Jack Jewell sparked widespread industrial development of the Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL), by demonstrating over 1 million VCSELs on a single chip at Bell Laboratories in 1989. Building on this achievement, in 1991 Jack co-founded Vixel Corp, the first company committed to VCSEL commercialization. In 1995 Jack left […]
Advice from Entrepreneurs
Tom Baur is the founder of Meadowlark Optics, Inc., a company founded in 1979 that designs, manufactures and sells precision optics for polarization control. He is also the founder of Team Baur, a company that is developing a 75-acre business park in Frederick, Colorado. Prior to founding these companies Tom […]
Tom Baur, Founder of Meadowlark Optics
Ashok Balakrishnan is the Director of Product Development at Enablence Technologies in Kanata, Ontario. Ashok was a co-founder of Enablence Inc., and is a co-inventor on the key patents that define Enablence’s proprietary technology. He has extensive product development and commercialization expertise spanning several markets, including spectroscopy, telecommunications, and biophotonics. […]
Ashok Balakrishnan, Director of Product Development at Enablence Technologies
Peter S. Fiske is the CEO of PAX Water Technologies, Inc. in San Rafael, California. A native of Bethesda, Maryland, Peter has an A.B. from Princeton University, a Ph.D. in Geological and Environmental Sciences from Stanford University, and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. […]
Peter Fiske, CEO at PAX Water Technologies
Ashok Balakrishnan is the Director of Product Development at Enablence Technologies in Ottawa and is a contributor to the Turning Science in to Things People Need project. Ashok has an article titled Planar Lightwave Circuits Enable Next-Generation 40G/100G Networks published in the March edition of Photonics Spectra. Check it out […]
Ashok Balakrishnan, Scientist at Enablence Technologies
Chris Myatt is the CEO of Precision Photonics Corporation in Boulder, CO, a company he founded with his wife Sally Hatcher in 2000. Precision Photonics Corp. develops precision optical components, coatings and assemblies for the telecommunications, aerospace and defense, biomedical, and semiconductor industries. He also guided the incubation of mBio […]
Chris Myatt, Founder and CEO of Precision Photonics Corp.
This week I interviewed Peter Fiske, Chief Technology Officer at PAX Water Technologies, Inc. in San Rafael, CA. Peter has a Ph.D. in Geological and Environmental Sciences from Stanford University and has made a career working in industry. I first met Peter in 2006 when he was VP of Business […]
