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Dr. Ranjit Mand is the CTO, optical components at Comstellar Technologies. He has extensive experience in fiber optic communications, spanning everything from teaching graduate courses, to research and development, engineering management, marketing, new business development, and entrepreneurship. He has held positions at Bell Northern Research in Canada, Toshiba Corporation in Japan, and AT&T Bell Labs and Furukawa Electric in the U.S.A.He helped create Optical Communications Products, Inc., an active data link manufacture, and served on the company's Board for 3 years. More recently, he was instrumental in forming three startups: Cinta Corporation, a DWDM telcom products manufacturer, Tera Fiberoptics, Inc., a DWDM passive components manufacturer, and Axcel Photonics, Inc., a high power laser diode manufacturer. He holds 6 patents, and is a recipient of The Insignia Award given for work in optoelectronics devices. A graduate of British universities, he has a BS in Physics with Solid State Electronics, an MS in Microelectronics, and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. | 