Byron Trop

Capella is the industry leader of wavelength selective switch (WSS) technology for use in reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADM) and optical cross connect (OXC) applications. Capella's intelligent subsystems provide the best performing wavelength management products on the market offering dynamic, remote reconfigurability with fully integrated optical channel monitoring (OCM), essential technology for next-generation ROADMs. Capella was founded in 2000. Privately held and located in San Jose, California, Capella has a seasoned management team with experience from leading telecom and technology companies. Additionally Capella has an extensive intellectual property portfolio with 27 patents issued and over 30 pending. The company has been funded by leading ventures funds including Formative Ventures, Levensohn Venture Partners, Lucas Venture Partners, Rustic Canyon Partners and Silicon Valley Bank.

KAIAM Corp. designs, develops, and manufactures optical communications products. The firm offers 40G-LR4 CWDM4, 100G CWDM4+, 80Ch 50GHz Athermal AWG, and 40Ch 100 GHz Athermal AWG. The company was founded by Bardia Pezeshki in 2009 and is headquartered in Newark, CA.

WaveSplitter Technologies, Inc. is an independent provider of high-performance optical components and modules for system manufacturers worldwide seeking flexible, scalable technology platforms, advanced design capabilities, and extensive production capacity. The company develops, manufactures, and distributes fused fiber and planar lightguide circuit products, including pump laser combiners, optical channel interleavers, arrayed waveguide gratings, couplers, WDMs, and add/drop thin-film filters. Its technology platforms are designed to enable optical systems manufacturers and service providers to increase the capacity and reliability of their optical networks, extend the reach of optical signals in core networks and build flexible, scalable, and cost-effective metropolitan area networks. WaveSplitter was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Fremont, California with offices and manufacturing facilities in Taipei, Taiwan, and Shenzhen, China.

Bookham, Inc. is a developer, manufacturer and provider of optical solutions for telecommunication optical networks. It designs, manufactures and markets optical components, modules and subsystems such as transmitters, network lasers and transceivers and has facilities in United Kingdom, two in the United States, one in Canada and a manufacturing facility in Shenzhen, China. The company was founded in 1988 and is located in San Jose, CA.

Santur Corp. was a device manufacturing company of Photonic Integrated Circuits. The company was founded in 2000 and headquartered in Fremont, CA.