Simon Fafard
Broadcom, USA
Title: Optical to electrical power conversion devices with the highest efficiency ever (Eff > 60%) based on the vertical epitaxial heterostructure architecture (VHESA) design
Biography
Biography: Simon Fafard
Abstract
Simon Fafard is Co-founder & President of Broadcom a large public company that recently acquired Azastra and which has been an innovative Canadian optoelectronic company. He has been focused on optoelectronic at uSherbrooke and at Azastra, a corporation that commercialized laser power converter products based on the new VEHSA technology. He has an h-index of 45 and is the inventor of over 30 patents. He raised over $20M of private and venture capital funding and also obtained numerous research grants. He led Cyrium to become a manufacturer of one of the highest performance multijunction III-V solar cells and led Azastra to manufacture the highest performance phototransducer products. As an entrepreneur, he cumulates over 25 years of experience in Optoelectronics and Photonics while developing and commercializing numerous devices and products in the industry at Azastra, Aton, Cyrium, Alcatel Optronics, Kymata, and also in research labs at uSherbrooke, NRC, and UCSB.