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OIDA Photonics Manufacturing Workshop at OFC/NFOEC 2012

Opportunities and Trends in Optoelectronic Manufacturing

An OIDA Communications workshop

Held on Monday, 5 March 2012 (collocated with OFCNFOEC2012)—Los Angeles, California. All OIDA members and workshop attendees may view the presentation slides online and coming soon, videos of featured speakers. A summary of the workshop will be freely available to members and attendees in Q2/2012.   

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Program Description: The North American optoelectronics industry has undergone significant changes over the course of the last decade. The escalating end-user demand for bandwidth coupled with the attendant pricing pressures continues to pose significant challenges to the industry. To stay competitive, the industry has addressed this challenge by off-shoring optoelectronic component and board level packaging and assembly. Recently, the US Government has announced a string of initiatives in manufacturing to facilitate development of advanced manufacturing technologies as well as to provide impetus to growth of jobs.

The goal of this one day industry-centric workshop is to determine what manufacturing technologies and business incentives are needed to facilitate manufacturing, and to delineate topics of technology focus in optoelectronics that might be used to address government manufacturing initiatives.

The first part of the workshop will feature talks from experts in the industry (public & private companies), academia, and the financial community discussing their perspectives on optoelectronic manufacturing. This will be followed by presentations from leaders representing agencies such as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Photonics21 (European technology platform for photonics), National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Research Council of Canada discussing their initiatives/programs in optoelectronic manufacturing. There will be a panel session featuring the speakers following this.

The second part of the workshop will feature talks from industry and government experts delivering technology focused presentations of relevance to optoelectronic manufacturing. Topics to be covered range from advanced device design and fabrication technologies to advanced packaging and assembly technologies for next generation photonic devices.
 

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Featured speakers include:

Welcome and Introduction
	OIDA Ganesh Gopalakrishnan Executive Technical Director		Corning Richard Grzybowski Research Director, Systems Engineering & Program Management—OIDA's Chairman of the Board
Views on optoelectronic manufacturing from the industry, academia, & financial community
	Infinera Corporation David Welch  Co-Founder, Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy Office		Discovery Semiconductors Abhay Joshi President and CEO
	Corning Incorporated Waguih Ishak VP & Director, West Coast Research		The Juda Group Scott Juda Chief Executive Officer
	Carnegie Mellon University Erica Fuchs  Assistant Professor, Engineering and Public Policy
International government programs & initiatives in manufacturing
	DARPA Tom Lee Director, Microsystems Technology Office (MTO)		NIST Kent Rochford Chief, Quantum Electronics and Photonics Division, and Acting Director of NIST-Boulder Labs
	Photonics21 (EC) / Oclaro Michael Wale Director Active Products Research for Oclaro		National Research Council Canada Sylvain Charbonneau Executive Director
Advanced device design / fabrication & packaging technologies
	Aurrion Eric Hall Vice President of Business Development		Kotura Mehdi Asghari Chief Technology Officer
	DARPA Scott Rodgers Program Manager, Microsystems Technology Office (MTO)		National Research Council Canada Frank Shepherd Group Leader, CPFC
	Finisar Charles Roxlo Vice President of Active Devices		US Conec Darrell Childers Director of Development
	Infinera Fred Kish Sr. Vice President, Optical Integrated Components Group

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