Ashok Krishnamoorthy
20 - 24 July 2025
Hilton Long Beach
Long Beach, California USA
Events
Ashok Krishnamoorthy
Axalume, Inc., USA
Integrated, Tunable Multi-wavelength Quantum-dot Semiconductor Lasers
Quantum dots are to lasers, what CMOS is to electronics. In this talk, we will review the compelling benefits of quantum dot lasers and recent performance improvements made in quantum dot semiconductor optical amplifiers, single-wavelength distributed feedback lasers and multi-wavelength combs.
About the Speaker
Ashok is Chairman and CEO of Axalume Inc, a photonics startup developing tunable lasers and comb lasers for interconnect and sensing applications. He was formerly an Oracle Architect and its Chief Technologist, Photonics responsible for developing and executing on optical interconnect technology for Oracle hardware platforms. Previously, he was a Distinguished Engineer & Director at Sun Microsystems responsible for advanced optical interconnect and silicon photonics development, prior to that President and CTO of AraLight, a Bell Labs spinout that developed CMOS-VCSEL datacom fiber-optic transceivers and before that a founding member of technical staff of the Optical Data Networks research dept. at Bell Labs. He is a distinguished member of Tau Beta Pi and is a fellow of Optica and the IEEE.
