Personnel
Dr. Paul A. Morton
- Chief Executive Officer
- Chief Technology Officer
BSC Electrical Engineering, University of Bath, England
MEng Electrical Engineering, University of Bath, England
PhD Electrical Engineering, University of Bath, England
Resume
Dr. Morton is an Internationally renowned photonics visionary with over 20 years experience in research and product development. He was involved in early R&D on RF photonics while at Marconi Defense Systems in the 1980’s. As a member of technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories in the 1990’s, Dr. Morton carried out pioneering research on high speed photonic devices, including directly modulated lasers (world records achieved), mode-locked pulse sources combining fiber Bragg gratings (FBG) and high performance gain chips, and integrated devices including electroabsorption modulated lasers (EMLs), as well as the system applications of these devices. Dr. Morton played a key role as Director of the active photonic components department at CIENA Corporation, a pioneer of DWDM transmission systems, carrying out R&D and qualifying all active photonic components for CIENA systems.
In 2002, Dr. Morton founded Morton Photonics Inc., where he is the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer. This successful photonics R&D company has supported numerous device and system level companies, in areas including: photonic device and sub-system design, testing, simulation, qualification, system level applications and test-beds, test facility design and build, technology and roadmap planning, marketing advice and executive management positions Dr. Morton has also provided advice and due diligence to money management firms and on intellectual property rights issues.
Dr. Morton is the principal investigator (PI) for Morton Photonics on multiple SBIR, STTR and other DoD funded R&D programs, where he leads the program, coordinates with subcontractors for fabrication of novel photonic components, and carries out device and system level testing at Morton Photonics in-house photonics lab.
Dr. Morton was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) in 2011 in recognition for ‘contributions to optical transmitters’. He was elected a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA) in 2005 in recognition for ‘fundamental contributions to high-speed optical transmitters and implementation into DWDM transmission systems’.
Jill L. Morton
- Chief Operating Officer
- Research Analyst
BSC Electrical Engineering, University of Bath, England
MEng Electrical Engineering, University of Bath, England
Jill Morton is a founder and the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Morton Photonics Inc. She was previously a microwave systems engineer in the Electronic Warfare Division of Marconi Defence Systems Ltd, Stanmore, England, where she worked on a number of programs including the Strategic Defense Initiative, Decoys and RF jamming systems. Jill carries out the day to day management of Morton Photonics.
Dr. Si Hyung Cho
- Research and Development Engineer
BSC Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Maryland
MS Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Maryland
PhD Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Maryland
Dr. Cho has extensive experience in the research, development, and bringing to market of high power semiconductor lasers, gain chips and semiconductor optical amplifiers. His PhD and post-doctoral research were focused on the design, fabrication and packaging of high power semiconductor tapered lasers, amplifiers, external cavity tunable lasers and broadband optical light sources at 1550nm and 980nm.
He joined the Lucent Technologies Optoelectronics Business Unit where he was a high power pump laser chip and module designer, creating market leading pump lasers for use in EDFA and Raman optical amplifiers. Dr. Cho joined Ciena Corporation where he worked in the active photonic components department. He was responsible for high power pump lasers; he created specifications for high power pump lasers, tested devices, and ensured their correct operation in Ciena's system. Dr. Cho was also responsible for the testing and qualification of DWDM DFB single wavelength and tunable wavelength lasers for use in ultra-long-haul optical communication systems, and for 2.5 Gbps and 10 Gbps electro-absorption modulated lasers (EML). Dr. is widely published in International journals and conferences with papers related to high power semiconductor laser devices. He has 8 issued US patents focused on high power semiconductor lasers and their use in optical amplifiers and optical communication systems.
Dr. Cho has extensive entrepreneurial experience, first at Ciena, and then at Potomac Optronics Inc., where he was Vice President/Chief Technical Officer responsible for the development of semiconductor based high power lasers. The high power lasers were developed for use in a variety of markets, with a focus on the providing low cost, semiconductor based medical lasers. He has recently extended his R&D expertise as a research scientist at the University of Maryland, working in a variety of areas including biophotonics sensors, Mid-IR semiconductor lasers, Solar Cells and LEDs.
Additional highly skilled technical personnel provide support to Morton Photonics on an as needed basis.
