CIAN Industrial Affiliates Board
CIAN's Industrial Affiliates Board (IAB) has been created to support the mutual needs of industry and the Center in areas of transformative technologies for optical access and aggregation networks.
This is accomplished by providing appropriate mechanisms for technical information exchange and research collaborations involving senior management and investigators at the partner institutions that include University of Arizona, University of California, San Diego, California Institute of Technology, Columbia University Norfolk State University, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Los Angeles, Tuskegee University, University of Southern California.
Member Benefits
- Access to the CIAN test bed for prototype testing.
- Access to faculty expertise for problem solving, consultation and research collaboration.
- Access to students from the partner universities.
- Access to state-of-the-art facilities at each partner university.
- Invitation to the annual IAB Meeting that includes presentations by CIAN researchers and member companies; and opportunities to interview prospective employees.
- Participate in guiding CIAN's strategic project selection process.
- Enter into sponsored research projects with CIAN faculty.
- Graduate student and postdoctorate internship and mentoring opportunities.
- Opportunities for industrial researchers to work at partner university labs.
- Exclusive access to the CIAN website.
- Access to CIAN related intellectual property for the purpose of CIAN research within members' own facilities and for the duration of the ERC
Testbed Capabilities
The primary CIAN testbed consists of 2000 ft2 contiguous lab space and 10 modular test bays including:
- 50Gbps parallel BERT system
- Four 12.5 Gbps BERT systems
- Four 60GHz digital analyzers
- 250 WDM channel bank
- 15xSpan amplification complement
- Two independent loops
- All-Raman amplification complement
- Parametric amplification complement
- MHz-Scale optical spectral analysis
- In-house amplifier fabrication facility
- Fiber plant: 2000km SMF/NZDSF/LEAF
- Commercial OC-768 terrestrial system
- Access to transcontinental fiber plant
How to Join
The annual membership cost is $25,000, payable upon joining the CIAN IAB. This membership may be cancelled any time after the first year. For more information contact including a memorandum of understanding for joining the CIAN IAB.
BY MAIL | ON THE WEB Submit the online Memorandum of Understanding below. | BY PHONE OR EMAIL Contact one of the faculty or staff listed below to discuss membership opportunities. |
Director Dr. Nasser Peyghambarian, University of Arizona, 520-621-4649, nnp@u.arizona.edu |
Deputy Director Dr. Yeshaiahu Fainman, University of California, San Diego, 858-534-8909; fainman@ece.ucsd.edu |
Administrative Director Dr. Alan Kost, University of Arizona, 520-626-7596, akost@arizona.edu |
Industrial Collaboration and Innovation Director Daniel Carothers, University of Arizona, 520-626-0469, daniel.carothers@email.arizona.edu |
Thrust 1 Lead Dr. Alan E. Willner, University of Southern California, 213-740-4664, willner@usc.edu |
Thrust 1 Co-Lead Dr. Keren Bergman, Columbia University, 212-854-2280, bergman@ee.columbia.edu |
Thrust 2 Lead Dr. Axel Scherer, California Institute of Technology, 626-395-4691, etcher@caltech.edu |
Thrust 2 Co-Lead Dr. Ming Wu, University of California, Berkeley, 510-643-0808, mingwu@berkeley.edu |
Thrust 3 Lead Dr. Connie Chang-Hasnain, University of California, Berkeley, 510-642-4315, cch@eecs.berkeley.edu |
Thrust 3 Co-Lead Dr. Hyatt Gibbs, University of Arizona, 520-621-2941, gibbs@optics.arizona.edu |
Testbed Lead Dr. John Wissinger, University of Arizona, 520-626-4379, jwissinger@optics.arizona.edu |
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