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Joe Charles Campbell is a leading innovator in the field of photonics for his role in the development of laser light detectors used in fiber optics systems in telephone and other telecommunication systems to receive voice and data over fiber optics. Dr. Campbell is recognized for his significant contributions in high-speed, low-noise avalanche photodiodes (APDs), which have led to key advancements in this field. Dr. Campbell’s avalanche photodiodes are able to convert pulses of light into electrical information during long distance telecommunications at high speeds with very low distortion or noise. He is currently a Lucien Carr Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. An IEEE Fellow, he has co-authored eight book chapters and more than 300 conference presentations. Dr. Campbell has previously received the IEEE William Streifer Achievement Award from IEEE LEOS, the Nicholas Holonyak Award from the Optical Society of America and was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering.
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2011 - Amnon Yariv
Martin and Eileen Summerfield Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering, Carlifornia Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif
2010 - Ivan P. Kaminow
Considered a luminary in the field of photonics, Ivan Paul Kaminow’s contributions to lightwave technology have revolutionized telecommunications. Dr. Kaminow explored electro-optic materials for high-speed modulation of optical signals and developed a titanium-diffused waveguide for lightwave communications at microwave frequencies up to 100 GHz. This modulator is the technology of choice for today’s long-distance broadband lightwave systems. He also demonstrated the distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) laser and the ridge-waveguide structure for semiconductor lasers at telecommunications wavelengths. These devices are found in many of today’s commercial lightwave systems. As a research manager at Bell Labs, Dr. Kaminow led the research in wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) optical communications. Its low cost and huge information capacity has made the commercial Internet a reality.
An IEEE Life Fellow, Dr. Kaminow is currently a professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of California, Berkeley, where he mentors graduate students in the field.
2009 - Robert L. Byer
Considered by many of his peers as a “pathfinder” in the fields of nonlinear optics and solid-state lasers, Robert L. Byer’s research and inventions have led to widespread applications of lasers in areas ranging from space science to electronics manufacturing.
Working with lasers at Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA, since 1969, his lab developed the first tunable visible color laser source, ultraviolet solid-state lasers needed for drilling very small holes in circuit boards of electronic components, and laser diode pumped monolithic ring Nd: YAG laser, which is known as the nonplanar ring oscillator (NPRO). The NPRO laser is still being manufactured today, and is used for satellite-to-satellite communications, installed in submarines for sensitive sonar applications, and in space research.
He is currently the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University. An IEEE Fellow, he has written more than 500 scientific papers and holds 50 patents in this field. Dr. Byer has previously received the IEEE Quantum Electronics Award and the Optical Society of America R.W. Wood Prize.
2007 - David N. Payne
During his four-decade career at the U.K.’s University of Southampton, David Payne has designed some of the highest power fiber lasers in the world and generated a host of fiber components in the telecoms and sensor arenas. He pioneered several key related developments, including photonics-based technologies for telecommunications, optical sensors, nanophotonics and optical materials. He also led the teams that invented the silica single-mode fiber laser and amplifier and broke the kilowatt barrier for high power fibre laser output. He was the first to use phosphorous as a core dopant to achieve numerous processing advantages and developed the erbium-doped fiber amplifier, which created a revolution in optical-fiber communications.
A Fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the IEE, and the Optical Society of America, he is currently director of the University of Southampton’s Optoelectronics Research Centre.
2006 - Frederick J. Leonberger
Dr. Frederick J. Leonberger is acknowledged as a leader in high-performance fiber-optic communications. During his long career, he helped create many photonic component and module technologies that significantly advanced the field
While at the Lincoln Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Lexington, Massachusetts, and at the United Technologies Research Center in East Hartford, Connecticut, Dr. Leonberger led the development of high-performance external modulation components in lithium niobate (LiNbO3) and semiconductors. He contributed directly to the development of Fiber Bragg Gratings, a component that stabilizes the wavelength of diode lasers, and fiber lasers, and other components in wavelength division multiplexing networks.
As general manager and co-founder of United Technologies Photonics, Bloomfield, Connecticut, he pioneered and helped commercialize the proton ion-exchange process for waveguide devices in LiNbO3. As Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of JDS Uniphase,of San Jose, California, he played a key role in the company’s strategic technology development. He currently heads his own technology advisory firm, EOvation Technologies LLC, in West Hartford, Connecticut.
An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Leonberger is a past president of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS) and has received the IEEE Third Millennium Medal and the LEOS IEEE Quantum Electronics Award.
2005 - Rodney C. Alferness
Dr. Rod C. Alferness' seminal and sustained work on optical switching technology and architecture has driven the vision of fiber optics communication to reality and has been central to the now well accepted concept of optical layer networking. In his role as senior vice president of Optical Networking Research at Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs in Holmdel, New Jersey, he has introduced many new optical transmission technologies now deployed in conventional and next-generation reconfigurable telecommunications networks. Dr. Alferness is world renowned for his pioneering research and early demonstrations of novel lithium niobate and indium-phosphide waveguide electro-optic and opto-electronic devices, now used in thousands of land, sea and cables light wave systems around the world. These form the foundation for most of the wavelength-division multiplexed systems today.
An IEEE Fellow, he has served as president of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society from 1996 to 1997 and as editor of the IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology.
2004 - Tingye Li
Dr. Tingye Li's seminal contributions to lightwave technologies span more than four decades. After joining AT&T- Bell Labs in Holmdel, New Jersey in 1957, he worked with Gardner Fox on laser resonator modes; their work has been fundamental to the theory and practice of lasers. He is a pioneering leader in lightwave system research and is credited with revolutionizing lightwave communications by advocating and leading the research on amplified wavelength-division-multiplexed transmission systems at AT&T. Dr. Li retired from AT&T in 1998, as a division manager in the Communications Infrastructure Research Laboratory, and is currently an independent consultant in lightwave technologies and systems.
An IEEE Life Fellow, he is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and a fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA). Dr. Li has received the IEEE David Sarnoff Award, the IEEE W.R.G. Baker Prize Paper Award and the OSA/IEEE John Tyndall Award.
