Information on SDLI CEO Don Scifres
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Information:
Citation:
"For outstanding research in high power semiconductor lasers, the transformation of these research results into
commercial products, and extraordinary accomplishment via founding and leading a successful and growing
new business based on these products."
Background:
Dr. Scifres received his BS degree from Purdue University in 1968 and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois
in 1972. From 1972 to 1983 he was a Xerox Research Fellow and manager of Opto-Electronics at the Xerox
Palo Alto Research Center.
Dr. Scifres demonstrated the first distributed feedback injection feedback laser and the first cw laser diode
arrays among many contributions to the fields of semiconductor lasers, fiber optics and optoelectronic
integrated circuits. He has been issued over 100 US patents and has published over 300 technical articles
including contributions to the books Molecular Beam Epitaxy (Pergammon Press, 1980) and Diode Laser Arrays
(Cambridge University Press, 1994). He has received the Jack Morton Medal for work on distributed feedback
injection lasers and high power laser diode arrays, the IEEE LEOS Award for Engineering Excellence, and in
1996 received the Optical Society of America - SIT Edward H. Land Medal.
Dr. Scifres is a founder, president and chief executive officer of SDL, Inc. a manufacturer of optoelectronic
integrated circuits, semiconductor lasers, fiber optic related products and optoelectronic based systems with
headquarters in San Jose, California. He is a fellow of the IEEE and OSA, a member of the APS, and is
President of the Lasers and Electro Optics Manufacturers Association, and Past President of the IEEE LEOS.
Kat
Don is a great scientist and CEO with a great management team, a winning combination. (IMO, of course) Flamboyance is not all its cracked up to be.
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