Axcel Appoints Dr. Aland Chin VP of Manufacturing.Business/Technology Editors MARLBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 29, 2002 Axcel Photonics Inc., a provider of high power pump laser A laser used as the pump for an optical amplifier or other laser. See EDFA and laser. modules for optical networks, today announced the appointment of Dr. Aland Chin as Vice President of Manufacturing. Dr. Chin's extensive manufacturing experience in photonics most recently includes Boston Laser, where as a member of the executive team Dr. Chin successfully led the effort to telco qualify high power pump lasers for fiber amplifiers. Prior to this, Dr. Chin was Director of Opto-electronics at Polaroid, and managed the Laser Processing Group at AT&T Bell Labs. Dr. Chin holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell University Cornell University, mainly at Ithaca, N.Y.; with land-grant, state, and private support; coeducational; chartered 1865, opened 1868. It was named for Ezra Cornell, who donated $500,000 and a tract of land. With the help of state senator Andrew D. and has been granted 12 US patents. "Dr. Chin's appointment fills a critical role on Axcel's management team", commented Dr. Wei Gao, founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Axcel. "His manufacturing and management experience combined with his in-depth knowledge of laser processes, are valuable skills and will further enable Axcel to achieve it's goals", continued Dr. Gao. "We are pleased with the appointment of Dr. Chin at Axcel", added Bharat Gupte, Chairmen of the Board at Axcel and President of Components and Subsystems at Comstellar. "His experience and commitment to operational excellence will continue to increase the companies value to its shareholders and customers", continued Gupte. About Axcel Photonics Located in Marlborough, Massachusetts Marlborough is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 36,255 at the 2000 census. The name of this town is sometimes spelled as Marlboro, rather than Marlborough, which is the official spelling. the company's original financing came from Comstellar Technologies. The company was founded in June of 2000, and was formed to focus on the design and manufacture high-power, high reliability, low-cost pump lasers for Erbium-doped Fiber Amplifiers (EDFAs) and Raman amplifiers. The product addresses the existing and growing Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing See WDM. (DWDM (Dense WDM) The term given to wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) when significantly more channels were being added. Since WDM is increasingly more "dense" all the time, both terms are used synonymously. See WDM. DWDM - wavelength division multiplexing ) market. For more information, see the Axcel web site at www.axcelphotonics.com. About Comstellar Technologies, Inc. Comstellar Technologies, Inc. (www.comstellar.com) is the premier organization for architecting innovative companies that will develop core disruptive technologies to dramatically improve the capabilities of the communications network The transmission channels interconnecting all client and server stations as well as all supporting hardware and software. and drive the next generation of communications. Its founders have a proven record of leadership and expertise in the communications industry at companies such as Telcordia, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Sun, StratumOne, and Cerent. Comstellar, with headquarters in New Jersey and offices in California, has raised approximately $150 million in investment capital, led by Accel Partners and New Enterprise Associates. Redwood Ventures, the venture capital affiliate of Comstellar Technologies, is a separate fund financing the broader universe of communications companies developing innovative and emerging technologies. The current fund is organized as Redwood Ventures IV, LP. |
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