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Whitney White

Founder, Board Member, President & CTO at Chromis Fiberoptics

Dr. Whitney White has more than 25 years of experience researching and developing amorphous fluoropolymers and polymer optical fiber (POF).

Prior to founding Chromis Technologies, he was a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories and OFS Laboratories, where he was the principal inventor of the fluid-pressure extrusion method of manufacturing POF. He also studied the fundamental aspects of POF transmission properties and intrinsic optical properties of fluorinated optical polymers. At Chromis, Whitney leads an R&D team that has developed numerous novel amorphous fluoropolymers for applications in optics, gas separations, and semiconductors.

Whitney is the author or co-author of 8 technical articles on POF, as well as 37 other articles on fundamental aspects of polymer physics and low-temperature physics. He is an author or co-author on numerous patents in the fields of amorphous fluoropolymers and POF.

Whitney earned his Ph.D. (Applied Physics) and M.S. (Electrical Engineering) degrees from Stanford University. He is a summa cum laude graduate in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University.