Dr. Venkatesan commented: "I am very pleased to see Mohan join our Board. He brings a new dimension to the Board with his unique GaAs foundry experience serving commercial and defense markets for high-powered laser diode solutions. He is the latest addition to our world-class technical team on the Board of Directors that we have assembled over the past 6 months. We look forward to working with Mohan and the Board as we continue the drive from 'lab-to-fab' as part of our monetization strategy."
Mr. Warrior restarted the company in 2004 and established Alfalight as a leading provider of high powered laser diode solutions in both commercial and defense segments. The company successfully sold the commercial business in 2013. Mr. Warrior continues to run the retained defense and security segments of Alfalight which is now focused on providing solid-state laser systems for targeting, tracking and illumination applications to the US military. Under Mr. Warrior's leadership, Alfalight has grown profitably and is anticipating a value added M&A transaction during 2015. Prior to joining Alfalight, Mr. Warrior's career included 15 years at Motorola Semiconductors (now Freescale) where he led the test and assembly operations, a group of 3500 employees, in the US, Scotland and Korea.
Just to remind everyone. POET’s optical thyristor is what the military has been focused on. These devices can be built as an array for detection (of all energy levels) and within milliseconds can be biased to a lase function from the same array. The military financed that device for 15 years so interesting to me to see this new director as per the highlighted comment above.
