Mark Wade
Organisation: Ayar Labs Role: President, Chief Scientist, and co-founder
Mark Wade is chief scientist of Ayar Labs, which specialises in chip-to-chip optical connectivity, and was part of the team that demonstrated the first microprocessor to communicate to the outside world with light, recently featured in Nature. It is not surprising then that Wade told
The Register earlier this year that he expects optical waveguides to begin supplanting the copper traces on PCBs within the next decade. In April, Ayar Labs announced it had secured $130 million to drive the commercialisation of its optical I/O solution
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Based in: San Francisco Bay Area, USA Education: PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder
for new computing architectures. In June, one of those funding partners, Nvidia, began co-developing a new artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure with Ayar based on its optical I/O technology. This is designed to eliminate the bottlenecks associated with system bandwidth, power consumption, latency, and reach, dramatically improving existing system architectures. Wade has a large selection of journal
articles, conference papers and articles published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) over the past seven years.
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Organisation: Phaseform Role: CEO and co-founder
Stefan Weber has a long-standing background in optics and photonics. He was on the management board of two successful start-ups: SwissLitho and
modum.io. Before that, he was product manager at Jenoptik, creating high-precision wavefront sensors for the semiconductor equipment industry. He did his post-doc at the EPFL in Switzerland developing new types of deformable mirrors and believes ‘affordable, easy to use, high-performance correction devices will make their way onto every researcher’s optics table and will be part of the design of many optical instruments’. ‘Nobel laureate Eric Betzig predicts that
Based in: Freiburg, Germany Education: PhD, physics, FU Berlin
in microscopy, adaptive optics (AO) will become as widespread as it is already in astronomy, and I expect the same to happen to other fields as well,’ said Weber. However, he sees three challenges: ‘First,
the hardware must become customisable and affordable; second, the integration of AO components into optical systems must be seamless; and third, the user experience must be right, meaning the technology must become virtually invisible to the end customer, microscopy users.’ Weber plans to attend Photonics West, the EPIC agm in Helsinki in March and OPIE 2023 in Yokohama in April.
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