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My name is Jeremiah Hebding . My name

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is Siti Haija Binti . My name is Mike

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Leo . My name is Amy Klan . I'm the

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director of Program Management for Aim

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Photonics and I'm a senior engineer for

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derivatives and photonics development .

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I am an Aim Derivatives engineer and

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I'm the VP at Suny Pauly , but I'm also

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the CEO of a photonics .

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What is great about in photonics is

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that it's a collaboration of the

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brightness that allows people to do

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information sharing and drives the

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silicon photonics to pathway to volume

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manufacturing . So what we're building

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within photonics is we're building the

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chips that run on photons or light

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rather than electrons or electricity

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and this helps the chips be faster ,

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hold more data and run on lower power .

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My role here is when we receive design

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from the customer , we first do a

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design review check after that , we

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support the manufacturing of the wafer .

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So the wafers are raw substrates and

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you build multiple you know , 65 to

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hundreds of devices at one time . Once

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that large wafer is complete , it be

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shipped to a packaging facility and

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then that will be further processed and

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then cut into smaller chips . And then

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those individual chips will be put into

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computers or cell phones or other

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electronic devices that would be using

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those . The most neo term application

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for photonics has to do with data

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centers , server needs for companies

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such as Amazon Google , Facebook . They

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have huge server farms that take up

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tons of physical land , tons of energy .

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So what our Datacom program is seeking

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to do is to create these chips so that

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we can reduce this footprint in America

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and the world .

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What we can build is sensor elements

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that are based on liar . So the light

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equivalent of radar that we have much

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better accuracy in terms of distance

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determination , as well as through the

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Doppler effect , they can tell which

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way something is coming . Is it coming

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at you at ? What speed is it coming at

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you ? And that allows you to have a

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sufficient level of centralization

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around the call that eventually it will

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contribute significantly to self

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driving calls . Technology like this .

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It's revolutionary . Everybody has a

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cell phone , everybody has a computer ,

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but nobody knows what the next big

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thing is going to be . And photonics

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could be that enabler that would enable

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life changing things . Whether it's in

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medical , whether it's in sensing ,

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whether it's in computing the next

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thing that would change people's day to

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day lives or enable things that we

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might not even be able to imagine at

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this point . What I'm I love about my

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job is um it's a new technology that is

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not in the market yet . So lots of the

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work that I'm involved is supporting

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the research . And then I see that as a

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future also because like for America to

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become again a technology leader , this

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is the next it ,

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but it is really great to see all of

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this activity happening across the

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United States . We get the best and the

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brightest from our country contributing

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to this program . And when I made my

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transition here to Suny Poli and

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working in the A tonics institute , I

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was able to really work with a vast

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array of different people , not

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necessarily focused on a boardroom's

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bottom line , but more on the

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innovation and the development of new

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technologies . For me , it's really

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self satisfying job . I mean , I don't

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have to have my boss to pat on the back

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because the work itself give me the

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satisfaction aim photonics is it's a

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great opportunity to stand up a once in

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a lifetime institute . I'm proud to be

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able to be a part of it .