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Louay Eldada, Chief Technology Officer, Dupont Photonics

Louay Eldada, Chief Technology Officer DuPont Photonics Louay Eldada is Chief Technology Officer of DuPont Photonics, Wilmington, MA. He holds a Ph.D. in integrated optics from Columbia University. He was at Honeywell (formerly AlliedSignal) for 6 years during which time he founded the Telecom Photonics business unit and managed its research arm. He held the same position when this business was acquired by Corning in 1999. In 2000, he founded Telephotonics. He served as its Chief Technology Officer and Vice Chairman until 2002 when its assets were acquired by DuPont and formed the core of DuPont Photonics. Dr. Eldada has authored over 120 technical papers, 6 books, has presented over 70 keynote and invited talks, has organized 30 industry conferences such as OFC, NFOEC, and IPR, holds 27 patents in the area of integrated optics, and is the recipient of 24 technical awards. He is a senior member of IEEE, OSA, and SPIE.

About DuPont Photonics: DuPont Photonics, a premier optical components company, designs for the DWDM market and other segments of the global telecommunications and data communications optical network. DuPont Photonics is focused on its core strength of highly integrated tunable optical components that cost-effectively address the demand for bandwidth and agility in optical networks. Our enabling technology will allow DWDM systems providers to offer low cost, flexible, all-optical solutions to CLECs, ILECs, and ISPs.