Stephen R. Forrest

Part of The National Academies of Science, the National Academy of Engineering operates as a professional membership organization. The company is based in Washington.

The American Physical Society is an organization that offers information on various prizes, awards, fellowships, scholarships, and grants related to physics. The non-profit company is based in College Park, MD. The company also provides programs that aim to improve physics education, impact policy makers, increase diversity, and inform the public.

Sensors Unlimited, Inc. manufactures fiber-optic equipment for high-speed computer networks. Its products include detector arrays for wavelength division multiplexing channel monitors, cameras, and imaging products. The company was founded by Marshall J. Cohen in 1991 and is headquartered in Princeton, NJ.

Part of Viavi Solutions, Inc., Epitaxx, Inc. designs and manufactures semiconductor optical detectors and receivers. The company is based in West Trenton, NJ. The company was founded by Gregory H. Olsen. Epitaxx was acquired by Viavi Solutions, Inc. from Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd. on November 15, 1999 for $400 million.

CyOptics Acquisition Corp. designs, develops and produces integrated indium phosphide solutions. The company is headquartered Breinigsville, PA.

PD-LD, Inc. manufactures laser products. It offers stabilized lasers, fiber optics, and VBG elements. The firm's fiber optic component products include fiber-coupled coaxial Lasers, LEDs, and recievers (including photodiodes and APDs), high-power pulsed lasers, bidirectional devices, laser combiners, triplexers, and specialty transceivers. The company was founded by Dr. Vladimir S. Ban in 1993 and is headquartered in Pennington, NJ.

ASIP, headquartered in Somerset, N.J., is an emerging leader in the development of advanced photonic integrated circuits, including high-speed laser sources and high-sensitivity photodetectors at both 10Gb/s and 40Gb/s. ASIP is the first company to provide integrated lasers at 10Gb/s transmission rates without requiring the use of thermoelectric coolers, enabling the rapid deployment of 10Gb/s optical technology throughout the communications industry. ASIP's Assymetric TwinGuide™ (ATG) technology technology is a highly-scalable platform for monolithic photonic integration and delivers unprecedented levels of functional integration, low cost, and world-class optical performance.

The National Center for Integrated Photonic Technology operates a photonics research center. The private company is based in Quincy, MA.