Dr. Salman Abdullah is currently the Photonics Product Development Lead at QuantLase Lab LLC. He brings specialised expertise in Semiconductor and Photonics chip technology prototyping, productization and commercialisation from premier American, British and Swiss research organizations and multinational corporations. His interest lies in rapid prototyping of research ideas to connect them with global product demand, execute productization and commercialization of research projects. He holds firsthand industry experience in Semiconductor and Photonics chip technology development and has skills on Product Development Process, Data Analysis, Business Communication, Technical skills on Failure Analysis, SEM, FIB, TEM and has industry experience of Process development of wet and dry etch processes. He has a firsthand working experience of working in high pressure and dynamic industry roles with a sharp focus on quality assurance, customer satisfaction, project documentation and career counselling and mentoring
Prior to joining QuantLase, he worked at Lumentum Technology as a Photonic Integrated Chip Architect (2021 till 2025) for primary revenue generating state-of-the-art industry technology such as 130G CDM and 200G HBCDM high performance telecom chips. In this role he successfully delivered on volume chip delivery for leading clients in excess of 10 M USD.
Prior to Lumentum, he was a part of the Photonic Integrated Chip technology team at an American multinational technology firm, Seagate Technology from 2018 till 2021 where he played a key role in integration of a laser chip onto hard drive - this was the state-of-the-art Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) data storage technology program - this has now been commercialised as Seagate Exos M Hard drive from its Mozaic 3+ platform
Salman was a part of a British research organization National Epitaxy Facility Sheffield from 2015 until 2018 from the platform of Sheffield University UK where he carried out pioneering work on technology development of Semiconductor Photodetector chips for autonomous driving and sensing applications. The technology has now been commercialized by British technology firm Phlux Technology.
With a track record of successfully executing on chip technology programs, Salman is passionate about scaling innovation on chip scale and connecting regional demands for innovation to the global design and manufacturing ecosystem. Salman has also consulted Government and local investment agencies i.e. a premier Dutch investment agency InvestNL where he advised them on PIC technology landscape, business models, IDM vs PurePlay Foundry competition and associated industry dynamics.
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