rome, Italy,
`September, 2018
`Professional Societies:
`• Rudolf Kingslake Medal and Prize, SPIE, for the most noteworthy original
`paper in Optical Engineering, 1990
`• Fellow of the IEEE (January, 1992)
`• Fellow of the OSA (February, 1997)
` Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (December, 2017)
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`Academic Societies and Awards:
`• Phi Beta Kappa (Alpha of Maine Chapter, 1973)
`• Citation for Outstanding Achievement, School of Engineering and Applied
`Science, Columbia University 1976)
`• Eta Kappa Nu (Gamma Lambda Chapter, 1978)
`• Sigma Xi (Kappa Chapter, 1979)
`• Gold Medal Award from the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics
`at the Comenius University, for leadership in the field of Optics 2006
`• Princeton University Graduate Mentoring Award 2006
`• E-Council Excellence in Teaching for ELE 203 Fall 2006
`• E-Council Excellence in Teaching for ELE 454 Spring 2008
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`• Walter Curtis Johnson Prize for Teaching Excellence June 2009
`• School of Engineering and Applied Science Distinguished Teacher Award,
`June 1, 2009
`• Awards for undergraduate research in my lab:
`o Bryan Bosworth ’09 received the Peter Mark Prize from the EE
`Department at Class Day, June 2009, for the “best undergraduate
`research" in the area of electronic materials and devices.
`o John Chang ‘10, J. Rich Steers Award from the New York City Post of
`the Society of American Military Engineers, December 2009
`• Honored by Shirley Tilghman at the event “Celebrate Princeton Invention”
`• CNSA selected by the National Security Agency as a “Center of Excellence in
`Research in Information Assurance.” The award was presented in June at
`the NSA by Howard Schmidt, Obama’s Cybersecurity Coordinator. This honor
`has just been highlighted in the news on the Princeton University webpage.
`http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S29/01/99S63/index.xml?section
`=topstories
`• Awards for research in my lab:
`o John Chang, Graduate advisee, J. Rich Steers Award, February 5,
`2010
`o Bhavin Shastri, PostDoc, IEEE Photonics Society 2011 Fellowship
`o Vinayak Venkataraman ’11, recipient of 2011 John Ogden Bigelow Jr.
`Prize in Electrical Engineering
`o Mary Catherine Wen ’11, recipient of 2011 Newport Research
`Undergraduate Award for Excellence in Photonics
`“Princeton named cyber security hub by National Security Agency,” News at
`Princeton, November 22, 2010 and SEAS website, December 6, 2010
`“Fiber-optic photonic neurons to be developer in collaboration between
`Princeton University and Lockheed Martin,” Laser Focus World Magazine,
`July 20, 2011
`“Photonic neuron may compute a billion times faster than brain circuits,”
`Princeton University website, News at Princeton, July 18, 2011
`“For students, blazing fast lab work,” Princeton Alumni Weekly Magazine,
`September 14, 2011, Vol. 112, No. 1
`• 2012 Honoree, The Lotos Club, New York City
`• Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching, awarded by the
`Princeton Engineering Council 2015
`• The President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching 2015
`• Featured on November 18, 2016 in the MIT Technology Review, in an article
`titled “Silicon photonic neural network unveiled.”
`Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1611.02272: Neuromorphic Silicon Photonics
`• Awards for research in my lab:
`o Lamia Ateshian: 2018 Optical Engineering Award, Princeton
`o Alexander Tait: 2017 IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student
`Fellowship
`o Matthew Chang: 2016 CLEO pitch panel winner
`o Alexander Tait: 2016 SEAS award for excellence
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`o Alexander Tait: 2016 IEEE Summer Topical Meeting Series Best
`Student Poster Award (first place).
`o Mitchell Nahmias: 2015 IEEE Summer Topical Meeting Series Best
`Student Poster Award (first place).
`• National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellow, December 2017.
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`Patent Number
`US 4,744,623
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`US 4,791,407
`US 4,887,879
`US 5,060,305
`US 5,073,980
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`US 5,493,433
`US 5,825,519
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`Issue Date
`05/17/1988
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`10/22/1991
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`02/20/1996
`10/20/1998
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`US 5,828,474
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`10/27/1998
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`US 5,841,560
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`11/24/1998
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`US 5,917,979
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`06/29/1999
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`US 6,265,999
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`07/24/2001
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`US 6,433,715 B2
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`08/13/2002
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`US 6,448,913
`US 6,535,662
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`09/10/2002
`03/18/2003
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`US 7,035,550
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`04/25/2006
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`US 7,068,894
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`06/27/2006
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`US 8,315,489
`US 8,456,730
`Israel 173226
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`11/20/2012
`06/04/2013
`03/01/2014
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`US 8,682,170
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`03/25/2014
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`US 8,693,810
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`04/08/2014
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`US 8,749,874
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`06/10/2014
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`Title
`Integrated fiber optic coupler for VHSIC/VLSI
`interconnects
`Alternate mark/space inversion line code
`Fiber optic tap
`Self clocked, self routed photonic switch
`Photonic Switch employing Shared data
`Transmission Facility
`Terahertz Optical Asymmetric Demultiplexer
`Optical Mach-Zehnder Time Division
`Demultiplexer
`Optical Apparatus for Transmitting Data of an
`Electrical Signal
`System for Optical Pulse Train Compression and
`Packet Generation
`Asymmetric Optical Loop Mirror Exhibiting
`Threshold Discrimination for Separation of Input
`Pulses of Differing Magnitudes
`High Speed Serial-to-Parallel Analog-to-Digital
`Conversation
`High-Speed Serial-To-Parallel and Analog-to
`Digital Conversion
`Toad Based Optical Data Format Converter
`TOAD Having Enhanced Extinction Ratio of the
`Switching Window
`All Optical 3R Regeneration using the Sagnac
`and Mach-Zehnder Versions of the Terahertz
`Optical Asymmetric Interferometer (TOAD)
`An All-Optical Wavelength Converter Based on
`Sagnac Interferometer with an SOA at
`Asymmetric Position
`Optical Sensor Array (AON)
`Directly modulated spatial light modulator (AON)
`All-Optical Wavelength Converter based on
`Sagnac Interferometer with an SOA at
`Asymmetric Position
`System and Method for Broadband RF
`Interference Cancellation
`Optical Counter-Phase System and Method of RF
`Intererence Cancellation
`Optical Integration System and Method
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`US 8,917,960 B2
`US 9,344,125
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`US 9,444,502
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`12/23/2014
`05/17/2016
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`09/13/2016
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`US 9,571,205
`US 9,838,125 B2
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`02/14/2017
`12/05/2017
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`US 10,009,135
`Filed
`US 62/664,386
`Filed
`US 62/663,057
`Filed
`US 62/647,393
`Filed
`US 62/669,097
`Filed
`US 62/667,058
`Filed
`US 62/719,516
`Filed
`US 62/690,393
`Filed
`US 62/690,425
`Provisional
`62/844,435
`Provisional
`62/869,096
`Provisional
`62/690,425
`Provisional
`62/664,386
`Provisional
`62/663,057
`Provisional
`62/647,393
`Provisional
`62/669,097
`No.
`2019/0331912 A1,
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`Optical Switch Using a Michelson Interferometer
`Remote Interference Cancelation for
`Communications Systems (Bascom Hunter)
`Interference Cancellation System for Cancelling
`Interference in the Optical Domain (Bascom
`Hunter)
`Systems Approach to Interference Cancellation
`Multibeam Radio Frequency Photonic
`Beamformer Using a Multi-Signal Slow Light Time
`Delay Unit
`System and Method for Photonic Processing
`Design of High Channel Count Two-Pole
`Photonic Microring Weight Banks
`Excitable Laser Processor in a III-V Photonic
`Integrated Circuit Platform
`Photonic Tensor Machine
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`Photonic Circuit Total Laboratory Automation,
`Data Management and Virtualization
`Method for Linear Analog Photonic Processing
`Using Mode Filters
`Feedback Control for Microring Weight Banks
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`06/26/2018
`4/30/2018
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`4/26/2018
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`3/23/2018
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`5/9/2018
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`5/4/2018
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`8/17/2018
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`6/27/2018
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`Optically Accelerated FPGA
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`6/27/2018
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`4/4/2019
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`Nonlinear Remodulation Unit with Electronic
`Amplification
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`System and method for mode-based photonic
`processing.
`Optically accelerated FPGA and method of use.
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`Nonlinear remodulation unit with electronic
`amplification.
`Design of high channel count two-pole photonic
`microring weight banks.
`Excitable laser processor in a III-V photonic
`integrated circuit platform.
`Photonic tensor machine.
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`Photonic circuit total laboratory automation, data
`management and virtualization.
`Photonic filter bank system and method of use.
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`Patents: Invention Disclosures:
`"Asymmetric Twin-Waveguide Structure for Monolithic Photonic Integration",
`invention disclosure # 98-1468-1, November 1997
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`Professional Activities:
`Associate Editor:
`IEEE Transaction on Communications, Area Editor, 1996 – present
`•
`• Proceedings of the IEEE, Review Editor, 1982-1985
`IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine, 1988-1991
`•
`•
`IEEE Transactions on Communications, 1988-1996
`•
`IEEE Lightwave Communications Magazine, 1989-1991
`• Applied Optics, 1989-1994
`IEEE Networks Magazine, Special Issue on “Optical Multi-access
`•
`Networks,” 3, No. 2, March 1989 (Guest editor)
`• Photonics Technology Letters, 1990-1991
`• Photonic Network Communications, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Nowell,
`MA (Prof. Harmen R. van As, Vienna University of Technology, Editor),
`Editorial Advisory Board, 1996-
`• Optical Fiber Technology, (Dr. Emmanuel Desurvire, Alcatel, Editor),
`Editorial Advisory Board, 1998-
`• Journal of Lightwave Technology, Special Issue on "Photonic Packet
`Switching Technologies, Techniques and Systems", vol. 16, no. 12,
`December 1998, Guest Editor
`IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Primary Guest
`Editor, 2018
`Program Committees:
`IEEE/OSA Conference on Optical Fiber Communication, 1988
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`IEEE/OSA Topical Meeting on Photonic Switching, 1989
`•
`IEEE/OSA Conference on Lasers and Electro-optics, Subcommittee on
`Lightwave Communications, 1989
`IEEE/OSA Conference on Lasers and Electro-optics, Subcommittee on
`Optical Switching, Logic and Storage Systems, 1991
`IEEE/OSA Topical Meeting on Photonic Switching, 1991
`•
`IEEE Princeton Section, Sarnoff Symposium, 1991
`•
`• OSA Regional Engineering Workshop, October 1991
`IEEE/OSA Topical Meeting on Optical Computing, 1993
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`IEEE/OSA Topical Meeting on Photonics in Switching, 1993
`• SPIE Conference on Multigigabit fiber communication systems, 1993
`IEEE (Princeton Section) Sarnoff Symposium, 1994
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`IEEE/OSA Topical Meeting on Integrated Photonics Research, 1994
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`IEEE Workshop on Massively Parallel Processing using Optical
`Interconnections, 1994
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`• ECOC'94, Photonics in Switching Joint Sessions, 1994
`• ECOC'94, Florence, Italy, September 1994
`IEEE/OSA Integrated Photonics Research Topical Meeting, 1994
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`IEEE/OSA MPPOI, 1995
`•
`IEEE Princeton Central NJ Sarnoff Symposium, 1995
`•
`IEEE/OSA Conference on Lasers and Electro optics, Subcommittee on
`Optical Switching, Logic and Storage Systems, 1995
`IEEE/OSA Topical Meeting on Photonic Switching, 1995
`IEEE/OSA Conference on Lasers and Electro optics, Subcommittee on
`Optical Switching, Logic and Storage Systems, 1996
`IEEE/OSA MPPOI, 1996
`IEEE/OSA MPPOI, 1998
`IEEE/OSA Conference on Optical Fiber Communication, 2000
`International Program Committee, IASTED international Conference on
`Communication, Internet and Information Technology, St. Thomas, USVI
`November 2006
`• Organizer of upcoming PRISM/Complex Materials Center Workshop on
`“Optical and Wireless Communications”
`• Optical Fiber Communications 2009
`• 2010 IEEE Optical Fiber Communication and National Fiber Optic
`Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC), San Diego, CA, USA, March 21-
`25, 2010.
`• Summer Topical Meeting on Terabit Optical Ethernet, Hilton Montreal
`Bonaventure, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 18-20 July 2011.
`• Second Asian Himalayan