Horsham, PA--Optoelectronics packaging company Avo Photonics announced that Sven Mahnkopf joined the company as an optical program manager. "Dr. Mahnkopf's vast knowledge of optical systems and optoelectronic designs will further strengthen the Avo Photonics team," said Dr. Tom Haslett, CTO of Avo Photonics. "With our continued success in volume optical component contract manufacturing, his familiarity in design for volume production is going to prove invaluable to our customers and we gladly welcome his talents."
Mahnkopf has ten years of professional experience developing optoelectronic devices and in project management. He comes to Avo from OptiComp Corporation, where he served as device engineering manager. At OptiComp, Mahnkopf led teams of Ph.D.‐level engineers to design optoelectronic devices including VCSELs and photodetector arrays. Other professional achievements include authoring four patents, one book chapter, more than 20 scientific publications, and seven invited papers. Prior to OptiComp, he was at Mesophotonics Ltd., Julius ‐ Maximilians University of Würzburg, Germany, and Infineon Technologies Pte. Ltd.
Avo Photonics provides custom design and contract manufacturing services to customers in the military, aerospace, medical, communications, and commercial markets and calls itself a one‐stop shop for photonic packaging services.
SOURCE: Avo Photonics; www.avophotonics.com/Press%20Releases/Avo%20Photonics%20Names%20Optical%20Program%20Manager.pdf
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Gail Overton | Senior Editor (2004-2020)
Gail has more than 30 years of engineering, marketing, product management, and editorial experience in the photonics and optical communications industry. Before joining the staff at Laser Focus World in 2004, she held many product management and product marketing roles in the fiber-optics industry, most notably at Hughes (El Segundo, CA), GTE Labs (Waltham, MA), Corning (Corning, NY), Photon Kinetics (Beaverton, OR), and Newport Corporation (Irvine, CA). During her marketing career, Gail published articles in WDM Solutions and Sensors magazine and traveled internationally to conduct product and sales training. Gail received her BS degree in physics, with an emphasis in optics, from San Diego State University in San Diego, CA in May 1986.