Pine Brook, NJ – Chiral Photonics, Inc. (CPI), a photonics company commercializing next generation optical components, lasers, and displays based on its proprietary in-fiber and thin-film technologies as well as glass microforming capabilities, today announced that Dr. Stan Lumish joined its Board of Directors.

Dr. Lumish, most recently, is the former chief technology officer at JDS Uniphase Corporation (JDSU). JDSU is the leading provider of communications test and measurement solutions and optical products for the telecommunications industry.

Dr. Lumish began his career at AT&T Bell Labs, after receiving his PhD in Electrical Engineering from State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1982. Dr. Lumish held numerous management positions with AT&T Network Systems and Lucent Technologies, where he received the prestigious Bell Labs Fellow award for his work in Dense WDM systems. Dr. Lumish joined JDS Uniphase in February 2000 as Vice President, Network Product Applications and subsequently also led the R&D efforts of the Transmission Subsystems Group. From July 2002 to June 2003 he was President of the Optical Layer group. He then became the CTO for JDSU where he was responsible for technology strategy across communications, commercial, and consumer markets. Currently, Dr. Lumish continues to serve JDSU as a consultant on intellectual property. He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, OSA and a senior member of the IEEE. He is a member of the External Advisory Board of the Tyndall National Institute and is on the Editorial Advisory Board of Lightwave Magazine.

Welcoming Dr. Lumish to the Board, Dan Neugroschl, CPI’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, commented, “We are fortunate to be able to add Dr. Lumish to our Board of Directors. Stan provides a wealth of industry insight and technology commercialization experience. He joins us at an especially opportune time as we build our commercialization efforts to address our products’ many diverse applications. During his distinguished career, Stan has demonstrated his operational, strategic and leadership skills as a senior executive at JDSU, Lucent and AT&T Bell Labs. This experience, including his familiarity with Asia-Pacific and other global markets, makes him an invaluable addition to the Chiral Photonics’ Board.”

“I am excited about the opportunity to work with the Chiral Photonics leadership team”, said Dr. Lumish about his recent appointment. He went on to say, “Chiral Photonics offers a compelling blend of dramatic technology innovation, through their patented, microfabricated fiber structures, with clear opportunities for practical applications, and a team that has demonstrated their ability to commercialize new ideas.”

About Chiral Photonics
Chiral Photonics, Inc. (CPI) is a photonic foundry microforming functionality into optical fibers. Drawing and twisting of optical fibers with sub-micron accuracy, CPI creates flexible, small, robust, fiber components that can filter, sense, couple and lase. CPI’s canvas is optical fiber, the infrastructure of modern photonics, much as the semiconductor wafer is to an integrated circuit foundry.

Varied draw and twist profiles yield varied optical properties. These properties permit a wide array of passive and active devices across a broad spectral range, from ultraviolet to far-infrared and beyond. These building-block devices are produced using scalable, automated processes and serve customers worldwide in communications, defense, test and measurement, instrumentation, computing and diverse sensing applications - biomedical diagnostics to power grid monitoring.

CPI has introduced flexible, high power polarizers, sensor elements suitable for harsh environment applications and couplers that efficiently couple optical devices and waveguides with highly divergent dimensions and numerical apertures. Included in upcoming offerings, CPI is developing its first active device - a low cost, narrow wavelength, single-frequency, single-polarization laser.

To learn more about Chiral Photonics, visit our Web site at: www.chiralphotonics.com, or contact Gary Weiner at 973-732-0030 x114, gweiner {at} chiralphotonics(.)com.

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Gary Weiner
Chiral Photonics
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