DUBLIN, Ireland, June 28 -- Intune Technologies, the Dublin-based developer of tunable laser control products, has announced the formation of its Technical Advisory Board. The board comprises leading industry experts who will provide advice on technology and market trends to Intune's management team.
    Jens Buus, also a nonexecutive director of Intune, will chair the board. Buus is regarded as one of the leading experts on semiconductor lasers, he has published extensively and has authored two texts on laser diodes. Awarded the IEEE-LEOS Distinguished Lecturer title in 1998, he regularly delivers talks at the major laser conferences on laser sources for DWDM networks.
    Also on the board is Geert Morthier of IMEC in Gent, Belgium, author of more than 70 international white papers in the area of semiconductor lasers. Lars Thylen of the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), in Stockholm, where he currently leads the Laboratory of Photonics and Microwave Engineering, will also be on the board. The fourth member of the board is Bjarne Tromberg, who is currently the research professor in modeling of components and systems for optical communications at the Research Center COM, Technical University of Denmark. He is also the chairman of the Danish Optical Society. Wsewolod Warzanskyj completes the Technical Board line-up. He is currently business manager on Advanced Radio Communication Systems at Telefonica, Spain, and is a member of the Management Committee for the European Conference on Optical Communications.