You never know when an opportunity to innovate might present itself and, if seized, how much of a difference you can make in people’s lives. Such an opportunity presented itself to us at Broadcom in the area of cancer detection. We have been innovating in optical technology for more than 50 years. Those innovations have largely focused on improving technologies like communications and sensors. This time, our innovation ultimately helped doctors and their patients — and led to other applications we hadn’t even considered. It began with a little-known technology called “silicon photomultiplier,”…