OTTAWA and SAN JOSE, Calif. -- JDS Uniphase Corporation (Nasdaq: JDSU - news; Toronto: JDU - news) today announced the retirement of Charles J. Abbe, President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company's WDM, Switching and Thin Film Business Group. The Company also announced the appointment of Gregory P. Dougherty as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of JDS Uniphase. Jay Abbe is retiring from the Company as well as from the JDS Uniphase Board of Directors. Abbe was Chief Executive Officer of Optical Coating Laboratories, Inc. (OCLI) prior to its merger with JDS Uniphase in February 2000 and served as President and Chief Operating Officer of JDS Uniphase prior to the merger with SDL, Inc. in February 2001. Greg Dougherty has assumed responsibility for all day-to-day operations of JDS Uniphase. He had been serving as Chief Operating Officer of the Company's Amplification and Transmission Business Group and had served as Chief Operating Officer of SDL, Inc. during that company's rapid growth and its merger with JDS Uniphase in February of this year. JDS Uniphase Inc.