Emcore Promotes Blauvelt to Chief Technology Officer

Dr. Hank Blauvelt has been named chief technology officer for fiber components firm Emcore Corp.

Blauvelt joined Emcore in 2007 as chief scientist with principal responsibility for the development of technologies for linear fiber optic applications. His contributions include development of Linear Externally Modulated Laser (LEML) technology, advanced dispersion compensation techniques for 1550-nm distributed feedback fiber links and linear low-noise optical receivers.

Prior to joining Emcore, Blauvelt was chief technology officer for Xponent, and earlier worked for Ortel Corp.

Blauvelt has a doctorate in applied physics from the Calirfornia Institute of Technology and has been awarded more than 60 U.S. patents.

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