Press Releases :: 2006
Scott Burroughs Joins Santur as Vice President of Engineering
FREMONT, CA – October 10, 2006 – Santur Corporation, the leading manufacturer of reliable tunable laser products for the global telecommunications industry, today announced the appointment of Scott Burroughs to Vice President of Engineering. Scott is a telecom industry veteran with over 28 years of experience in the optical components industry. He joins Santur from Optovia Corporation, where he served as the VP of Component Technologies. Prior to that, he was VP of Operations at Nortel Networks, where he provided leadership to the CoreTek division engaged in the manufacture of tunable lasers and tunable filters.
Scott started his career at AT&T, where he made many technical and business contributions to their Optical Components business. Scott was later recruited to Lasertron, where he led the development of new DFB laser designs and where he led the successful transfer of the licensed 980 nm pump technology from IBM Zurich into manufacture at Lasertron.
“We are very pleased that Scott has joined the Santur team, the number one tunable laser company in the world” said Dr. Richard Craig, CEO of Santur Corporation. “We are excited to have Scott help us build on our market leading position in delivering tunability to the telecom market.”
“I am very excited about the enormous opportunities
in front of Santur,” said Scott. “Having
previously been in the tunable laser market, it is
exhilarating to be at Santur at a time when the market
is rapidly accelerating and be with a company and
team that has clearly become the leading tunable
laser solution provider.”
About Santur Corporation
Headquartered in Fremont, California, Santur Corporation
is the world’s leading vertically integrated
manufacturer of high-performance tunable lasers for
metro and long-haul WDM systems. The company’s
patented DFB-array technology enables the fabrication
of broadly tunable sources at the same high performance
as fixed wavelength sources. Santur’s products
have set a new standard in the industry with their
unique combination of high-power achieved without the
use of a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA), wide
tunability with no possibility of mode hops, stability
in harsh environments, Telcordia GR-468 reliability
and value. For more information, visit www.santurcorp.com,
call 1-(866)-TUNABLE, or e-mail marketing@santurcorp.com.
Contact:
Byron Trop
Vice President of Sales & Marketing
Santur Corporation
Mobile : +1 214 727 9008
E-mail: btrop@santurcorp.com
