MONTEREY PARK, Calif. & PLAYA DE MAR, Mexico–(Business Wire)–
Kotura Inc., an industry leader in silicon photonics, today announced that CTO
Mehdi Asghari will be a featured panelist in the session called, Optical
Networks and Devices for Data Centers in the prestigious IEEE Photonics Society
(formerly LEOS) Summer Topicals conference held in Playa de Mar, Mexico from
July 19-21, 2010. Dr. Ashari will also present an invited talk, “Interconnecting
with Silicon,” describing recent Kotura achievements in silicon photonics.

Kotura will present three additional research papers at the renown Summer
Topicals Conference. The first, Low Loss Silicon Waveguides for Application of
Optical Interconnects, by P. Dong, et al occurs on Monday, July 19th, 2010 at
11:30 AM. The second paper, Broadly Tunable High Speed Silicon Micro-ring
Modulator, by P. Dong, et al. occurs at 2:45 PM also on Monday. And the third,
Monolithic Chip-to-Chip WDM Optical Proximity Coupler Utilizing Echelle Grating
Multiplexer/Demultiplexer Integrated with Micro Mirrors Built on SOI Platform,
byD. C.-H. Lee, et al. is presented at 2:30 PM on Tuesday.

The Topical Meeting Series of the Photonics Society, formerly known as LEOS, is
the premier conference for emerging fields in photonic science, device
technologies, and applications. Kotura has presented at multiple IEEE
conferences including the previous LEOS conference.

About Kotura, Inc.

Kotura, Inc., a worldwide leader in Silicon Photonics, designs, manufactures and
markets a portfolio of application-specific silicon photonics products for the
communications, computing, sensing, and detection markets. An ISO 9001:2000
certified company, Kotura has been in mass production of silicon photonics
components for more than four years. Kotura is an active participant in the IEEE
802.3ba 40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s Ethernet Task Force, the Video Electronics
Standards Association (VESA) and the Silicon Photonics Alliance, the first
formal Community of Interest with the Optoelectronics Industry Development
Association (OIDA). For more information, please visit the company`s web site at
www.kotura.com.

Kotura, Inc.
Arlon Martin, 626-236-4500
Fax: 626-236-4501
amartin@kotura.com

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