BKHM Bookham (MM)

Bookham, Inc. (Nasdaq:BKHM) and Avanex Corporation (NASDAQ:AVNX), today announced that Alain Couder and Giovanni Barbarossa, the CEOs from Bookham and Avanex respectively, will hold a joint presentation at the Thomas Weisel Partners Technology and Telecom Conference on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 at 8:35 a.m. Pacific Time.

Event: � Thomas Weisel Partners Technology and Telecom Conference Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 Time: 8:35 a.m. Pacific Time Location: Fairmont Hotel � San Francisco Webcast: Investor section of each Company�s website

About Bookham

Bookham, Inc. is a leading provider of high performance optical products, spanning from components to advanced subsystems. The company designs and manufactures a broad range of solutions tailored for the telecommunications optical infrastructure and other selected markets, including industrial, life sciences, semiconductor, and scientific. The Company utilizes proprietary core technologies and a vertically integrated manufacturing organization to provide its customers with cost-effective and innovative devices, as well as flexible, scalable product delivery. Bookham is a global company, headquartered in San Jose, Calif., with leading edge chip fabrication facilities in the U.K. and Switzerland, and manufacturing sites in the USA and China.

Bookham and all other Bookham, Inc. product names and slogans are trademarks or registered trademarks of Bookham, Inc. in the USA or other countries.

About Avanex

Avanex Corporation is a leading global provider of Intelligent Photonic Solutions(TM) to meet the needs of fiber optic communications networks for greater capacity, longer distance transmissions, improved connectivity, higher speeds and lower costs. These solutions enable or enhance optical wavelength multiplexing, dispersion compensation, switching and routing, transmission, amplification, and include network-managed subsystems. Avanex Corporation was incorporated in 1997 and is headquartered in Fremont, California. Avanex Corporation also maintains facilities in Horseheads, New York; Shanghai, China; Villebon Sur Yvette, France; San Donato, Italy; and Bangkok, Thailand.