BinOptics Executive Honored as OSA Fellow

Alan Morrow, BinOptics' VP of Technology & Administration, has been honored as a Fellow of the Optical Society of America.

Ithaca , N.Y., January 18, 2008 – Morrow's career has encompassed many aspects of the photonics business including early fiber and component development, low cost packaging and integration research, laser diode manufacturing, new business development, and financial management. He holds nine U.S. patents in the optoelectronics and photonics field.

Morrow received the B.S. degree in Materials Science and M.S. degree in Ceramics from M.I.T. in 1973. He began his career in electronic components as a development engineer with Corning Inc. in Raleigh, NC. His work in optics began in 1977 when he joined the first optical fiber development group in Corning, NY. Working with some of the pioneers of the optical fiber communications community, he made significant contributions to the design, processing, and understanding of optical fibers for communications and other applications. He played a key role in the development of the outside vapor deposition process for single-mode and multimode fibers and successfully scaled up and transferred these products to production. The availability of this high quality single-mode fiber in volume was key to the first large-scale fiber deployments by MCI in the early 80s. He also developed processes for dispersion-flattened fiber, fluorine doping, and new glasses with the potential for ultra-low loss. Working with researchers at British Telecom Labs, he helped quantify and control the first identified hydrogen aging mechanisms observed in optical fibers. In 1988 he expanded his work to optical components where he led the development of ultra-high reliability couplers for undersea systems. As part of this effort, he played a key role in the formation of a new business division for photonic components at Corning that grew to over $100 million in sales. In 1998, he formed and directed a research group with the aim of reducing the packaging and assembly cost of optical components. Later, the effort was expanded to include integration technologies for active and passive devices with research groups in England, France, Russia as well as Corning.

Mr. Morrow joined BinOptics Corporation in Ithaca, NY as VP of Technology Development in early 2003 where he has focused on reliability, packaging, and materials in support of BinOptics Etched Facet Technology (EFT) for the production of cost-effective lasers and integrated microphotonic chips. He added responsibilities for finance and administration to his duties in 2006.

Morrow has been a contributor to the optics community throughout his career. He has presented numerous papers, invited papers, and tutorials on optical fibers and components at OFC and other conferences and has co-authored over 35 publications. He was Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) Conference technical co-chair in 1988 and general co-chair in 1990. He also served on the OFC Steering Committee, the European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC) technical committee, the Optoelectronics and Communications Conference (OECC) International Advisory Committee, the Integrated Optics and Optical Communications (IOOC) Conference technical and management committees, and the OSA Publications Committee. He has chaired the OSA Optical Communications Technical Committee, the Tyndall Award Committee, and the optoelectronics committee of the Electronics Components and Technology Conference (ECTC).

Mr. Morrow will receive his plaque and be formally recognized as an OSA Fellow at the OFC Award and Plenary Session at 8:00am on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 in San Diego. BinOptics congratulates him on this honor.

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About BinOptics Corporation

BinOptics manufactures monolithically integrated laser chips based on its proprietary etched-facet technology. This unique platform allows the company to meet commercial requirements with higher reproducibility, more flexibility for product design and integration, significantly lower cost, and higher performance than alternative processes. The company's products address datacom and telecom applications such as gigabit Ethernet and PON as well as advanced non-telecom applications. Founded in November 2000, BinOptics is privately held. The company is located in the Cornell Business & Technology Park in Ithaca, N.Y.

For more information about BinOptics and its products, please visit www.binoptics.com or contact Norman Kwong at sales@binoptics.com or 607-257-3200 x251.

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