信 息 技 术 研 究 院 学 术 报 告

报告题目：开创以人为本—光电技术与产业新纪元

报 告 人：曹小凡博士，Arasor公司总裁兼首席执行官

报告时间：2005年12月15(周四)下午14：00

报告地点：信息大楼（FIT）多功能厅

主办单位：清华大学信息技术研究院　

联 系 人：罗鸣 62773011 luoming@tsinghua.edu.cn

Abstract:

In the last decade, the optoelectronic industry has been through the most dramatic change in the history of industry evolution.  Yet this young industry is rebounding stronger than ever.  In the new era of application driven market environments, optoelectronic industry is experiencing a fundamental paradigm shift toward human-centric technology development.  The new convergence of communication and consumer applications is creating enormous opportunities for optoelectronic innovations to made direct impact in improving human quality of life.  Will China lead or follow in this new technological race?

Biography:

Dr. Cao leads Arasor's management team and has more than 20 years experience in optics, communications and signal processing. Prior to co-founding Arasor, Simon was a founder of Avanex Corporation and served as Chief Technology Officer, Senior Vice President of Business Development and a member of the Board of Directors. Prior to Avanex, Simon was a founder of Oplink Communications and served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing and established the company's wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) product line. Over the span of his career, Simon was directly responsible for the invention and commercialization of revolutionary fiber-optic products such as the fiber amplifier, WDM transmission and >10Gb/s high-speed optical transmission. In 1999, Forbes named Dr. Cao the "Godfather" of WDM technology. Simon is also the author of "Cao's Law", the optical corollary of Moore's Law in electronics, which states that WDM will spread more and more finer and finer channels of light, each using less and less power, across an optical fiber. Earlier in his career, Simon was also one of the first employees of E-Tek Dynamics.

Dr. Cao holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in both electrical engineering and physics from the University of Southern California. He also chairs the research committee on the board of USC's engineering school and holds 38 U.S. and international patents with an additional 64 patents pending.