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Effect Photonics co-founder Boudewijn Docter steps down

Paul van Gerven
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Boudewijn Docter has announced his resignation as president and director of Effect Photonics, the optical-transceiver company he co-founded in 2009. โ€œAlthough the adventure is far from over, I feel that the team is ready to guide the company through the next cycle of growth. For me, this is a natural time to hand over my daily activities in the management team to my colleague Roberto Marcoccia and his team,โ€ Docter writes in a post on Linkedin. He adds that heโ€™ll take up โ€œa new challenge elsewhere,โ€ although heโ€™ll โ€œcontinue to represent Effect Photonics in the Dutch photonics ecosystem.โ€

Effect Photonics develops and markets optical transceivers for 5G and data center applications, which require more and more bandwidth. Integrated photonics technology can do this is at a significantly lower energy cost. Effect Photonicsโ€™ products are based on a single InP-based photonic integrated circuit (PIC), featuring dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) functionality, which increases capacity, and tunable lasers, which enable automatic channel tuning.

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