Andrew Chraplyvy has been named the winner of the 2003 John Tyndall Award, which will be presented to him “for pioneering research on optical fiber nonlinearities and their dispersion management, and leading wavelength-division-multiplexed fiber transmission systems beyond Terabit/second capacities.” The Award will be presented at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC’2003), which will be held during the week of 23-28 March in Atlanta, GA.
Andrew Chraplyvy received his undergraduate degree in physics from Washington University in St. Louis, and his MS and PhD degrees in physics from Cornell University. He is Director of Lightwave Systems Research at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies. He is a Bell Labs Fellow, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, and a member of the IEEE.
The John Tyndall Award is named for the 19th century British scientist who was the first to demonstrate a phenomenon of internal reflection. First presented in 1987, the Tyndall Award recognizes an individual who has made pioneering, highly significant, or continuing technical leadership contributions to fiber optics technology. The award is sponsored by the IEEE Lasers & Electro-Optics Society and the Optical Society of America and includes a specially commissioned Steuben glass sculpture that represents the concept of total internal reflection, a scroll and an honorarium funded through an endowment and gift of Corning, Inc.