James Lee as Vice President & General Manager of POET Technologies, came from IMEC Belgium. Ad the website of IMEC, there's an interesting article jou can read named "Silicon photonics: towards an accesible tech for telecom and sensing". Poet has it, IMEC does not...;O)
https://www.imec-int.com/en/articles/silicon-photonics-towards-an-accessible-technology-for-telecom-and-sensing