Larry A. Coldren is the Fred Kavli Professor ofOptoelectronics and Sensors at the University of California, SantaBarbara. He has authored or coauthored over a thousand journal andconference papers, seven book chapters, and a textbook, and hasbeen issued sixty-three patents. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, OSA,and IEE, the recipient of the 2004 John Tyndall and 2009 AronKressel Awards, and a member of the National Academy ofEngineering. Scott W. Corzine obtained his PhD from the University ofCalifornia, Santa Barbara, Department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering, for his work on vertical-cavity surface-emittinglasers (VCSELs). He worked for ten years at HP/Agilent Laboratoriesin Palo Alto, California, on VCSELs, externally modulated lasers,and quantum cascade lasers. He is currently with Infinera inSunnyvale, California, working on photonic integrated circuits. Milan L. Mashanovitch obtained his PhD in the field ofphotonic integrated circuits at the University of California, SantaBarbara (UCSB), in 2004. He has since been with UCSB as a scientistworking on tunable photonic integrated circuits and as an adjunctprofessor, and with Freedom Photonics LLC, Santa Barbara, which hecofounded in 2005, working on photonic integrated circuits.