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Ruth Ann Mullen is listed as Technology Innovator @ Photon Futures, LLC | Business Development, Invention at Photon Futures, LLC, based in Bellevue, Washington, United States. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at etaphase.com, phone signal with area code 425, and a matched LinkedIn profile for Ruth Ann Mullen.
Ruth Ann Mullen previously worked as Founder at Photon Futures, Llc and CTO at Etaphase, Incorporated. Ruth Ann Mullen holds B.S., Applied Physics from Caltech.
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As the CTO of Etaphase, a university spin-out company that specializes in physics-based modeling and topological design optimization of structures for controlling electromagnetic fields, I lead the team-building, invention, mentoring, program management, and external research collaborations for various applications spanning datacenter interconnects and architectures, machine learning, sensing, energy storage, and displays. With over 11 years of experience in this role, I have successfully secured and executed multiple government contracts and grants, as well as established strategic partnerships with industry leaders and academic institutions.My technical versatility and domain expertise extend across the electromagnetic spectrum from "dc to daylight", having worked on projects involving optical communications, photonics, nanotechnology, microfabrication, and high-density energy sources. I have also founded and run Photon Futures, LLC, a technology innovation and consulting company, since 2005, where I have provided CTO roles, technology roadmapping, and business development for various clients in the networking and communications sector. Additionally, I have multiple patents and publications in the fields of optical and optical networking technology, hyperuniform disordered materials, and harvesting and aggregating low photonic energy. My specialties include innovation, intellectual property strategy and valuation, strategic technology planning, and technical due diligence.
Listed skills include Optics, Photonics, Start Ups, Patents, and 45 others.
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Technology innovation, roadmapping, business development, program management and consulting roles in photonics, nanotechnology, existing and emerging optical devices, networking and communications, microfabrication, and high density energy sources.
Redmond, Washington, Us
Team-building, invention, mentoring, program management, people management, coordination of external research collaborations and government business development for upstart university spin-out deeply engaged in physics-based modeling. We are advancing the topological design optimization of structures for control of optical, microwave, and near-dc fields. literally 'dc to daylight.' Applications span datacenter interconnects and architectures, machine learning, sensing, energy storage, and displays.
Bellevue, Wa, Us
Intellectual Ventures is an invention capital company. Responsibilities included strategic planning within the optical and optical networking technology areas, recruitment, training, and management of an extensive set of world-class external analysts, development and delivery of presentations and internal reports for founders and senior management, technology road-mapping, patent analysis and pricing including extensive claim analysis and mapping of patents against products and standards, interaction with deal team for price negotiation with sellers, providing technical direction relevant to patent prosecution, distilling licensing opportunities associated with deals into concise summaries for formal investment documents, internal team-building and mentoring, development of element-by-element evidence of use in technology claim chart formats, and supervision of patent inventory.
Columbus, Ohio, Us
Developed technology reinvestment strategy for planar lightwave circuits, including an intellectual property and research project portfolio designed to exploit the capabilities of micro- and nano-scale planar lightwave circuits for wide-ranging applications in advanced biosensors, reconfigurable optical packet buffers, fiber-based and wireless communications, and advanced radar systems. Team-building as required to connect with worlds leading nanophotonics and microphotonics experts in creating proposals to agencies such as DARPA (to build all-optical packet routers, high energy laser systems, optical biosensors, etc), AFRL (to extend reach of uav stand-off detection), and NSF (to build innovative new THz sources).
Strategic technology planning and technical due diligence in the area of hybrid free-space-optics (FSO)/mm-wave systems. Numerical analysis of the reaches and associated availabilities of diverse mm-wave systems in various market locations. Quantitative comparisons of these reaches and availabilities with those expected from free-space optics systems.
Seattle, Wa, Us
Led evaluation of the impact of the following emerging physical layer technologies on capabilities of future networks: all-optical cross connects, tunable lasers for wavelength agile networks, high bit-rate wireless optics, and software-defined networks (SDN).Canvassed architecture teams to determine key requirements for all-optical switches in long-haul, submarine, and metro applications. Prepared an RFI, issued it to 24 all-optical switching vendors (including vendors employing all-optical circuit switching, packet switching, wavelength switching, as well as next-gen oeo switching), quantitatively analyzed the responses, and made recommendations as to where each technical approach would lead to the greatest network value-add and when. Provided physical layer expertise to vendor selection of metro-DWDM network elements. Managed vendor interactions on the convergence of IP with DWDM, and with 40 Gbps long-haul transmission systems.
Herndon, Va, Us
Led wireless optics applications research. Surveyed capabilities of commercially-available wireless optical link systems, identified trial opportunity, chose leading vendor partner, wrote test plan, directed lab tests, presented team results at SPIE conference, published a paper summarizing team results, and co-authored a patent application on wireless communications.Strategic technology planning in areas of terabit optical networks, wired and wireless in-building distribution, “last mile” fixed wireless links (optical, microwave, and mm-wave), passive optical networks, and the convergence of voice and data on packets. In-depth technical evaluation for vendor selection of metro and long-haul DWDM systems and voice-over-packet hardware and software. Technical due diligence as required.
Seattle, Wa, Us
Built interdisciplinary teams to leverage advances in optical and microwave properties of advanced materials and devices against emerging requirements of next generation internet applications. Developed compact diode-pumped solid state lasers via optical-MEMS and advanced photonic packaging. Characterized optical and microwave properties of devices and materials. Applied lessons from biology to the development of new strategies for fabrication of photonic and microwave devices. Developed and presented new course on photonic polymers.
Malibu, California, Us
Modulation, Pointing, and Tracking of Optical and Microwave Beams: EO modulator microfab, modeling, and measurements. Microfab of holographic optical elements. Design, analysis, and test of complex laser beam pointing and tracking systems. Construction and test of programmable optical links modulated at microwave frequencies, incorporating fiber amps and muxes. Design of an optically-addressable 2-D steerable antenna. Time-reversal of opt beams via optical phase conjugation.GaAs MMIC Test and Space Qualification: Developed screening diagnostics for flight qualification of microwave transmitters. Performed contactless electro-optical probing of microwave circuits. Characterized microwave performance of optoelectronic circuits and devices.Volume holographic storage media and photorefractive devices: Application of spatio-temporal image processing to the characterization of holographic recording media; solid state physics; device development and characterization; photoluminescence.
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Ruth Ann Mullen works for Photon Futures, LLC.
Ruth Ann Mullen is listed as Technology Innovator @ Photon Futures, LLC | Business Development, Invention at Photon Futures, LLC.
AeroLeads has found 1 work email signal at @etaphase.com for Ruth Ann Mullen at Photon Futures, LLC.
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Ruth Ann Mullen is based in Bellevue, Washington, United States while working with Photon Futures, LLC.
Ruth Ann Mullen has worked for Photon Futures, Llc, Etaphase, Incorporated, Intellectual Ventures, Battelle, and Photon Futures.
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Ruth Ann Mullen holds B.S., Applied Physics from Caltech.
Ruth Ann Mullen is listed with skills including Optics, Photonics, Start Ups, Patents, Optical Communications, Intellectual Property, Strategy, and Wireless.
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