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Chinlon Lin

Nanyang Professor and Director

Photonics Research Center

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Nanyang Tech. University, Singapore

 

 

 

 

Dr. Charles K. Kao was recently awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for his pioneering contributions to the optical fiber communications. Dr. W. Boyle and Dr. G. Smith of Bell Labs also share with Dr. Kao the 2009 Nobel Prize for their invention of CCD device for digital electronic imaging. Both awards are related to Photonics. Since the 1960 invention of the Laser, advances in photonics and the related optoelectronics technologies for optical fiber communications have changed the world significantly in terms of global telecommunications, and ubiquitous availability of information and all media via the Global Internet. This is all made possible by the vast optical fiber networks spanning the globes and in the undersea links inter-connecting all the continents across the oceans. This talk will give a historical perspective of the past, present and future of Photonics R and D and their impact on the human information society.

 

 

Professor Chinlon Lin received his BSEE from National Taiwan University, MS from University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, and Ph. D. from University of California, Berkeley. He received an IBM Graduate Fellowship at UC Berkeley. In 1974 he joined AT&T Bell Labs’ Laser Sciences Research Department, Electronics Research Laboratories of the Communications Sciences Division, in Holmdel, New Jersey, USA. His research is on lasers and photonics technologies, and nonlinear optical fiber transmission for high-speed long-distance optical communications. He invented tunable fiber Raman lasers and dispersion-shifted fiber as well as dispersion compensation fiber, and studies nonlinear mixing in optical fibers. He joined Bellcore (Bell Communications Research) in 1986, as Director of Broadband Lightwave Systems Research and worked on optical fiber amplifiers, tunable optical filters, DWDM (dense-wavelength-division-multiplexing) photonics systems and advanced lightwave video transmission for Hybrid Fiber Coax Cable TV’s broadband networks where his team pioneered many new advances in DWDM photonics technologies for Fiber-to-the-Home broadband access systems.  In 1997 he joined Tyco Submarine Systems R & D Labs (formerly AT&T Submarine Systems) as Technical Director of Advanced Lightwave Technologies and work on DWDM and wideband fiber amplifier photonics technologies for DWDM-based ultra-high-capacity global long-haul undersea optical fiber networks that formed the infrastructure network foundation of today’s Global Internet. From 2003 to 2007 he was with Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) as Chair Professor of Photonics and Director of Center for Advanced Research in Photonics, and as a Professor of both the Electronic Engineering and Information Engineering departments. At CUHK he conducted research in advanced WDM PON (Passive Optical Networks) and related Next-Generation Optical Broadband Access Technologies and Networks.   Since April 2008 he has been a Nanyang (Visiting Chair) Professor of School of EEE and also Director of Photonics Research Center at Nanyang Tech. University in Singapore.

 

Professor Lin has been an Associate Editor for IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology and IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, and served on the technical program committees for several international conferences including OFC (in the US), ECOC (in Europe) and OECC (in Asia). He has served on several Advisory Boards including ITRI in Hsinchu, Taiwan and ASTRI in Hong Kong.  He is also a Bao Yu-gang Chair Professor at Zhejiang University and a Guest Chair Professor of National Chiao-Tung University in Hsinchu, Taiwan. He is a Fellow of both IEEE’s Photonics Society and Optical Society of America. He was President of the Photonics Society of Chinese Americans (USA) in 1994.