2005 William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award (Recipient)
Emmanuel Desurvire has been involved in the field of optical fiber communications for over twenty years, starting from a PhD on Raman fiber amplifiers in 1981-83 at Thales with the University of Nice (France). He then took a Post-doc position at Stanford University. In 1986, he joined AT&T Bell Laboratories, where he led the early research on erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFA). He then left for Columbia University in 1990, to become Associate Professor. Beside teaching and research he launched and managed as Editor-in-Chief the international journal Optical Fiber Technology.
Since 1994, he has been with Alcatel, first to lead research on transoceanic transmissions and all-optical regeneration. He then managed the pre-development of 40Gbit/s WDM terrestrial systems. In 1998, he obtained from the University of Nice the title of Sc.D for his work on EDFAs. In 2000, he was appointed Director of the Alcatel Technical Academy, a program he conceived to recognize and reward experts. In 2004, he joined Alcatel’s Intellectual Property as a technology analyst for technology & patents licensing.
After two reference books on EDFAs totaling over 1200pp, he published in 2004 two entry-level “survival guides” on global telecom technologies, totaling over 900pp. He is also Wiley’s Series Editor of the Survival Guides.
E.Desurvire has (co)authored over 200 technical publications and over 30 patents, and is both Alcatel Fellow and IEEE Fellow. He previously received several international awards, including the 1992-93 IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Award, the 1994 prize from the International Commission for Optics, and the 1998 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Engineering.

Statement
“People who were involved in the early investigation of EDFAs fondly remember these times as extremely exciting and scientifically challenging. The award for my contribution to this investigation is not only a great honor, but also an opportunity to share a view on how basic, tech-driven research in telecoms could take off again and inaugurate the next revolution cycle.”

2005 Engineering Achievement Award (Recipients)
Chung-en Zah is Research Director of Semiconductor Technologies Research at Corning Inc., NY. His current interest and effort are in strained-layer quantum well lasers and optical amplifiers, vertical surface emitting lasers, photonic integrated circuits and GaN light emitting devices. His department has participated in commercializing state of art high power 980 and 14xx nm pumps.
Before his group was acquired by Corning Inc. in 1997, he has led a research team at Bellcore, Red Bank, NJ, to design, fabricate and characterize uncooled lasers, high-speed lasers, distributed-feedback lasers, wavelength tunable distributed-Bragg-reflector lasers, and multi-wavelength distributed-feedback laser arrays. He has also participated in several system demonstrations using his lasers and optical amplifiers, such as the subcarrier-multiplexed system, the coherent system, the wavelength-division-multiplexed system and the DARPA funded Optical Network Technology Consortium (ONTC) and Multiwavelength Optical Networking Consortium (MONET) testbeds. He received the Bellcore Distinguished Member of Technical Staff Award in 1992 for his innovative contributions to the applications of lightwave technology to advanced fiber networks, R&D 100 award in 1994 for his uncooled AlGaInAs lasers designed for fiber-in-the-loop applications, and another R&D 100 award in 1996 for WDM network access modules incorporating his multiwavelength DFB laser arrays.
He received the B. S. and the M. S. Degrees from National Taiwan University, Republic of China, in 1977 and 1979, respectively; and the M. S. and the Ph. D. degrees from California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, in 1982 and 1986, respectively. All the degrees are in electrical engineering. His thesis research was in the area of millimeter wave integrated circuits.
He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Optical Society of America. He has served numerous technical conferences including as a conference chair of LEOS’2003 and as a general technical co-chair of APOC’2005 and as an Associate Editor of Photonics Technology Letters since 1993.

Rajaram Bhat received the B.Tech degree in 1969 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, M.E. degree in 1972 from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, and the Ph.D degree in 1977 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, in electrical engineering. His Ph.D. thesis was in the area of organometallic chemical vapor deposition (OMCVD), and in particular on the effect of HCl gas introduced during epitaxial growth on the materials properties.
From 1976 to 1979 he was a member of technical staff in the Advanced Technology department of the Semiconductor Product division of General Electric Company, Syracuse, NY where he worked on the development of GaAs and AlGaAs infra-red light emitting diodes for opto-coupler applications. He then joined Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ to work on organometallic chemical vapor deposition of GaAs and AlGaAs for microwave and high speed device applications. With the divestiture of AT&T in 1984, he opted to move to Bellcore where he continued his research on OMCVD, particularly InP based compounds. In 1994 he won the R&D 100 award for the development of uncooled high performance lasers for fiber-in-the-loop applications. He led the materials effort for meeting the needs of the electronic and optoelectronic devices in the Optical Network Technology Consortium (ONTC) and the local exchange test-bed in the Multiwavelength Optical Networking Consortium (MONET) funded by DARPA. He was on the team that won the 1996 R&D100 award for developing the Network Access Module in the ONTC program.
He was a director of Photonic and Electronic materials research at Bellcore from 1989 to 1994. In 1994 he moved laterally to the position of Senior Scientist. In 1996 he was promoted to Chief Scientist. Since Aug. 1st, 1997, with the acquisition of the materials and device team at Bellcore by Corning, he has been with Corning Inc., where he is a Research Fellow. He has published over one hundred and fifty papers and given many invited talks at international conferences. In addition, he is the author of three book chapters. He holds 17 patents on semiconductor materials and devices. Rajaram Bhat is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the Electrochemical Society and the American Association of Crystal Growth. He has been a committee member of the US Workshop on Organometallic Vapor Phase Epitaxy since inception, in 1983. He was the chairman of the 1997 US Workshop on Organometallic Vapor phase Epitaxy. He has also served several times on the program committee of the International Conference on Metalorganic Vapor Phase Epitaxy , the International Conference on Indium Phosphide and Related Materials, and the International Conference on Chemical Beam Epitaxy. He is currently a member of the International Advisory committee for the International Conference on Metalorganic Vapor Phase Epitaxy and an associate editor of the Journal of Crystal Growth.

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We are honored to be recognized for the work which started more than ten years ago. In 1993, we designed and demonstrated 1.3-mm AlGaInAs strained multiple-quantum-well-lasers with superior high-temperature performance and good reliability. However, the industrial inertia to stay with the proven phosphorus quaternary material system was very high. Only recently, driven by the high temperature requirement, the industry has began to adapt the aluminum quaternary material system for making uncooled lasers and long wavelength vertical cavity surface emitting lasers. We appreciate this timely recognition and would like to acknowledge the Bellcore laser team for their technical support, Drs. T. P. Lee, Vassilis Keramidas and Bob Leheny of Bellcore for their strong management support and Dr. Jim Hsieh of Lasertron for the collaboration in burn-in and lifetest.

2005 IEEE/LEOS Aron Kressel Award Recipient
J. Gary Eden received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering (high honors) from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1972 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1973 and 1976, respectively. In 1975, he joined the Optical Sciences Division of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory as a National Research Council postdoctoral associate, and from 1976 to 1979 was a research physicist in the Laser Physics Branch. Prof. Eden was appointed to the faculty of the University of Illinois (Urbana) in 1979 and is currently Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the Laboratory for Optical Physics and Engineering. At the University of Illinois, he has served as Associate Vice-Chancellor for Research, Associate Dean of the Graduate College, and Assistant Dean of Engineering. Dr. Eden is a Fellow of the IEEE, the Optical Society of America, and the American Physical Society. He has authored more than 200 journal publications and two books, and holds 22 patents. He received the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS) Distinguished Service Award in 1996, the IEEE Third Millennium medal in 2000, and was appointed a LEOS Distinguished Lecturer for 2003-2005. He is the recipient of the 2005 IEEE LEOS Aron Kressel Award. From 1996 to 2002, he served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics and, in 1998, as President of LEOS.

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It is an honor to have been named the recipient of the Aron Kressel Award for 2005, and I would like to express my thanks to the nominator and the LEOS Awards Committee. I owe an enormous debt to many, and foremost among these are my family, and current and former graduate students and postdocs. The latter are responsible for most of the work being recognized by this award. The greatest reward for working in this field, however, is the opportunity to interact with LEOS colleagues and to all I offer my thanks for their friendship.

2005 IEEE/LEOS Distinguished Service and 2006 IEEE Photonics Award Recipient
Fred J. Leonberger served as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of JDS Uniphase Corporation (JDSU), a leading optical components supplier, from 1999 until his retirement in June 2003. At JDSU, he was responsible for strategic technology, and was closely involved in the M&A and IP activities of the corporation. He previously held a similar position at Uniphase Corporation prior to its merger with JDS Fitel in July, 1999. He joined Uniphase upon its acquisition of UTP in 1995. Dr. Leonberger was a co-founder of UTP and served as its General Manager from 1992-1995. From 1984 to 1991, he was Manager of Photonics & Applied Physics at the United Technologies Research Center. From 1975-1984, he was with MIT Lincoln Laboratory, first as a staff member and later as a group leader. He has over 15 patents, 40 archival publications and 125 meeting presentations in the areas of optoelectronic devices and their applications in communications, sensing and signal processing.
He is presently the Principal of EOvation Technologies LLC, a technology advisory firm he founded in July 2003. He serves on the Board of Directors of Agility Communications, Alphion and RF MicroDevices, is a Senior Advisor at the MIT Center for Integrated Photonic Systems, and works with a number of technology companies and venture firms in the fiber optics and photonics industry.
Dr. Leonberger has served as President of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, Co-Chair of CLEO 2002, member of the OFC Steering Committee, chairman of several LEOS/OSA topical meetings, and Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics and of Optics Letters. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of IEEE and OSA, and has been awarded the IEEE Quantum Electronics Award and Mellenium Medal, and the UTC George Meade Medal. He received the B.S.E. degree from the University of Michigan, and the S.M., E.E., and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, all in electrical engineering.

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“I am very honored to have been selected for the LEOS Distinguished Service Award, and glad to have had the opportunity to serve the Society in a variety of capacities over the years. It has been a pleasure to work with many outstanding and service-oriented LEOS colleagues.”