Alexey Kovsh
CEO and Co-founder, Alfalume
About the Speaker
Alexey Kovsh has numerous scientific publications, conference presentations, patents and awards in the field of diode lasers and LEDs. Alexey received his scientific degrees, PhD and Dr.Sci. (Habil) under the guidance of Prof. Zhores Alferov, who won the Nobel Prize in 2000 for the invention of semiconductor double heterostructure and demonstration of the first room temperature diode laser at Ioffe Institute, known as "Soviet Union Bell Lab".
From 2000 till 2003 Kovsh was a visiting scientist in ITRI, Taiwan. Together with his colleagues from Ioffe Institute, Alexey started brought to success two photonics companies Innolume GmbH (2003) and Optogan Oy (2004) serving in executive positions. Alexey's team at Innolume demonstrated the first diode comb-laser and 10 Gbps error-free transmission on each lasing line in 2007. Innolume produces and ships worldwide a broad range of photonics components based on self-assembled semiconductor Quantum Dots. Today Optogan, renamed to Klever-LED after an acquisition in 2019, is the biggest manufacturer of white LED packages in Europe. From 2015 and until the founding of Alfalume in 2022 Alexey served several Tier 1 US companies in leading technical roles.
