All right, according to the 7 recommandations I got for my post, this was definitely considered by the community to be a "brain fart".

Well sorry about that, but I'll share more of my "smelly initiative".

The Chair of AIM photonics Technoloy Advisory Board, who is now is in charge of assesing which projects should be joint-developped within the newly IP-IMI.

Why I believe this is of interest? Well, Koch has been quite a notable person at Bell Labs and definitely managed the optoelectronics research efforts when Geoff Taylor worked there.

Please remember that Taylor didn't start from scratch.

Once the Bell Labs patent expired he took the basic concept to a totally "newly-disrupting" level.

Abstratcs from the link I recently provided (Koch's resume):

Chief Technical Officer, Optoelectronics Products Director, Semiconductor Photonics Research Department Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies Holmdel and Murray Hill, New Jersey; Breinigsville, Pennsylvania 1996 -1999

• Responsible to lead Bell Lab’s multi-location research activities in semiconductor photonics (50- 60 MTS & consultants).

• Research activities encompassed III-V optoelectronics: lasers, detectors, modulators, amplifiers, photonic integrated circuits, associated microfabrication technologies, and advanced optoelectronic subsystems.

• Management oversight included substantial facilities consolidations and construction while maintaining full operation of microfabrication capabilities, including extensive multi-location III-V epitaxy and clean room facilities, comprehensive materials and device characterization facilities, Bell Lab’s direct-write e-beam lithography facilities, and major device and process modeling/theory programs.

• As member of Senior Leadership Team of the Optoelectronics Products Business Unit, provided guidance in selecting new technology opportunities, product definition and manufacturing platforms.

• Managed joint Research/Business Unit activities to accelerate new product time to market and best-in-class platform capability.

• Enable low-volume sampling of new component/subsystem functionality to Lucent’s Systems Research, Optical Network Group, and Optoelectronics Products customers.

Head, Supervisor, and MTS, Photonic Circuits/Electronic Device Research Departments Electronics/Photonics Research Laboratories, Bell Labs, Holmdel 1982 -1995

• Responsible to lead Department (13-16 MTS, 9-15 PMTS, visitors, consultants) in research and prototyping of lasers and advanced photonic devices for optical communications.

• Activities included III-V lasers and optoelectronics, first generation of photonic integrated circuits, highspeed III-V electronics, and microfabrication technology.

• Extensive evaluation of tunable coherent and WDM sources, expanded-beam lasers, wavelength conversion technologies, and semiconductor amplifiers.

• Department maintained full microfab capabilities including Bell Lab’s direct-write e-beam facilities, extensive III-V growth, and high-speed characterization facilities.

• Responsibilities also include shared management of divisional clean room facility.

• Earlier personal research activities as MTS centered on design, fabrication, device and system modeling of InP/InGaAsP optoelectronic devices with particular emphasis on dynamic and spectral properties of single longitudinal mode semiconductor lasers.

"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"