William H. Diamond

E-Tek Dynamics, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells fiber optic components and communication devices. Its products include WDM components and modules, isolators, couplers, and micro optic integrated components. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

WaveSplitter Technologies, Inc. is an independent provider of high-performance optical components and modules for system manufacturers worldwide seeking flexible, scalable technology platforms, advanced design capabilities, and extensive production capacity. The company develops, manufactures, and distributes fused fiber and planar lightguide circuit products, including pump laser combiners, optical channel interleavers, arrayed waveguide gratings, couplers, WDMs, and add/drop thin-film filters. Its technology platforms are designed to enable optical systems manufacturers and service providers to increase the capacity and reliability of their optical networks, extend the reach of optical signals in core networks and build flexible, scalable, and cost-effective metropolitan area networks. WaveSplitter was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Fremont, California with offices and manufacturing facilities in Taipei, Taiwan, and Shenzhen, China.

Auxora, Inc. produces and supplies optical thin film filters. The firm's filters can be used in optical telecommunication, data communication, CATV, bio-technology, high power lasers, instruments and other different markets. Its products include filters, packaged device and module. The company was founded by Xinxiong Zhang in January 2000 and is headquartered in Duarte, CA.

Xradia, Inc. designs and manufactures 3D X-ray microscopes (XRM) for industrial and research applications.The company was founded in 2000 and it is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA.

Part of Corning, Inc., Lasertron, Inc. is a company that makes optical components. The company is based in Burlington, MA. The company was founded by Jorge M. Fernandes. Lasertron was acquired by Oak Industries, Inc. on September 07, 1995 for $112 million.

Part of Trask (Spencer) Securities, Neptec, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and markets switches and other devices for communications networks. The company is based in Jefferson City, TN.

Denselight Semiconductors Pte Ltd. designs, manufactures and delivers photonic optical light source products and solutions to the communications, medical, instrumentations, industrial, defense and security industries. Its products include broadband light sources, narrow linewidth laser and active and passive components. The company was founded by Yee-Loy Lam and Yuen-Chuen Chan in 2000 and is headquartered in Singapore.

Versawave Technologies, Inc. provides modulation components for data and bandwidth optical transmission applications. Its products include amplitude modulators and polarization modulators. The company was founded by Nicolas August Fleming Jaeger, Jeffrey D. Bull and Alan Guest in 2011 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.

SETI Institute operates as a non-profit organization that provides scientific research, education, and public outreach services. It offers instrument development, outreach programs, research experience for undergraduates, and weekly colloquium. The company was founded in November 1984 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.