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| 2006 William Streifer Scientific Achievement
Award recipients: William H. Steier, Larry R. Dalton, and Harold
Fetterman |
Dr. William H. Steier is the W. M. Hogue Professor
of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California.
He received the BSEE from the University of Evansville and the MSEE
and the Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana. After completion
of the PhD in 1960, he became an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
at the University of Illinois. In 1962 he went to Bell Laboratories
in Holmdel, N. J. and remained there as a Member of the Technical Staff
until 1968. Those years saw the beginning of fiber optic communications
and integrated optics and Professor Steier contributed to that technology.
He collaborated on the first demonstration of phase locking of lasers.
In 1968, Dr. Steier joined the Electrical Engineering faculty at the
University of Southern California where he is currently the W. M. Hogue
Professor. At USC he served as Department Chair from 1970 until 1984.
He has also held over administrative posts including Director of the
Joint Services Electronics Program, co-director of the Center for the
Integration of Optical Computing, and principal investigator of the
DARPA National Center for Integrated Photonic Technology. His research
group has over 300 publications and conference proceedings in several
areas including optical communications, optical materials, and nonlinear
optics. In recent years, his research has focused on the development
of new polymer materials and polymer integrated optical devices for
optical communications. In collaboration with the Chemistry faculty,
they have brought polymer-based photonics into commercial use. Professor
Steier is a Life Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of the Optical Society
of America. In 1985 he received the USC School of Engineering Faculty
Service Award and in 1996 he received the USC School of Engineering
Senior Faculty Research Award. In 2001 he was awarded the University
Associates Award for Creativity in Scholarship and Research. In 2002
he was named a Distinguished Alumni of the EE-CS Department at the University
of Illinois.
Dr. Larry R. Dalton is the George B. Kauffman Professor of Chemistry
and Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington, where he
also directs the National Science Foundation Science and Technology
Center on Materials and Devices for Information Technology Research
and the DARPA MORPH electro-optic program. He received the B.S. and
M.S. degrees from the Honors College of Michigan State University and
the AM and the Ph.D. from Harvard University. After completion of the
PhD in 1971, he became an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Vanderbilt
University where he also served as Research Professor of Biochemistry
(College of Medicine) and as consultant to the Analytical Division of
Varian Associates for the development of new instrumentation. While
at Vanderbilt, he introduced Saturation Transfer Spectroscopy and defined
protein supramolecular interactions critical to the structure and function
of the human red cell. While at Vanderbilt, he received a Camille and
Henry Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship,
and an NIH Research Career Development Award. In 1975 he joined the
chemistry faculty of the State University of New York at Stony Brook
and began consulting for IBM and Bruker Instruments. This also marked
the beginning of research on DNA (leading to a second NIH Research Career
Development Award) and of extensive Federal advisory service for NIH
including on the parent committee of the National Sickle Cell Program.
In 1981, Dr. Dalton joined the Chemistry faculty at the University of
Southern California (with adjunct appointments in the College of Engineering)
where he served as the first holder of the Harold and Lillian Moulton
Chair and Scientific Co-Director of the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute.
At USC, he collaborated with Professors William Steier, Harold Fetterman
(UCLA) and Robert Hellwarth on the development of second and third order
nonlinear optical materials and participated with them in the DARPA
National Center for Integrated Photonic Technology. He also served as
Director of the Department of Defense MURI Center of Materials and Processing
at the Nanometer Scale. He participated with Professor Myron Goodman
(USC Molecular Biology) in developing the currently accepted mechanism
of DNA mutagenesis. Working with researchers at IBM, he defined the
wavefunction and dynamics of the soliton in the conducting polymer polyacetylene.
His research at USC was recognized by the 1996 Richard C. Tolman Medal
of the American Chemical Society, the 1990 USC Associates Award for
Creativity in Scholarship and Research, and the 1986 Burlington Northern
Foundation Faculty Achievement Award. While at USC, he served on the
NSF High Magnetic Field Panel and on the NSF Materials Research Advisory
Committee in addition to extensive advisory service for NIH, DoE, DoD,
and EPA. In 1998, he joined the faculty of the University of Washington
where he also served as Director of the Department of Defense MURI Center
on Smart Materials and the NSF NIRT on optoelectronic materials. His
research and educational contributions have been recognized by the 2003
American Chemical Society Award in the Chemistry of Materials, the QEM
(Quality Education for Minorities)/MSE (Mathematics, Science, and Engineering)
Network 2005 Giants in Science Award, and the 2000 Distinguished Alumni
Award of Michigan State University. He is a Fellow of the AAAS and a
senior member of IEEE. He is coauthor of over 500 publications and recent
research has focused on photonic, electronic, and optoelectronic technologies
including hybrid device structures integrating organic nonlinear optical
materials with silicon photonics and on new sensor technology (particularly
as related to the development of new materials for embedded network
sensing). He continues to be actively involved in Federal advisory service
and currently serves on the Advisory Committee for the NSF Mathematical
and Physical Science Directorate, the Advisory Committee for the Government
Performance and Results Act (NSF), the Advisory Group for the Electron
Devices (Office of the Undersecretary of Defense), the Energy Science
and Technology Review Committee of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory,
and the Committee of Visitors for Review of the Chemistry Division of
the NSF. He is Chair of the Arizona Biomedical Research Commission Panel
on Biomedical Engineering, Sensing, and Imaging and is a consultant
to NIH and the Veteran’s Administration Medical Research Service.
He serves on several international advisory groups including the Engineering
and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), England. He serves (including
as past Chair) on advisory boards (committee of visitors) to Norfolk
State and Alabama A&M Universities and participated in the creation
of the first Ph.D. program in science and engineering at Norfolk State
University.
Dr. Harold Fetterman is a Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering
at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his BA from
Brandeis University with Honours in Physics in 1962 and the Ph.D in
Solid State Physics from Cornell University in 1968. After two years
as Assistant Professor in Residence in the Physics Department of UCLA
he jointed Lincoln Laboratory, MIT in 1970. While at Lincoln he specialized
in Submillimeter wave technology and developed the first high sensitivity
Schottky Diode Receivers and novel Optically Pumped Laser sources. He
applied these high frequency Corner Cube Heterodyne detectors to widely
to new applications in Remote sensing, Plasma diagnostics and Submillimeter
Astronomy. His group received an IR 100 award for the development of
a Terahertz spectrometer based upon this technology. In 1982 he was
one of the founders of the Millitech Corporation and subsequently joined
UCLA as a Professor of Engineering. He was a founder and first Director
of the High Frequency Center at UCLA and served as the Associate Dean
of the School of Engineering from 1986 to 1989. Becoming interested
in the medical applications of lasers, he was a co-winner of a Lasers
87 Award at the International Conference on Lasers for his contributions
to Phototherapy Cancer Research. In 1997 he was elected Chairman of
the Faculty Executive Board of the Engineering School and in 1999 he
was promoted to Distinguished Professor. He is a Fellow both of the
IEEE and the Optical Society of America. As part of his efforts for
AFOSR and in the NCIPT DARPA Center in the mid nineties he became active
in developing Optically Controlled Phased Array Radar Devices. This
initiated his collaboration with Professor Steier and Professor Dalton,
which continues to this day, and which has just been honored with the
Steifer Award.
2006 Engineering Achievement
Award
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| 2006 Engineering Achievement Award recipients:
John H. Marsh and A. Catrina Bryce |
John Marsh and Catrina Bryce have been jointly presented with the
2006 LEOS Engineering Achievement for their work on monolithic semiconductor
integration. This work was carried out in the Department of Electronics
and Electrical Engineering at the University of Glasgow and at Intense
Ltd, a spin out company formed in 2000.
John Marsh is Chief Technical Officer and co-founder of Intense Ltd
and also holds the post of Professor of Optoelectronic Systems in
the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering at the University
of Glasgow. Catrina Bryce holds the post of Professorial Research
Fellow in the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering.
John Marsh is a graduate of the Universities of Cambridge, Liverpool
and Sheffield. His PhD research at Sheffield was concerned with the
growth, by liquid phase epitaxy, of InGaAsP on InP, which was then
emerging as an important material for fibre communications. John’s
research, however, focused on its potential in electronic devices,
and he established conclusively that the optimum lattice matched alloy
for microwave devices was the ternary InGaAs. During this period he
developed a new model for alloy scattering based on random clustering
of atoms within the layer. His interest in optoelectronics grew while
at Sheffield and in 1986 he moved to the University of Glasgow to
join the long established group working in guided wave optoelectronic
devices. The group had started in the early 1970s, carrying out pioneering
work in integrated optics, first in glass then in lithium niobate.
By the mid 1980s it was focusing on semiconductor integrated optics.
Catrina’s background is in Physics. She carried out her PhD
work in the Physics Department at the University of Glasgow. Her research
was on high frequency phonon scattering in thin film glasses. In 1985
she joined the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering.
Her first post there was as a research fellow working on molecular
beam epitaxy investigating Mg doping of InP. After 18 months she joined
the Optoelectronics Research Group and began working with John, initially
investigating nonlinear optical switching in waveguides.
Over the next few years they established an internationally leading
research group addressing linear and nonlinear integrated optoelectronic
systems. In particular they developed new integration technologies
for photonic integrated circuits based on quantum well devices and
quantum well intermixing. Several intermixing processes have been
developed, neutral impurity induced disordering, photoabsorption induced
disordering (PAID), pulsed PAID, impurity free vacancy disordering
and sputter induced disordering. During this time they worked with
many research students and research fellows who made major contributions
to the work. They have also enjoyed hosting, visiting and working
with academics and industrialists from around the world, provoking
many inspirational conversations. The devices developed include extended
cavity mode-locked lasers, novel high power lasers, bandgap tuned
sources and modulators, monolithically integrated crosspoint switches,
antiguided arrays, visible lasers. Most of Glasgow’s funding
has come from the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council,
who have supported the Group through a series of rolling, large and
platform grants.
The work has been made all the more enjoyable because of the contribution
(technical and non-technical) made by a series of outstanding students
and research fellows. They have been an excellent group of people
to work with and made the work fun. There are many amusing memories,
for example the laser used for the pulsed PAID process was a very
high power laser that would ionise the air if focussed John gave it
the name of “the beast” during a particularly fraught
visit. After a while it was discovered that the student running it
had a novel way of estimating how much power it was emitting. At a
group meeting one morning she said: “The laser isn’t running
as well as usual, it isn’t setting the IR card on fire”.
We would like to reassure everyone that the published measurements
were made on a much more scientific basis.
Intense was founded in 2000 to exploit the Group’s intermixing
technology in telecom components. Because the technology is so versatile
Intense has been able to adapt to the rapidly changing market conditions
that followed the collapse of the telecom space. The Company is now
in volume manufacture of products containing large arrays of individually
addressable lasers. The intermixing technology is crucial in achieving
high yields and reliable high power of single chips containing as
many 100 lasers, 1.5 inch modules containing 300 lasers, and entire
heads containing up to 10,000 lasers.
They have co-authored more than 200 journal and conference papers
including more than 45 invited papers, in international journals and
conferences. John holds 11 granted patents.
They were both founding members of the Scottish Chapter of LEOS; John
was the founding chair and Catrina was its first treasurer. They have
also been heavily involved in LEOS as a society. From 1999 - 2005
John was a member of the Board of Governors of LEOS, serving as a
Vice-President on two occasions and one term as an elected member.
He was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 2000. He is President Elect
of LEOS in 2007, and will serve as President for the term 2008-2009.
Catrina has been an elected member of the Board of Governors of LEOS
over the period 2004-2006, and is currently chair of the Semiconductor
Lasers Technical Committee.
Aron Kressel Award
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| 2006 Aron Kressel Award recipients: Charles
Joyner, Radhakrishnan Nagarajan, and Richard Schneider |
Charles H. Joyner
Born in Decatur Georgia in 1953. He received his bachelor’s
degree in chemistry from Furman University in Greenville S.C. in 1975.
In 1978 and 1981 he received his masters and PhD. degrees in physical
chemistry from Harvard University in Cambridge Massachusetts.
In 1981 he joined AT&T Bell Laboratories as a Member of Technical
Staff. His career work has centered on growth, design, and fabrication
of InP based integrated photonic devices for telecommunications. Topics
in which he played a significant role include the development of selective
area growth, electroabsorption modulated lasers, and the early integration
of AWG filters into InP based photonic devices. In August of 2000
he was promoted to Technical Manager in charge of semiconductor Photonics
for Lucent Bell Laboratories. In July of 2001 he joined Infinera Corporation
as Director of Device Development. He has authored or coauthored more
than 100 papers, received 35 patents, and is a coauthor of Optical
Telecommunications III, San Diego, Academic Press, 1997.
Dr. Joyner was made a fellow of the Optical Society of America in
2003.
In his spare time he can be found hiking or tending his bonsai collection.
Radhakrishnan Nagarajan
Upon finishing his Ph.D. in the area of carrier transport effects
in high speed quantum well lasers, Radhakrishnan Nagarajan spent two
years as a research faculty at the University of California, Santa
Barbara, working on, among other things, microwave fiber optic links.
He subsequently joined SDL in 1995. He first worked on the development
of high speed fiber optic links for wide temperature range operation
(-55ºC to 125ºC) in space and other harsh environments. He later managed
the development of the new generation high power, 980nm single mode
pump modules for EDFA applications. The 300mW pump module won the
Photonics Circle of Excellence Award in 2000. At the time of being
acquired by JDS Uniphase, he was a Senior Manager with the Advanced
Technology Group working on the development of next generation high
speed optical components. In May 2001, he joined Infinera in Sunnyvale,
CA, where he is currently the Director of Advanced Development for
photonic integrated circuits. He has authored/co-authored over 100
publications in journals and conferences, and three book chapters
mainly in the area of high speed optical components.
He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA) and a Senior
Member of IEEE/LEOS.
Radhakrishnan Nagarajan obtained his B.Eng. (First Class Honors) degree
in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Singapore
where he studied under the Government of Singapore Undergraduate Merit
Scholarship. He was then awarded the Hitachi Foundation Scholarship
to study at the University of Tokyo, Japan, where he obtained his
M.Eng. degree in Electronic Engineering. He obtained his Ph.D. in
Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara,
where he was awarded the General Affiliates Dissertation (Ph.D.) Fellowship.
On Saturday mornings you can usually find him on his road bike in
the Bay Area trying to barely keep up with riders half his age. On
Sunday mornings he volunteers as a Tamil language teacher to a group
of elementary and middle school students.
Richard P. Schneider, Jr.
Born in Ohio and raised in Washington State. He received a B.S. degree
in Physical Metallurgy from Washington State University (Pullman,
WA) in 1984, and later completed his PhD work in Materials Science
and Engineering at Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) in the area
of epitaxy and physics of strained quantum wells.
In 1989 he joined Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque, NM),
where his work centered on vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser
(VCSEL) technology. Contributions here include the earliest demonstrations
of red-emitting VCSELs and high-efficiency oxide-confined VCSELs,
and development of metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy (MOVPE) techniques
which later became the industry standard for VCSEL manufacturing.
In 1995, he joined Hewlett Packard (later Agilent) Laboratories in
Palo Alto, CA. There he continued working on oxide-confined VCSEL
technology, eventually transferring the process to manufacturing and
later managing some of the VCSEL manufacturing operations. In addition,
he spent several years developing epitaxial processes for GaN-based
visible LEDs and violet laser diodes, and then managing the GaN Advanced
Optoelectronics R&D effort.
Dr. Schneider has been a Director with Infinera since 2001, managing
the Epitaxial Materials Technology and Integration Engineering groups.
He has authored or co-authored nearly 80 publications in refereed
journals and 2 invited book chapters, and is co-inventor on 20 patents.
He has been elected Fellow of the Optical Society of America (2007).
In his spare time, he can be found spending time with his two children,
hiking, and practicing stereo and nature photography.
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