Let's first say that this could be consided a "dot connecting initiative brain fart".

Neverthelss, following the last CC, I dedicated most of my attention to the US photonics initiave, i.e institutes, and I had quite some fun.

So, here we go:

First some abstracts from a 2014 article about POET:

"The handwriting has been on the wall since the 1980s, according to former Bell Labs scientist, now co-founder and chief scientist at POET, Geoff Taylor"

"Taylor had moved on to the University of Connecticut for several years before the Bell Labs patents expired on III-V chips. It was there that he resurrected the Bell Labs work, but transformed it from a single n-channel-only electrical/optical (EO) technology into a dual-channel electrical/optical technology aimed at extending Moore's Law indefinitely well into the future for complementary electrical/optical circuits."

"He renamed the technology Planar Opto Electronic Technology (POET). The University of Connecticut is now assigned the patents, with POET its exclusive licensee. "

Source:

http://www.poet-technologies.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/EETimes-Moores-Law-12Sep2014.pdf

Now, please meet the reason behind my "non-educated" guess about a potential liaison with POET.

http://www.ieo.nctu.edu.tw/download.php?filename=1686_46c8466b.pdf&dir=archive&title=Thomas+L++Koch+簡介

Please do your own DD