Jose Pozo

Chief Technology Officer, Optica

Jose Pozo joined Optica in March 2022, and has spent more than 25 years working in photonics. He earned a PhD in quantum physics from the University of Bristol (U.K.), and an M.Sc. and B.Eng. in telecom engineering from UPNA, Spain / VUB (Belgium). Prior to joining the European Photonics Industry Consortium (EPIC) in 2015 as CTO, Jose was a Senior Photonics Technology Consultant with PNO Consultants, with some of the main accounts such as CERN, Thales, and TE Connectivity. He has worked at TNO, The Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, and as a postdoctoral researcher at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, where he contributed to the early development of EFFECT Photonics.

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Executive Forum

Focuslight: Pumping up photonics’ potential

March 28, 2024
On the heels of Focuslight Technologies’ acquisition of SUSS MicroOptics SA, Victor Xingsheng Liu, CEO and president of Focuslight, and Reinhard Voelkel, CEO of Focuslight Switzerland...
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What today’s photonics industry can learn from the quest for the blue LED

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LEDs will continue to play a significant role as the photonics industry embarks on what’s next.
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Executive Forum

Space: The growing optical frontier

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Laser communication scientists and engineers continue to unpack new research, consider obstacles from a solution perspective, and advance the work.