n-Light Photonics

(the “n” stands for nanometer…as in the wavelength of light that our lasers produced)

This company was very young, and had allot of cash to burn…that is until the financial projections for the telecom industry turned bad. That’s when 16 of us lost our jobs and the whole lot moved down to Oregon. We were trying to make a commercially viable RAMAN amplifier. It basically injects a very specific frequency of light onto optical fibers that are already carrying laser signals. If the frequencies are selected correctly, then our signal will couple its energy to the information signal, resulting in amplification of the original information signal.
	Measuring deformation as our lasers heated the surrounding package they were enclosed in.
	This was another thermal cycling experiment. I had to simulate 20,000 days (54 years) of hot/cold cycles on a series of Thermoelectric Coolers that chilled our diode lasers. This would approximate day/night conditions say out in a desert somewhere.