ADVISORY/Agility Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder Larry Coldren to Discuss Wavelength Monitoring in Widely Tunable Lasers at Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

2002 CLEO/QELS

ADVISORY... for Wednesday (May 22)

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Agility Communications Inc.

Media are invited to hear Larry Coldren, chief technology officer and co-founder of Agility Communications Inc., discuss wavelength monitoring in widely tunable lasers at the 22nd annual Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2002) and the 10th Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS 2002) which will be held concurrently, May 19-24, 2002 at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, Calif. The CLEO is the key forum for optical device technology development, and systems engineering, which is the foundation of the ongoing revolution in a wide range of applications. The QELS is the largest North American conference concerning research in lasers, nonlinear optics, and the fundamental laser spectroscopy of atoms and condensed matter. These premier conferences coordinated together create a comprehensive set of high-quality meetings to present the latest basic and applied research, and applications in the related fields of quantum electronics, laser science, and electro-optics.

In line with both the conferences' focus, Coldren and a panel of Agility executives and professors from the University of California Santa Barbara will present a method for monitoring emission wavelength in widely tunable sampled-grating DBR lasers integrated with semiconductor laser amplifiers (SOAs).

When and Where

Media are invited to hear the a presentation on wavelength monitoring in widely tunable lasers at the 2002 CLEO/QELS conferences on Wednesday, May 22, at 6:00 p.m. in the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, Calif. For more information about the conference, visit http://www.cleoconference.org/attendee/home.cfm?menu_id=0000. For more information about Agility Communications, visit www.agility.com

Biography for Larry Coldren, Chairman of the Board, CTO, and

Co-founder

Larry Coldren co-founded Agility Communications, Inc. in October 1998. He is recognized as one of the world's leading authorities and experts in the fields of vertical-cavity and in-plane laser research. In his 30-year career, Coldren has made substantial contributions to the academic and private industry sectors. He is well known as the author of the defining textbook in this field, leading to significant scientific advancements in the industry. In 1990, he co-founded a successful startup company, OCI (now Gore Photonics) which focuses on VCSEL development. Previously at AT&T Bell Laboratories, he worked on guided surface-acoustic-wave devices, microfabrication techniques, and tunable diode lasers. Coldren has bachelor's degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics from Bucknell University. He also holds a master's degree and doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

About Agility Communications, Inc.

Agility Communications, Inc., the leader in pioneering widely tunable lasers for metro, switching, and long-haul markets, is providing the lowest total cost of ownership and dramatically reducing the costs and complexity of supporting agile networks. The company has been named one of Light Reading's Top 10 Privately Held Companies, has won the Technologic Partners' Optix 2001 Investors' Choice award, and was listed in UPSIDE Magazine's "Hot 100" private companies for 2001. Agility has also been highlighted in several "Hot Companies to Watch" lists, including ones in Business Week and Lightwave Magazine.

Founded by a team of optical networking and semiconductor veterans in Oct. 1998, Agility is headquartered in Santa Barbara, Calif., and has manufacturing facilities in Allentown, Penn. Agility investors include Alliance, Amerindo Investment Advisors, CIENA Corp., Comdisco Ventures, Dell Ventures, General Bank, GM Investment Management Corp., Global Strategic, Granite Global Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners, Mitsubishi International Corp., Morgenthaler Ventures, Mustang Ventures, Nissho Electronics Corp., Nissho Iwai American Corp., Tellabs, U.S. Venture Partners, and Worldview Technology Partners. For more information about Agility solutions, visit www.agility.com, send email to [e-mail], or call 805-690-1700.

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