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Photonics Society of Chinese-Americans
Issue
0046: April 1, 2002
Editors: Chun-Ching Shih and Su-Miau
Shih
Contact:
Tel (310) 814-0318; Fax (310) 812-4975; cc.shih@trw.com
Published
on Websites: www.psc-a.org
& www.psc-sc.org
& www.psc-eoa.org
Content
2002 PSC Officers
Chun-Ching Shih
Page
2
2002 PSC-SC Officers
Owen Wu
Page 3
Presidents Message
Gordon Li
Page 4
PSC-SC May Dinner Meeting
Raymond Wang
Page 5-7
PSC-EOA March Seminar
Yalan Mao
Page 8
PSC-EOA April Seminar
Yalan Mao
Page 9
PSC-EOA May Seminar
Yalan Mao
Page 10
PSC Annual Meeting Report
Raymond Wang
Page
11
PSC Annual Meeting Program
Raymond Wang
Page
12-13
PSC Annual Meeting Abstracts
Raymond Wang
Page
14-27
2002 PSC Officers:
Board
of Directors
Dr. Raymond Wang, Chair (714) 730-6256
raymondwang8@compuserve.com
Dr. Y.J. Ray Chen
(410) 455-3507
ychen@umbc.edu
Dr. Bob Lin
(415) 857-7218
bobwood43@aol.com
President
Dr. Gordon Li
(408) 530-1978
gordonli98@yahoo.com
First
Vice President
Dr. Haifeng Li
hli@tycomltd.com
Second
Vice President
Dr. Owen Wu
(310) 530 5890x705
okwu@gcsincorp.com
Executive
Secretary
Dr.
Larry Fong
(408) 284-5149
lfong_eoa@hotmail.com
Treasurer
Dr. Yan Yin
(510) 580-8819
yanyin@yylabs.com
Corresponding Secretary Rose Xu
(408) 546-5204
rose.xu@us.jdsuniphase.com
Recording Secretary
Dr. Nelson
Shen
(408) 284-8053
nelsonshen@hotmail.com
Special Committees:
Fellowship
Committee
Dr. Pochi Yeh
(805)
893-3981
pochi@ece.ucsb.edu
Scholarship
Committee Dr.
Chun-Ching Shih (310) 814-0318 cc.shih@trw.com
Newsletter
Committee
Dr. Chun-Ching Shih (310) 814-0318
cc.shih@trw.com
Dr. Su-Miau Wu Shih
Fund
Raising Committee Dr.
Ren-Sue Wong
(408) 739-4861
rsw2311@attbi.com
Local Chapter Contacts:
Northern
California
Dr.
Larry Fong
(408) 284-5149
lfong_eoa@hotmail.com
Southern
California
Dr.
Owen Wu
(310) 530-5890x705
okwu@gcsincorp.com
Atlantic
Chapter
Dr. Haifeng Li
hli@tycomltd.com
Taiwan
Chapter
Ms. Pamela Hsiao
pamela@mail.pida.org.tw
2002 PSC Southern
California Chapter Officers
President
Owen Wu
(310) 517-8288
okwu@gcsincorp.com
Fist
Vice President
Chi Wu
(626) 817-6210
chi-wu@lightcross.com
Second
Vice President
Sam Wang
(310) 530-7274 x713
scwang@gcsincorp.com
Treasurer
Bill Waung
bwaung@sguards.com
Secretary
Janice Shen
(818) 354-4620
janice.shen@jpl.nasa.gov
Special Committees
Promotion
& Membership Alice Young
Fund
Raising
Eric Wu
Conference
Organization Tain-Ren Ming
Presidents Message
Dear PSC members:
The Photonics Society of Chinese-Americans
(PSC) has set a solid basis for its role in supporting the rapid growth of photonics and
liquid crystal display technologies. These
two high-flying industrial sectors in last twenty years are influencing both our quality
of lives as well as being an economic stimulus for the twenty- first century. Through
decades of hard works of its founding members, all former presidents, board directors, and
our royal members, PSC has increasingly gained visibility in North America and several
Asian countries and economic regions. This year, it is my great honor to serve the
president role and have the opportunity to work with PSC staff and members. My inspiration
of the year is to maintain PSCs momentum and further expand its influence to all
over the world.
As
fiberoptics enabled the optical networking technology area, photonics has a wider enabling
influence and opportunities on the development of new technical areas. In addition to
passive devices, components and subsystems, photonics is also involving in the active
components and subsystems as well as the burgeoning nano-technologies. For instance, in
the field of modern quantum wave devices where fabricated semiconductor devices will be
able to act and function on integrated circuits and exhibit unique performances through
its photonically produced tiny dimensions. This is one but obvious example of the
continuing significant role photonics plays in the development of new initiatives in which
miniaturized, low cost devices will enhance our ability to access information upon which
to make decisions and take actions.
In order
to broaden the participation and communication with the global information technology
community, PSC is establishing a relationship with Monte Jade by posting each others
seminars and events. We will expand our ring of collaboration with other neighboring
associations this year. PSC has held annual conferences every year consecutively for the
last 15 years. The information of these conferences has been archived. Besides, each local
chapter holds either monthly seminar or bimonthly event as an important on-going activity
to enhance the learning, networking, and employment opportunities for our members. Our web
sites will be continuously updated and improved to the state-of-the-art status with more
informative contents and easy linkage to every local chapter. We will keep developing new
members, new corporate sponsors and encourage them actively supporting and participating
in PSC local and annual events. PSC will continue its role of bridging between different
countries and economic regions through coordination of job fair, trade show, and business
seminars.
Given the
fact that the Internet usage is growing, there is no question that the future of photonics
is bright. The PSC president role will be stimulating and rewarding and I appreciate the
opportunity affords me to contribute. I urge you become more involved, and enjoy PSC
activities.
Gordon Li
May 13, 2002
PSC President
PSC-SC
Dinner Meeting (Please see page What is New)
Raymond Wang
EOA March Seminar Announcement
Yalan Mao
Title: New developments in optical amplifiers
Speaker: Shou-Jong Sheih, IOA Corporation
Time: 10:00 am, Saturday, 3/9/02
Place: Stanford University CIS Building (Center
for Integrated Systems), Room 101 (Cypress auditorium)
Fee: Member free, $10 for non-member
Abstract:
In this presentation, we will review the optical amplifiers development and discuss new
trends in amplifier technologies. Focus will be given to EDFA and Raman OA.
New advances in related component innovations will also be discussed.
Speaker Biography:
Shou-Jong Sheih, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer/Founder, IOA Corporation. Dr. Sheih is a pioneer in the design and
development of high-power wide-band optical amplifiers for both long haul and metro
applications. Prior to founding IOA Corporation, Dr. Sheih served as Principal
Engineer at ONI Systems where he led the next-generation optical amplifier design efforts.
As a key member of the Advanced WDM (AWDM) group at Lucent Technologies, he created
the WaveStar 800G L-band EDFA. As a project lead at Corning, he was
responsible for the first commercial wide-band WaveStar-class EDFA. Dr. Sheih holds
a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
EOA April Seminar Announcement
Yalan Mao
Title: Optoelectronic
Packaging Explorations into the Low-Cost/High-performance Zone
Date: April 13,
2002
Speaker: Stanford Crane,
CTO, Silicon Bandwidth
Biography: Stanford
has been awarded more than 100 patents in the fields of semiconductor technology,
interconnect technology, advanced systems architecture, robotics, printed circuit board
technology and substrate technology. He is widely regarded as a fiber-optics industry
pioneer, and is the co-author of a number of scientific papers concerned with issues of
electrical performance in advanced interconnect designs. Stanford has been a leader in
producing bandwidth-enhancing technologies at break-through price points. Stanfords designs for high I/O connectors,
among them the Compass and its related pluggable technologies, the CGA and WGA, have
set new standards within the industry for both performance and cost. He has won numerous
achievement awards from groups as diverse as The International Design Yearbook, ID
Magazine, Comdex, CeBit and PC Expo. Several of his product designs have been exhibited in
museums here and abroad for the melding of art and technology.
A Virginia Military Institute EE, his 25-year-plus career includes
senior posts at both AMP, Inc. and Molex, and has worked on strategic product development
with customers, including: Xerox, HP, AT&T, Raytheon, Lockheed-Martin and General
Motors. Stanford has founded three companies and developed numerous defense- related
products and technologies. He has personally designed and licensed products to 3M, Litton
and LG.
Stanford leads a multidisciplinary team of engineers, scientists and
designers at SBI who are focused on the most critical performance and cost related needs
in todays technology space.
Abstract:
Are We All Insane? Optoelectronic
Packaging Explorations into the Low-Cost/High-performance Zone
The optical industry depends upon innovation to drive the next
generation of systems for two reasons: they need to operate at increased performance, but
more importantly they must do so at radically lower prices. Additionally, the support
infrastructures (i.e., the electronics systems) are also under significant pressure to
innovate. The goals are very ambitious to the optoelectronics industry. Technical change
is often slow, while expectations accelerate every day. Has everyone gone insane? Insanity
is continuing the same old thing and expecting different results. We shall explore the modern versions of the 14-pin
butterfly, TO can and Mini DIL component products, electrical subsystems, our Asian
partners and finally standards which may have to change in order to achieve the stated
goals.
EOA May Seminar Announcement
Yalan Mao
Title: Korean
Photonics Industry
Date: 10:00
am, Saturday, 05/11/02
Speaker: Chuck Kim, President
of Opendream
Place: Stanford University
CIS Building (Center for Integrated Systems), Room 101 (Cypress auditorium)
Fee: Member free,
$10 for non-member
Abstract:
We
will briefly review Korean Photonics History and describe on
the Business Interface of Government vs Optic companies. The role
of Opendream in Korean Photonics Industry will be stated, with its consortium
mission and profile. We will also present on Korean Photonics projection at phase 2
up to 2007, the Alignment and Synergy between PSC and Korean Photonics
Industry
Biography: Chuck Kim is currently, President of Opendream.
-
Business: Representing & consulting business for Semiconductor & Fiber Optics
- International
Business Planning: Consulting for Korean and US market
- M &
A: $20mil M&A under processing with Multi-Chip mounting with INTEL.
- Product
Development for In-situ tool: Under processing for Fiber Optic vendor in US
- Consulting team management: 4 members
(Lawyer, CPA, Treasurer, HR specialist)
-
Financing network: US, Taiwan, Singapore including Korean capitalist.
-
President of CNH Mobile, located in Sunnyvale, CA.
-
Apr 1994 Dec.1999: GM (General Manager) of Samsung at KLA-Tencor
-
Organization: 40 persons (3 sales, 10 Applications, 25 Services, 2 Administrators)
-
Revenue: $100mil dollars per year.
- Product: All
KLA-Tencor products
- KLA: 4th ranked equipment company out of 500 vendors at Semiconductor
equipment.
2002 PSC Annual Meeting Report
Raymond Wang
The 2002 PSC Annual
Meeting was held on March 17 at the campus of University of California, Irvine. The meeting was a great success for its excellent
program arrangement and attending rate. Enclose
you will find the program agenda and the abstract for the each invited speaker. There are over 150 members attaining the meeting
and 120 members attaining the dinner banquet. The
participating members came from Canada, USA, Taiwan, China, Korea, Japan, and other
places. Next year the meeting will be held at
Atlanta. Hope to see you there. The Annual
Meeting presentations (in PowerPoint) will be posted on our web page at psc-a.org. Members are welcome to visit our web page and view
the presentations. Thank you for your
participation.
AGENDA & DETAILS
(Please see page What is New)
Crouching Technologies and Hidden
Profits:
If Winter Comes, Can Spring be
far behind?
Tingye Li
AT&T Labs-Research (Retired)
Boulder, Colorado 80304
ABSTRACT
Amplified WDM
transmission has revolutionized optical fiber communications by creating virtual
fibers for massive capacity upgrades that can meet the large traffic demand of the
Internet. Optical networking offers potential cost savings in network management and
operation, as well as in service provisioning. The abundance of new technologies, systems
innovations, and investment funding has created unprecedented opportunities and enthusiasm
in the telecom industry. Unfortunately, the irrational exuberance and the economic
downturn have led to bankruptcies of new-entrant companies and reductions in capital
expenditures of incumbent service providers, thus casting a wintry pall over the
landscape. When spring returns and rationality prevails, will the crouching technologies
be effectively deployed to realize the hidden profits?
BIOGRAPHY
Tingye
Li retired from AT&T on December 1, 1998. Until then, he has been a Division
Manager in the Communications Infrastructure Research Laboratory of AT&T Laboratories
at Red Bank, New Jersey. He is now an independent consultant in the field of lightwave
communications. Since joining AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1957, he has worked in the
areas of antennas, microwave propagation, lasers and optical communications, in which he
has contributed more than 100 journal papers, patents, books and book chapters. His early work on laser resonator modes
established the basis for the understanding of laser operation. Since the late 1960s, he
and his groups have been engaged in pioneering research on lightwave technologies and
systems, which are now ubiquitously deployed in all arenas of telecommunications. His
latest work with his colleagues on amplified wavelength-division-multiplexed transmission
systems, which they were the first to advocate for upgrading the transmission capacity of
long-distance telecommunications networks, has revolutionized lightwave communications.
He holds a Ph.D. degree from Northwestern
University, Evanston, Illinois. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, the Photonic Society of Chinese-Americans, and the International
Engineering Consortium. He is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the
Academia Sinica (Taiwan) and the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Among the many awards he
has received are the IEEE 1975 W. R. G. Baker Prize, the IEEE 1979 David Sarnoff Award,
the OSA/IEEE 1995 John Tyndall Award, the OSA 1997 Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus Quinn
Endowment, the 1997 AT&T Science and Technology Medal, the 1981 Alumni Merit Award
from Northwestern University, and Achievement Awards from the Chinese Institute of
Engineers/USA in 1978, the Chinese-American Academic and Professional Society in 1983, and
the Photonics Society of Chinese-Americans in 1998. He was named an honorary professor at
many universities in China (including Tsinghua Univ., Shanghai Jiaotong Univ., Beijing
Univ. of Posts and Telecommunications, Northern Jiaotong Univ., Fudan Univ., Nankai Univ.,
Tianjin, Univ., Univ. of Electronic Science and Technology of China, and Qufu Normal
Univ.), and was granted an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree by National Chiao Tung
University in Taiwan. He has been active in various professional societies, and was
President of the Optical Society of America in 1995.
Rebooting Photonics
Milton Chang
Managing Director, Incubic
ABSTRACT
What worked during the bubble economy no longer
works. The speaker will address how one can cope with the current downturn in photonics:
the business models to follow in starting a company, the right strategies for existing
companies, and also how to prepare one's career in order to have open-ended opportunities.
BIOGRAPHY
Milton Chang
is Managing Director of Incubic, and Chairman of Arcturus Engineering, and OEpic. He also
sits on the Boards of Lightwave Electronics, OpVista, Rockwell Scientific, and YesVideo.
Prior, he was President/CEO of Newport and New Focus. He has incubated more than a dozen
companies without a single failure and this effort continues at Incubic Entrepreneurs Fund
(www.incubic.com). He earned BS with highest honors
from the University of Illinois, and MS and Ph.D. from the California Institute of
Technology all in Electrical Engineering. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America
and the Laser Institute of America, and is currently the President of the IEEE Laser
Electro-Optical Society. He writes monthly business columns for the Laser Focus World and
the Photonics Spectra.
Silicon Based Integrated
Photonic Circuits: A Paradigm shift of Fiber Optical Technology Toward Low Cost Optical
Communication Systems
Chi Wu
Founder of LightCross Inc.
(626) 255-5857
ABSTRACT
Data traffic, with the growth rate of
90% per year, has exceeded the voice traffic in year 2001, which has a growth rate of 10%
per year. However, the capital cost and operating cost for transmitting data traffic rise
much quicker than its revenue and profit. This is one of the major challenges for
carriers.
Integrated
photonic circuits, just like Moors Law, are about getting more for less. It offers more
functionality, better performance, and better reliability, for the smaller size, lower
power consumption, lower cost and simple logistics. It
addresses exactly the most critical need for the reduction of network capital and
operating cost.
In this
presentation, different materials of fabricating integrated photonic circuits will be
compared. The challenge, advantages, and future perspectives of Silicon based integrated
optical circuits will be discussed. It concludes that silicon based Integrated optical
circuits riding on the back of the success of silicon IC technology, which is now being
commercially implemented in 12 inch wafers, will provide future solution for the lowest
cost and large volume optical components for optical communication systems.
BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Chi Wu
is
the founder of LightCross Inc., a developer of integrated optical circuits based on
silicon waveguide technology and fables model. He
has been the founding CEO and President of LightCross from 2000-2001 and Chief Technical
Officer and Executive Vice President from 2001-2002. For the first time, LightCross has
developed, transferred and demonstrated that integrated optical components, such as AWG
and VOA can be fabricated at a traditional IC foundry. He was employed at the Jet
Propulsion Laboratories affiliated with the California Institute of Technology from 1997
to 2000. At JPL, Dr. Wu was the task manager and principal investigator on revolutionary
optical component projects. His research resulted in a proprietary fabrication technology
that permits the manufacture of passive and tunable optical networking components based on
well-developed silicon IC fabrication facilities. Dr. Wu has also demonstrated and
patented a high-speed, fully non-blocking optical cross-point switch.
Dr. Wu began his research into optical components in 1986 as a visiting research scholar
at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and later at the University of Toronto,
where he received his Ph.D. as part of a fellowship from Nortel. In 1992, he initiated and
developed Nortel's first tunable filter project, achieving a record-setting tuning range
of 80nm. In 1994, Dr. Wu initiated and served as project leader for the development of
Nortel's first optical switch. For his pioneering research on tunable WDMs at Nortel and
the University of Toronto, Dr. Wu received the 1996 Natural Sciences and Engineering
Research Council (NSERC) National Silver Medal Award. In addition, Dr. Wu was the founding
president of the Canadian Chapter of the Photonics Society of Chinese Americans, the first
vice president of PSC Southern California Chapter, and the Chairman of the Toronto chapter
and Treasurer of the Ottawa chapter of IEEE LEOS. Dr.
Wu holds a total of 11 U.S. patents and has over 45 U.S. patent applications pending.
Metro and Access Networks in China
John Yu
ZTE
Communications USA, Inc.
Dallas, TX USA
Abstract
When Northern
American optical market slows down and continues to consolidate this year, eyes have been
watching outside of US market, especially on China.
We will first analyze overall optical market in China with a detail look of
why China optical market is booming, from technology selections to the government
regulations. Secondly, we will present China
metro/access market situation and special requirements with a real metro network as an
example. Then we will look at the metro/access system technologies, such as SDH/SONET,
Ethernet, etc, and component technologies such as MUX/DMUX, OADM, etc. We will also
briefly discuss how to enter China market as small or big component vendors. Finally, we
will introduce ZTE optical communication technologies, especially the metro optical
solution.
Biography
Jun (John) Yu received the B.Sc. and M. Eng.
degrees in Applied Physics from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China in
1982 and 1985 respectively, and Ph.D. degree in EE with a major in Optoelectronics from
Queens University, Canada in 1994. From
1992 to 1998, he was a senior member of Scientific Staff at the Advanced Technology Lab,
Nortel Networks, Ottawa, Canada, where he was a designer of 10Gb/s InP optical modulator
and high speed GaAs IC. From 1998 to 2000,
he was a staff technical team leader in the lightwave transmission department of Alcatel USA, Dallas, working on 10Gb/s high-speed
line-card hardware development. From 2000 to 2001, he joined Avanex Corporation, Dallas,
as a director of product marketing, responsible for subsystem product development, OEM
projects as well as sales in China. Since October 2001, he has become a general manager in
ZTE Communications USA, Inc. at Dallas, a subsidiary company of ZTE Corporation, China. Dr. Yu has been awarded four US patents and
published more than 10 papers in IEEE journals and conferences.
Status of
Optical Amplifiers: System Applications and Component Requirements
Yan
Sun, Simon Chen, and Yongan Wu
Onetta Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
Tel:
(408) 744-3523
Fax:
(408) 744-3602
Abstract
The recent
progress in optical amplifiers is reviewed in this talk. To meet the traffic demands and
to cut the equipment and operation costs, fiber-optic communication systems are focused on
four areas: longer reaches, wider bandwidths, higher speeds and the intelligence of the
system. Several types of optical fiber amplifiers will be reviewed with the emphasis on
the attributes that support system requirements in these four areas. The associated
components will also be discussed.
Biography
Dr. Yan Sun is the
chief technical officer and vice president of engineering at Onetta, Inc. A co-founder of
Onetta, Sun leads a team that focuses on the R&D of intelligent optical modules. Prior
to Onetta, he worked from 1995 to 2000 on optical amplifiers and WDM optical communication
systems at Bell Laboratories and optical networking group, Lucent Technologies, as a
member of technical staff and then a senior manager. At Bell Labs, he and his colleagues
pioneered multiple revolutionary discoveries in the area of WDM optical communications,
including ultra wide band optical amplifiers, long haul transmission at terabits levels,
and DWDM system transmission with semiconductor optical amplifiers. They discovered, modeled and studied the control
schemes of fast power transients in optically amplified networks, and developed ultra wide
band optical amplifiers for dense WDM optical communication systems
Dr. Sun earned a Bachelors of Science in Physics from Shandong
Normal University and a Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University
of Electronic Science and Technology of China. In 1995, he received a Ph.D. in Electrical
Engineering from Stanford University. Dr. Yan was the recipient of several prestigious
awards, including the Bell Labs President Gold Award from Lucent Technologies and the
Innovator of the Year Trophy in Paris, France. He
is the author and co-author of more than 100 publications and presentations. Dr. Sun is a
senior member of IEEE and a member of OSA.
Chaotic
Optical Communication with Chaotic Pulsing Semiconductor Lasers
Shuo Tang and Jia-ming Liu
UCLA
Abstract
Chaotic optical
communication is of great interests recently because of potential applications in secure
communications and spread spectrum communications. Chaotic communication is a
communication scheme that uses chaotic waveform as carrier to transmit messages. In a
chaotic communication system, a chaos generator is used to generate the chaotic waveform.
Chaotic waveform has the characteristics of noise-like time series and broadband spectrum,
which are characteristics desired for hiding messages in both time and frequency domains.
Messages are encoded onto and hidden within the chaotic waveform and further transmitted
to a receiver through a communication channel. At the receiver, an identical chaos
generator is used to duplicate the chaotic waveform. Message decoding is achieved through
subtracting the chaotic waveform from the received signal.
Chaotic dynamics
exists in many nonlinear systems. The chaotic waveform in our experiment is generated by a
semiconductor laser system with delayed optoelectronic feedback. The feedback delay time,
feedback strength, and DC bias current of the semiconductor laser are adjustable operating
parameters. The laser system generates fast chaotic pulse stream under certain operating
conditions through a route of quasi-periodicity, in which the laser dynamics develops from
CW, to regular pulsing, to quasi-periodic pulsing, and finally to chaotic pulsing. The
chaotic pulse stream has noise-like fluctuation in both pulse intensity and pulse interval
on a sub-nanosecond time scale. The chaotic pulse stream is used to encode and decode
high-speed digital messages for chaotic optical communications.
Our chaotic
optical communication system is composed of two chaotic pulsing semiconductor lasers that
serve as transmitter and receiver respectively. The two lasers are coupled together
through a communication channel. To ensure reliable message recovery, the output of the
receiver laser needs to synchronize with the chaotic pulsing waveform from the transmitter
laser. The transmitter and receiver lasers are carefully chosen identical lasers and their
operating conditions are fine-tuned for parameter match that is very crucial in chaotic
communications. In the experiment, high quality of chaotic synchronization is achieved
between the transmitter and the receiver lasers. The receiver laser nicely reproduces the
chaotic waveform from the transmitter laser. In the chaotic optical communication
experiment, digital messages are encoded onto the chaotic pulsing carrier through additive
chaos modulation. At the receiver, the chaotic pulse waveform is subtracted from the
received signal for decoding. Message encoding and decoding of pseudo-random NRZ signals
at 2.5 Gbit/s bit-rate is demonstrated and good quality of message recovery is achieved.
This is the first demonstration of 2.5 Gbit/s chaotic communication experiment. The
success of this experiment shows that chaotic optical communication is applicable at high
bit rate that matches with commercial optical communication standards.
Cooperative-Create
a new era in Chinese Photonics World
Dr. Peter T. C. Shih
Professor, Taiwan
University, ROC
Abstract
Following last year's speech,
Dr. Shih elaborates more on the subject of Optoelectronics in China, Taiwan and Chinese in
North America. With the cooperative scheme in
mind: cultivate and combine the value chain of the human resource, market, innovation,
dynamic, finance, the strength of the tri-party. Together
we can create a new era of Photonic world and eventually a Chinese Photonic World.
Biography
The optoelectronic industry in Taiwan is seen as a new avenue of growth
today when the development of Taiwan's Industry has reached turning point to move into
higher-value-added industry. Dr. Peter T. C.
Shih is among the first to recognize that optoelectronics is the key technology for
developing Taiwan's high-tech industry and economy.
Dr. Shih was invited to be a technological consultant for Taiwan, Republic of China
in 1982, after years of service at Rockwell SRL in the U. S. A. Owing to his suggestion, optoelectronics was
approved by the government to be included as one of the major thrust area in science and
technology development policy of the government. In
1984, Executive Yuan, Republic of China, appointed Dr. Shih as the executive director of
Electro-optics Science & Technology Committee, National Science Council (EOC). During his tenure, he made accomplishments to the
EOC's missions. He coordinated six
departments to implement the 8 years program of Electro-optic Technology and Industry
Development (1986-1994) with the total budget of NT$10 billion, and additional 4 years
program. (1996 1999). The
program also created two organizations, ITRI's Optoelectronic Institute and PIDA, which
geared up the development of optoelectronic industry in Taiwan.
In addition, Dr. Shih showed his insights into the cooperation among industry,
government, and academy. He is the first
person who proposed on the cooperation between industry and academy to the National
Science Council. As a result, four
optoelectronic programs of the cooperation were implemented successfully. Two of the programs achieved world record. Furthermore, he initiated the International
Electro-Optic Exposition held every other year since 1987.
The exposition brought great interaction between industry and academy for
optoelectronic technology, product, and international image. In 1993, Photonics Industry and Technology
Development Association (PIDA) was founded, under the effort of Dr. Shih, by the funding
and donation of government and industry.
The other contribution from
Dr. Shih is the promotion for the optoelectronic industry.
He helped and led the traditional industry such as cement, textile, steel, paper,
cable, etc. to re-direct their investment to optoelectronics and inspired overseas experts
to invest optoelectronic product in Taiwan. He
also developed international cooperation. For
example, he signed agreements with Japan's OITDA for information sharing, staff visiting,
report translation; co-sponsored conference with SPIE and held 4 nations Optos
meeting. Besides this, he helped form
the Photonics Society of Chinese - Americans (PSC) in North America for overseas Chinese
and he also helped promote the relationship between France and Taiwan in different
sectors. Dr. Shih's foresight in the
importance of mass media and communication channel for promotion of optoelectronics enable
him to take charge of publications successfully; for example, the Opto News magazine is
well received and circulated among Chinese readers around the globe. To date, Taiwans opto industry has reached a
production value total 11 billion US dollars, products such as LED, LCD, CD-R, CD-ROM,
scanner emerge as number one producer in the world. Last
years investment is a record high 6 billion US dollars.
Dr. Shih's passion for the optoelectronics drives him to devote himself to develop
optoelectronics for Taiwan. Meanwhile, Dr.
Shih points out the "ecological society" will be the new direction for human's
endeavor after the "information society". Therefore,
he think that the next phase of work is again to promote optoelectronics & laser
applied in ecology, environment protection, energy, bio-medicine, agriculture, and ocean
for the sustainable resources and improving human's life quality for the coming 21st
century.
Dr. Shih studied his Ph.D. in France, Grenoble in the 70s, he was born in
August 5 1949. He is presently with the
National Science Council, head of the Electro-optics Committee and also the adjunct
professor at the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. He has received numerous awards, honors from
different societies, agencies & countries including UK, USA, Singapore & Japan.
Optical
Component Industry in China Market and Vendor
Profile
Zheng Liu
Chief Editor, China Fiber
Online
e-mail: Jacquesliu@vip.163.com,
Tel: 86-755-6831056
Abstract
In this
presentation, I will introduce the whole fiberoptics components industry in China. First I
will show the basic business data and main technical achievements in the year of 2001.
Then from product and geography point of view, Ill introduce the total components
industry in China. At the end, I will give my opinion to Chinas fiberoptics market
and the potential hurdles.
Biography
Zheng Liu was with Nanjing Fujitsu Tele-communication System
Co., LTD. And worked as system engineer for Working on SDH system design from 1995-1996. From 1996 to 2001work with Shenzhen Photon
Technology Co., Ltd., as R&D engineer, Market Developing manager. Photon Technology Co. Ltd. Is a Sino-American
joint venture. With Nortel (Now Agere), located in California, which is a leading company
on designing and manufacturing semiconductor laser diodes and CATV systems. Liu received Technology Progress Award for the
work on Sonnet OC-12 module in 1998 from Shenzhen government. His working scopes are as following: (1) Design
and production of the EDFA, especially on the selecting and testing of erbium fiber, (2)
Design and production of Sonet OC-12 Module at the general level of the same products from
Lucent. (3) Designing and producing 2.5 Gb/s DFB modules, mainly about the matching
circuit between the driving circuit and the LD. (4) Pre-research work on integrated optic
circuits, DWDM passive components, like filter, switch etc. (5) Marketing of CATV system,
especially 1550nm system. (6) Marketing of IP network. The work mainly helps to satisfy
the request of our customers. In detail, my work is about the network design, choosing
suitable gigabyte Ethernet equipment, and developing the equipment. (7) Creating personal
Chinese fiberoptics homepage Http://www.c-fol.net, which is a website
about fiber optics product, figure, manufacture, technology in China. From July 2001now, he worked as a chief
editor of CFOL.
Mr. Liu has B.S. degree
on1992 from Physical Electronics of Southeast University located in Nanjing, Jiangsu
Province. The graduate work covered the
coupling between the laser diode and the fiber, electronic tunable liquid crystal filter. The coupling efficient reaches 30% and the filter
shows the basic characteristics. He received Master Sc. on Lightwave communication on 1995
from Southeast University, Nanjing Jiangsu Province.
His thesis topic is The Experimental and Research Work on Fiber Ring
Laser. The final output power reaches 10dBm and the noise figure reaches 4dB. In 1994, He worked in the E.E. department of the
Chinese University of Hong Kong and assisted Dr. K. T. Chan. His fiber ring laser produced ultra-short (~20
pico-seconds) pulses. Mr. Liu has been
published oner seven papers and also won a couple of Certificates. Mr. Liu
is interested in reading, arts, history, running, swimming, and computers etc.
Optical
Component Industry In Taiwan Market and Vendor Profile
Kaofeng Tsai
President, RiteKom
Photonics Corp
Tel: 886-35-828270,
Fax:886-35-828455
Abstract
This
presentation will cover the Opto-electronics industry development status in Taiwan and
also address the strength and the opportunity for attacking global market. In particular,
models for cooperation between Taiwan and China in optical communication market will be
presented. A brief introduction of Ritekom Photonics Corp will also be given.
Biography
Mr. Kaofeng Tsai (President of RiteKom Photonics
Corp.)
He
received BS degree from National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan in 1979 in Nuclear
Engineering. And later he received MS degrees of Chemical and Electrical Engineering
majored in III-V Phase-Modulator in Optical Communication, from University of California
at Santa Barbara in 1984.
From
1984 to 1988, he worked in Siemens Research Corp on designing and characterizing III-V
phase modulators for high-speed optical communication systems.
He
joined Telecommunication Laboratory of Chung-Hua Telecom, Taiwan on optical active/passive
devices and systems in 1988 at the same time he was a visiting lecturer of Chung-Hua
University on optical fiber sensing.
In
1990 he founded Baycom Opto-Electronics Technology in Hsinchu Science Park. The company produced optical fiber cables, passive
components and optical transceiver. During his President period from 1996 to 2000, Baycom
was recognized as the most successful company in optical fiber and component.
In
2001 he founded RiteKom Photonics Corp for developing & marketing (1) optical fiber
pre-form, fiber and cable; (2) optical transceivers/transponders from 100Mbps to 10Gbps
for Ethernet, Fiber Channel, ATM and other protocols.
Due
to his long-term involvement in the opto-electronics and optical communication industry,
Mr. Tsai was frequently invited by Institutes of China and Taiwan to give talks on
industry analysis, optical technology trend, globalization, corporate management and
investments advisor.
In
2000 and 2002, Mr. Tsai served as the Chairman of Taiwan Optical Fiber Communication
Forum, one of Forums of PIDA.
Status and Future
Opportunities in the Optoelectronics Business in Taiwan
Dr. Y.S. Liu
VP of
ITRI, ROC
Biography
Dr. Yung S. Liu
is Fellow and VP of Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) and currently serves
as General Director of the Opto-Electronics and Systems Labs (OES) in charge of the optoelectronic R&D
program of ITRI in Hsinchu, Taiwan. He received his Ph.D. in Applied and Engineering
Physics from Cornell University and BS in Physics from National Taiwan University.
Before returning to Taiwan in 1998, he was with GE Corporate R& D
Center in Schenectady, New York, and had managed various R&D programs on advanced
technology development in interconnect, optoelectronic packaging, micro-fabrication and
processing, and solid state laser and nonlinear optical materials and devices. He received
many awards and honors including GE Managerial Award for his leadership role in
development of slab laser technology and business, GE Outstanding Achievement Award for
his major contribution to the solid-state slab laser technology, GE Patent Awards, and
Publication Awards. In 1998, Dr. Liu was selected by Industry Weeks as one of the
50 R&D Stars to Watch for his pioneering effort in the development of
advanced optical interconnect technology for advanced digital systems.
Dr. Liu is Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA), Fellow of
PSC, a Senior Member of IEEE, and a member of American Physical Society, and SPIE. He was
also active in the community services. In 1996-97, he was President of the Chinese
Community Center of the Capital District, New Yorka non-profit organization that
serves the Chinese community in the Capital district of New York with 300 family members.
He was also the publisher of CCC News, a monthly publication that has over 400 copies in
circulation. While in college at National Taiwan University, he was the founder and
publisher of the New Hope Magazine, a publication that advocated the student
movement.
The Challenge
and Opportunity of ULH DWDM System in China
Ping An Zhang
V.P. of Huawei
Technologies Cop
Abstract
As it is well
known that, after restructuring of the China telecom industry, there will be four huge
carriers. At the same time, all the infrastructure networks will face new challenges and
more opportunities to adapt to this change. For ULH DWDM transmission system, the four
carriers have different requirements and considerations based on their traffic and
different regional economic conditions. ULH DWDM trial systems beyond 1000km and over
40chs without regenerator will be possibly built this year. To help further understanding
the optical network market in China, a brief introduction to Huawei, which is the biggest
optical network equipment vendor in China, will be given.
Biography
Ping An Zhang, received his B.E. from XiDian
University in 1993, M.E from Zhejiang University in 1996, P. R. China, all majored in EE.
He joined the R&D department of Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. in 1996 to develop the
series SDH and DWDM systems. Now, Mr. Zhang, as the vice
president of R&D, is responsible for the R&D activities in Optical Networking
Department which cover all optical networking systems including NG SDH/SONET, metro DWDM,
LH/ULH DWDM and other optical systems in access application.
Fund Raising
for Opto-electronics Company under Current Economic Situation
Mike Feng
Partner at InveStar
Capital, Inc
Abstract
Fund raising for
high-tech startups has undergone tremendous changes in the past two years. Valuation is
lower, terms are tougher, closing cycle is longer, and the number of funded financing
rounds is fewer. To address some of the
challenges facing start-ups when raising funds, Mr. Mike Feng will speak on the topic,
fund raising for opto- electronics company under current economic situation,
which consists of:
(1) A Review of the Equity
Financing Situations between 1998-2001
(2) A Current Outlook on Venture
Trends for 2002
(3) Some Key Aspects VCs Look for
When Funding a Financing Round
(4) A Look at Some Alternative
Funding Sources
Biography
Mr.
Mike Feng
is a Partner at InveStar Capital, Inc. Since joining the company in January 2001, Mr. Feng
is responsible for InveStar's Irvine Office. Mr. Feng has nearly 20 years of experience in
the document scanning, electronic imaging and software industries. Before joining
InveStar, Mr. Feng has spent more than 9 years as the President of Mustek (USA), a leading
scanner, DVD and digital camera company with annual revenue over $100 million. Prior to
that, Mr. Feng worked for U-Lead Systems, Microtek Lab, and FileNet in various technical
and management positions. Mr. Feng currently sits on the Board of Directors of several
hi-tech companies including Mustek, Match Lab, Newport Opticom, and OmegaBand. Mr. Feng is
also a member of the Advisory Board of Asia Optical.
Mr. Feng holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the
University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Science degree in Communication
Engineering from National Chiao-Tung University.
A VC's
Perspective on Photonics Investment
Ron Cao
Investment Manager, KLM
Capital Group
Abstract
Both 2000 and 2001
were very difficult years for venture investments. For
venture capitalists, those two years were the worst years ever on record in terms of
returns. According to Venture Economics, the average median net IRR to LPs for vintage
year funds between 1981 and 1998 were over 20%, whiles the 1999 and 2000 vintage year
funds have significantly under-performed with negative double-digits returns so far. These
numbers will get worst as more startups file for bankruptcy and fund manager continue to
re-value their portfolios.
At the heart of
the telecom meltdown lies fiber optics. VCs poured a record amount of dollars into
photonics from 1999 to 2001. Some of the
early investments paid off, while most VCs are scrambling today to find any liquidity for
their portfolio. As the photonics market continue to stabilize and consolidate, a couple
of things are clear.
1) The first
generation of technology is relative mature
2) Market is
small. The most dominant player in this market, JDSU, only generated 286M in revenue this
last quarter.
Currently, VCs are
spending most of their time/money "rescuing" their current portfolio companies. Most of the new deals closed today are second and
third round opportunities at first round prices. Only
a few first round deals are being done, because of funding risk and lack of visibility to
revenue. VCs are going to school to learn the
basics. Business plans with incremental
technology are simply not going to be funded. Technology itself is not enough. Revenue,
cost and road to profitability are pretty important things too. Experienced management team is a must. Valuations will continue to be low/or/back to
"normal".
Going forward,
many VCs will all-together stop investing in fiber optics.
Other VCs who might have longer horizon or more balanced portfolios will
continue to look for innovations in this space. Unlike
the .com bubble, technology innovation will continue to generate value in photonics. Some of the interesting areas of development
include planar integration, low cost amplifiers, reconfigurable/tunable devices, and
high-speed electronics. For entrepreneurs who truly have something unique, this is
absolutely the perfect time to start your business. Large companies are forced to focus on
short-term revenue. As they cut down their R&D efforts, this is the perfect
opportunity for startups to charge ahead. Find
patient investors with experience and knowledge in your space and start your business
today!
Biography
Ron Cao is an
Investment Manager at KLM Capital Group focusing on communications related investments.
Prior to joining KLM in 1999, Ron was a technical marketing manager at Intel responsible
for the launch of its mobile Pentium III processor. Prior to that, Ron was an operation
supervisor involved with the development and ramp of Intel's 0.25u manufacturing process.
The portfolio companies that Ron is actively involved with include Umachines, Wavestream
Photonics, Novera Optics, and
Amplify.net. Ron received both his M.Eng. & B.S. in Electrical
Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
KLM Capita Group, a global technology venture partner, focuses on
early stage investments in the communications, information technology and semiconductor
industries and maintains offices in Silicon Valley, Austin and Hong Kong. For more information, visit KLM's website at
www.klmtech.com.
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