What Happened?
Alhambra, CA-based Emcore has Promoted Hank Blauvelt as Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
Emcore offers a broad portfolio of compound semiconductor-based products for the broadband and specialty fiber optics market. Emcore`s Fiber Optics technologies convert electrical energy into optical signals, enabling high-speed communications infrastructures. We design and manufacture optical components, subsystems and systems that enable the transmission of video, voice, and data over high-capacity fiber optic links for a wide variety of applications including Cable Television (CATV) and Fiber-To-The-Premise (FTTP) networks, Satellite and Microwave Communications, and Broadcast and Professional Audio/Video. In addition, Emcore provides specialty photonics technologies for Commercial, Government, Aerospace and Defense applications.
About the Person
Hank Blauvelt was appointed Chief Technology Officer of EMCORE Corporation in January 2015. Dr. Blauvelt joined EMCORE in December 2007 as Chief Scientist with principal responsibility for the development of technologies for linear fiber optic applications. Prior to joining EMCORE, Dr. Blauvelt was Chief Technology Officer for Xponent from October 2001 until 2007. He was employed by Ortel Corporation between 1985 and 2000, when the company was acquired by Lucent Technologies. Dr. Blauvelt distinguished himself by important contributions in the design of optical transmitters and receivers for transmission of CATV signals over fiberoptic links and was the principal inventor on the Ortel patents related to reducing noise and distortion in the links. In 1992 he was promoted to Vice President of Fiber Optics Technology at Ortel, and after Ortel`s acquisition, Dr. Blauvelt was named Chief Technologist for Optical Access Products at Lucent Technologies/Agere Systems. Dr. Blauvelt received his B.S. in Applied Physics from Cornell University and earned his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Caltech. He has been awarded more than 60 U.S. patents.
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