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Infinera is the global supplier of innovative networking solutions. Our customers include the leading service providers, data center operators, internet content providers (ICPs), cable operators, enterprises, and government agencies worldwide, including 9 of the top 10 Tier 1 service providers and 6 of the top 7 ICPs. We design, develop and deliver hardware and software for fiber-based connectivity solutions that span access, aggregation, metro, long haul, and submarine network. Our industry-leading, trendsetting edge-to-core solutions provide the foundation for many of the world’s largest and most demanding networks that generate billions in service revenue for our customers. Imagine being part of a team that is fundamentally changing the way people communicate, the way they collaborate, the way they watch TV and explore the universe through the internet. Utilizing our uniquely differentiated technology, we have created an Intelligent Transport Network with more speed, capacity and scalability than ever before. Imagine a world with unlimited bandwidth. The network of tomorrow will allow for content and creativity limited only by the imaginations of its users. If this is something that interests you, that excites you, come take a look at a team not bound by large company obstacles and bureaucracy, where an idea today can be set in motion tomorrow. Come take a look at Infinera!

Intel makes possible the most amazing experiences of the future. You may know us for our processors. But we do so much more. Intel invents at the boundaries of technology to make amazing experiences possible for business and society, and for every person on Earth. Harnessing the capability of the cloud, the ubiquity of the Internet of Things, the latest advances in memory and programmable solutions, and the promise of always-on 5G connectivity, Intel is disrupting industries and solving global challenges. Leading on policy, diversity, inclusion, education and sustainability, we create value for our stockholders, customers and society.

Lightwave Logic (LWLG) is a public material and device development company that is commercializing its proprietary organic nonlinear polymers for a variety of electro-optic devices, with primary applications in high-speed fiber-optic telecom and data communications. Our development roadmap is geared to disrupt the industry by introducing organic modulators and related photonic integrated circuits that have superior speed, lower power consumption, and smaller size than present inorganic devices. Our materials and devices are extendable into other applications, including sensors and instrumentation.

Lumenisity was formed in 2017 as a spin-out from the University of Southampton to commercialise the breakthroughs in the development of hollowcore optical fibre at Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) in the UK. We have built a team of industry leaders and experts and are looking to expand our team to help realise our goal to be the world’s premier high-performance hollowcore fibre optic cable solutions provider, offering customers reliable, deployable, low latency and high bandwidth connections that unlock new capabilities in communication networks. Our hollowcore fibre solutions are tailored for high performance data and telecoms applications in both data centres and public networks. Lumenisity’s CoreSmart® fibre optic cable solutions use a patented nested anti-resonant nodeless fibre (NANF®) hollowcore technology which operates robustly on a single mode. This provides continuous uninterrupted transmission at 1310nm and over the full C and L bands and beyond. The advanced NANF technology offers the promise of realising loss values at, or better than, conventional solid silica core fibres.

Here at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, we truly aspire to transform the world through deep research. The Cloud Infrastructure team is engaged in several cutting-edge research programs to revolutionise storage, computing, and networking at cloud scale using advanced optical technologies. To this end we have assembled an interdisciplinary team including computer scientists, machine learning experts, optical scientists, industrial designers, electronic engineers, and mechanical engineers. To be successful in such a team requires an openness and aptitude to learn some of the skills and vocabulary of the other disciplines. The global scale of the Microsoft cloud provides our team with opportunities to transform the technology underpinning modern society. For example, we are using holographic optical technology to change the way the cloud can store and rapidly access data; we are rethinking computation to improve throughput and reduce energy consumption; and we are working on next-generation data networks with higher bandwidth and greater efficiency. All these projects involve the co-design of software and hardware to achieve the best possible overall solution.

OFS is a world-leading designer, manufacturer and provider of optical fiber, fiber optic cable, connectivity, fiber-to-the-subscriber (FTTX) and specialty photonics products. We provide reliable, cost-effective solutions for a broad range of applications including telecommunications, medicine, industrial automation, sensing, government, aerospace and defense. These products help our customers meet the needs of consumers and businesses, both today and into the future. Headquartered in Norcross (near Atlanta) Georgia, U.S.A., OFS is a global provider with facilities in China, Denmark, Germany, Russia and the United States. OFS is part of Furukawa Electric Company, a multi-billion dollar leader in optical communications. Please visit www.ofsoptics.com.

SUNY Poly is engaged in leading-edge research in fields including energy and power electronics, social sciences and technology and much more. When it comes to research and development, world-class metrology or energy labs, and business incubator services, SUNY Poly has the know-how to support high-tech industrial partnerships. SUNY Poly’s unmatched wafer fabrication capabilities include state-of-the-art 300mm wafer processing and analytical technologies in 80,000 square feet of cleanroom space. SUNY Poly’s unparalleled research centers and programs include The Center of Excellence in Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnology, E2TAC, and many more. The goal of SUNY Poly Technology Transfer is to further the funding, development, protection, commercial application, deployment and licensing of discoveries, inventions and technologies developed at SUNY Poly. For additional information on research conducted at SUNY Poly, please go to https://sunypoly.edu/research.html

Thorlabs is a manufacturer of photonics components, instruments, and systems. Our vast product portfolio includes over 20,000 items, ranging from optics and optomechanical positioning components to imaging systems. Thorlabs has extended its core competencies in an effort to play an ever-increasing role serving the Photonics Industry at the research end, as well as the industrial, life science, medical, and defense segments. Headquartered in Newton, NJ, Thorlabs has grown to over 1800 employees with manufacturing and sales offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Sweden, Japan, China, and Brazil. Thorlabs encourages its employees to grow during their time with the organization by providing several benefits. Our benefits include full tuition assistance, internal advancement opportunities, health insurance (Thorlabs pays up to 75%), eye care and dental, 401k, and several wellness programs.