He is a member of the National Academy
of Engineering, as well as a Fellow of the IEEE and the Optical Society of
America (OSA).

Applications of optoelectronic technology can be found in telecommunications, computer and office equipment, and the home electronic industries.

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Backed by Bell
Labs research and development, Lucent uses its strengths in mobility, optical,
software, data and voice networking technologies, as well as services, to
create new revenue-generating opportunities for its customers, while enabling
them to quickly deploy and better manage their networks. "We are excited about the prospect of what we envision as a
critical building block of next-generation WDM fiber access and other cost-
sensitive high-bandwidth applications ."
Peleton will be demonstrating the compact, multi-wavelength laser along
with its existing TM3100C/TM3050C multi-wavelength laser sources,
QTM100C/QTM050C channel controllers and variety of other fiber optic test
equipment such as tunable sources, ASE sources and three-wavelength PON
sources in Booth 3435 at the OFC/NFOEC conference and exposition in the
Anaheim Convention Center, March 7 to 9, 2006. With broad expertise in optical technologies,
the Peleton team offers innovative WDM multi-channel laser source and control
equipment at significant cost, size and scalability advantages over existing
multi-wavelength technologies.

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Alferness has authored more than 100 papers, holds more than 35 patents
and has authored five book chapters.

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Alferness, senior vice
president , Optical Networking and Photonics Research, received the 2005 IEEE
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Photonics Award.D.

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Products of the industry include components such as optic fibers, and equipment such as optical scanners, disk drives, and digital cameras.

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For more
information about Bell Labs, visit its Web site at http://www.com.lucent.

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Among his notable achievements , Alferness invented and demonstrated a
family of integrated optics devices in lithium niobate, including some of the
first tunable wavelength filters and optical switch/modulators that form the
basis for many of today's wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) optical
networking systems. National Medals of Technology(R).

(Descpription derived from the Optoelectronics Industry Development Association's Web Site, http://www.

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He is a past president of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics
Society (LEOS ), and has served on the board of directors of OSA. He also serves on the European
Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) Executive Management Committee.

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The
award, sponsored by IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, honors outstanding
achievements in the field of photonics, and was presented at the Optical Fiber
Conference (OFC) being held from March 6-11 in Anaheim, Calif.

Lucent Technologies designs and delivers the systems, services and
software that drive next-generation communications networks.com

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, Lucent Technologies'
(NYSE: LU) Bell Labs today announced that Rod C.

Alferness was honored for "seminal contributions to enabling photonics
technologies and for visionary leadership in their application to networks and
systems.
Since joining Bell Labs in 1976, after receiving a Ph. Company to expand product applications beyond test and measurement

OTTAWA, March 1, 2006 - Peleton Photonic Systems, a supplier
of advanced photonic systems for fiber optic test and measurement, networking
and photonic sensing, today announced that it will demonstrate a breakthrough
DWDM multi-channel laser technology that allows the simultaneous generation of
multiple DFB-quality laser channels in a more compact, scalable and cost-
effective way than ever before.
Peleton, a leader in high-end multi-wavelength laser products addressing
test and measurement challenges, intends to leverage the new technology to
reach out to the broader optical communications market.peleton.

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S. This technology complements other
emerging innovations in integrated optics and silicon photonics that will
completely change the landscape of communications and computing.

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in physics from
the University of Michigan, Alferness has held a variety of positions,
including Chief Technology Officer and Advanced Technology and Architecture
vice president , Optical Networking Group, and head of the Photonics Networks
Research Group, Bell Labs.

About Peleton Photonic Systems

Peleton is a privately held developer and manufacturer of multi-
wavelength laser sources for applications in optical test and measurement,
networking and photonic sensing.

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" Photonic technologies generally include lasers, optical switches
and other network elements that transmit signals in the form of light over
optical fibers.J.

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Bell Labs ' Physicist Rod Alferness Receives 2005 IEEE Photonics Award at Optical Fiber Conference (OFC)

In addition, his work has resulted in the demonstration
of novel waveguide electro-optical devices and circuits, widely tunable lasers
and photonic switching systems.
Alferness was a co-originator and Bell Labs' program director of the DARPA
(U. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) -- sponsored MONET program
that demonstrated the feasibility of wavelength switched optical networks in
the mid-1990s. Bell Labs
scientists have received six Nobel Prizes in Physics, nine U. Lucent's customer
base includes communications service providers, governments and enterprises
worldwide.

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He was
Editor of the Journal of Lightwave Technology. For more information on Lucent Technologies , which has
headquarters in Murray Hill, N.

Peleton demonstrates a scalable continuous wave laser array for optical headend applications

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His ongoing leadership and sustained contributions
to the opto-electronics field, including many novel optical transmission
technologies, have been a key part of defining today's optical networks, as
well as helping to define tomorrow's next generation of optical networks.S.

About Bell Labs and Lucent Technologies
Bell Labs is the leading source of new communications technologies.

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ANAHEIM, Calif.

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The optoelectronic industry produces technologies such as optical semiconductor technology, fiber optics, and laser-based optical storage technologies .

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Throughout his career, Alferness has been a leader in optical switching
and modulation technology and architecture, championing a vision of optical
layer networking that supports higher capacity and lower complexity for
communications networks. National
Medals of Science and eight U.
"This inherent flexibility offered by our compact multi-wavelength laser
brings with it the potential of disrupting the economics of communications
networking in the near future," said Richard Pepin , President and CEO, Peleton
Photonic Systems.

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It
has generated more than 30,000 patents since 1925 and has played a pivotal
role in inventing or perfecting key communications technologies, including
transistors, digital networking and signal processing, lasers and fiber-optic
communications systems , communications satellites, cellular telephony,
electronic switching of calls, touch-tone dialing , and modems., USA, visit http://www. The form factors and
economics of the technology make it suitable for emerging applications in
optical communications such as Fiber-To-The-Home, WDM-PON and hybrid cable
headends.

Optoelectronics is the joint application of optics and
electronics.

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