ASIP Laser Accomplishment Recognized by the Optical Fiber Communication Conference.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SOMERSET, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 2, 2003

ASIP Receives Post-deadline Paper Honors

at OFC for World's First Commercially Available 10Gb/s Uncooled EML 

ASIP, Inc., an emerging leader in the development of photonic integrated circuits, announced today it was recognized at the recent Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) with the acceptance of a post-deadline paper describing the company's breakthrough work on advanced laser design. The paper, which reported on the design and performance of the ASIP uncooled EML (Electro-absorption Modulated Laser) platform, was presented by ASIP's Chief Technology Officer Milind Gokhale.

The OFC post-deadline paper program is a rigorous, peer-reviewed process that recognizes work representing the highest degree of technical achievement in the optics industry. Other criteria cited by the OFC for acceptance of papers include the degree of applicability and interest in the community of the work.

Founded in July 2000 by researchers from Princeton University, and complemented by a talented team from the optics and semiconductor industries, ASIP has developed a revolutionary method for designing Indium Phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits. All of ASIP's products are built on its patented Asymmetric TwinGuide(TM) (ATG) technology platform, enabling the company to offer its customers a wide variety of high-performance and cost-effective products.

"Our recognition by the OFC Technical Program Committee underscores our commitment to providing breakthrough optical components to the market," said Mike Decelle, president and CEO of ASIP. "Our EML technologies are designed to meet the demanding requirements of next-generation optical transceivers, offering industry-leading performance with greatly reduced power dissipation. Our breakthrough design is viewed by our customers as the standard against which all other 1310nm laser sources are judged."

The paper by ASIP is titled, "Uncooled, 10Gb/s 1310nm Electroabsorption Modulated Laser" and was authored by Milind R. Gokhale, Pavel V. Studenkov, John Ueng-McHale, John Thomson, Jie Yao and John van Saders. A download of the paper is available from the ASIP website at www.asipinc.com.

About ASIP, Inc.

ASIP, headquartered in Somerset, N.J., is an emerging leader in the development of advanced, photonic integrated circuits, initially including high-speed laser sources and high-sensitivity photodetectors at both 10Gb/s and 40Gb/s. The company was founded in July 2000 based on several years of research and development at Princeton University. ASIP's core technology, the ATG, licensed exclusively from Princeton University, is a highly-scalable platform for monolithic photonic integration and delivers unprecedented levels of functional integration at low cost and world-class optical performance. Using standard and proven semiconductor fabrication techniques, ASIP has overcome the traditionally poor yield of complex, Indium Phosphide-based devices, helping customers deliver low cost, high performance solutions to the market.

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