Keith W. Goossen

Executive Summary: Internationally published and invited researcher/entrepreneur/professor with 12 years professional experience in industrial laboratories, 2 years experience founding a company, and 9 years experience as an Associate Professor. Primary work has been in the area of optoelectronics and optical fiber communication. Recently has gained expertise in energy efficiency and the performance of energy audits, as the Director of the D.O.E. funded Mid-Atlantic Industrial Assessment Center. As a consultant has performed extensive intellectual property analysis, including evidence-of-use and product teardown.

● Researcher: Have authored or co-authored 141 refereed journal publications, which have been cited 2926 times, and have an h-index of 32. I am considered a foremost expert in optoelectronic packaging and integration.

● Entrepreneur: I am author of 82 issued patents. I co-founded Aralight to commercialize advanced optoelectronic techniques I have invented, raising $10 million venture capital.

● Professor: In the 9 years at U. of Delaware, as a Principal Investigator, I have raised $1.7 million, and my share of grants where I was a co-PI is $1.8 million, for total raised that I am responsible for of $3.5 million. I have graduated 2 PhD, and 8 MS students. I have developed 4 new courses, with ~ 800 pages of material. I have written one book chapter (pending release).

Professional Experience

Associate Professor, University of Delaware 6/02-

I currently have a group of 6 graduate students, working in the fields of optoelectronic packaging and integration, renewable energy and energy systems. I have authored 22 journal publications while at U. Del. (numerous conf. pres.). I have written one book chapter for the Handbook of Optical Materials, Devices, and Systems, “Optical Properties of Materials.” In the energy audit program, our center has performed ~ 80 audits for industrial plants, resulting in average savings per plant of 300,000 kWh/year and 4,000 MMBTU fuel/year.

Chief Scientist, Aralight, Inc. 9/00-6/02

This startup was spun out from Lucent to commercialize the integrated two-dimensional vcsel/detector-circuit chip technology I invented at Bell Labs. Starting with four of us, we raised $10 million and built an organization of 35 people. I established technical directions, managed intellectual property, and made prototypes of our first product, which performed flawlessly at the 2002 Optical Fiber Communications Conference. Unfortunately the demand for this high bandwidth product did not materialize as projected, and the company was later sold.

Member of Technical Staff, Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs 10/96-9/00

Member of Technical Staff, AT&T, Bell Labs 5/88-9/00

I was an “inventor-on-demand” routinely providing new device technology to satisfy system requirements. I view myself as a physical solution maker and problem solver, both theoretical and experimental, not attached to any particular technology, but developing in any platform that meets the requirements, from micromechanics to optics to high-speed electronics. I published over 100 journal articles and ~60 issued patents while at Bell Labs.

Notable Publications

GaAs MQW modulators integrated with silicon CMOS (cited 210 times [google scholar], seminal to optoelectronic integration)
GOOSSEN, K.W.; Walker, J.A.; D'Asaro, L.A.; Hui, S.P.; Tseng, B.; Leibenguth, R.; Kossives, D.; Bacon, D.D.; Dahringer, D.; Chirovsky, L.M.F.; Lentine, A.L.; Miller, D.A.B. Source: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, v 7, n 4, April 1995, p 360-2.

Silicon modulator based on mechanically-active anti-reflection layer with 1 mbit/sec capability for fiber-in-the-loop applications (cited 113 times [google scholar], seminal to optical MEMS)
GOOSSEN, K.W.; Walker, J.A.; Arney, S.C. Source: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, v 6, n 9, Sept. 1994, p 1119-21.