各位老师、同学：
我系光学工程学科参加学校国际评估试点工作，荣幸地邀请到诺贝尔物理学奖评委会前主席Sune Svanberg 教授担任本次评估委员会主席，美国国家科学院院士沈元壤教授，美国国家科工程院院士、中国工程院首批外籍院士厉鼎毅博士，美国三大著名光学中心之一UCF光学中心主任Bahaa Saleh教授，英国首相首席科学顾问、英国两院院士David Payne教授，日本光学学会主席 Toyohiko Yatagai 教授担任本次评估委员会委员。11月17日开始，他们将来我系实地考察并听取研究组报告。借此机会我们邀请到部分专家做系列报告。具体安排如下：欢迎各位老师同学参加！
1、2011年11月19日（星期六）10:30am浙江大学光电系玉泉校区教三301报告厅美国科学院院士、中国科学院外籍院士沈元壤教授学术报告
题目：Celebrating 50 years of nonlinear optics
Biography
Yuen-Ron Shen, Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley.Ph.D., Harvard University, 1963; Berkeley faculty since 1964; Principal Investigator, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 1967; Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, Academia Sinica; Fellow, American Physical Society, and Optical Society of America, Sloan Fellow, 1966-68; Guggenheim Fellow, 1972-73; Miller Professor, 1975, 1981; Alexander von Humboldt Award, 1984; C.H. Townes Award, 1986; A.L. Schawlow Prize, 1992; Max Planck Research Prize, 1996; F. Isakson Prize, 1998; Dept. of Energy Award for Outstanding Scientific Accomplishments in Solid State Physics, 1983, for Sustained Outstanding Research in Solid State Physics, 1987 and for Significant Implications for DOE-Related Technologies, 1997.
2、2011年11月19日（星期六）2:00-3:00pm浙江大学光电系玉泉校区教三301报告厅诺贝尔物理学奖评委会前主席Sune Svanberg 教授学术报告
题目：Laser Spectroscopy applied to environmental and medical research
Prof. Sune Svanberg is a member of the Nobel Prize Committee for Physics since 1998 (chairman during 2004-2006). He received his PhD in physics in 1972 at Chalmers University (Sweden). After a post-doc year at Columbia University, New York and initial work on atomic laser spectroscopy he continued laser-based spectroscopy at Chalmers up till 1980, when he became professor and head of the Atomic Physics Division at Lund Institute of Technology. In 1995 he was appointed director of the newly established Lund Laser Centre, which also gained the EC status of a European Large Scale Facility. He is a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and the Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Optical Society of America and is the recipient of the first EPS Quantum Electronics Prize (1996) and recepient of the first Azko Nobel Science Award (1999). 2004 he was awarded the SKAPA Innovation Prize, and in 2005 the W.E. Lamb Award in Quantum Electronics. He is the coauthor of about 500 scientific papers and more than 20 patents and patent applications, and he helped in the formation of several spin-off companies. Prof. Svanberg is an Honorary Professor of Zhejiang Univeristy starting from October 16, 2006.3、2011年11月21日（星期一）2:00-3:00pm浙江大学光电系玉泉校区教三301报告厅英国首相首席科学顾问、英国两院院士David N Payne教授学术报告
题目：History and future perspectives of optical fibers and amplifiers
Professor David Neil Payne CBE FRS FREng is a leading Professor at the University of Southampton and Director of the Optoelectronics Research Centre. A world class pioneer of technology, his work has had a great impact on telecommunications and laser technology over the last forty years. The vast transmission capacity of today’s internet results directly from the erbium-doped fibre amplifier (EDFA) invented by David and his team in the 1980s. His pioneering work in fibre fabrication in the 70s resulted in almost all of the special fibres in use today including fibre lasers which are currently undergoing rapid growth for application in manufacturing and defence. David has made numerous leading contributions to many diverse fields of photonics and is widely acknowledged as an inventor of key components. Currently, his main research interest is high-power fibre lasers. With US funding, he led the team that broke the kilowatt barrier for fibre laser output to international acclaim and now holds many other fibre laser performance records. An original member of the Highly Cited Researchers (USA) he is honoured as one of the most referenced, influential researchers in the world. He has published over 650 Conference and Journal papers and is a frequent plenary and invited speaker at major international optics conferences. As an entrepreneur David’s activities have led to a cluster of 11 photonics spin out companies in and around Southampton - helping to boost the local economy. He founded SPI Lasers PLC, which has recently been purchased by the Trumpf Corporation of Germany for $40M. Recently elected Chairman of the Marconi Society and to the Russian Academy of Sciences, David is a fellow of the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering. He became a Commander of the British Empire in the 2007 New Years Honours list. In addition he has been awarded the top American, European and Japanese prizes in photonics. Recent awards include the Marconi Prize in 2008 and the 2007 IEE Photonics Award the first to be awarded to a person outside the USA. Most recently, in 2010, David received the AILU (Association of Laser Users) Award for his pioneering work with fibre lasers.
4、2011年11月21日（星期一）3:00-4:30pm浙江大学光电系玉泉校区教三301报告厅，美国工程院院士、中国工程院外籍院士、著名光纤通信专家厉鼎毅学术报告
题目：Advances in Lightwave Communications:
Technologies, Systems and Capacity
Tingye Li
AT&T Labs-Research and Bell Labs (Retired)
Boulder, Colorado 80304, USA
Abstract
Lightwave communications is a major engineering innovation that revolutionized the telecom industry. Innovations in optical fiber and photonics technologies continue to advance lightwave communications, which encompasses both telecom and datacom, thus enabling the inexorable growth of the Internet, a key element of the information age. This talk will present a perspective on advancements in lightwave communications, discuss network requirements and traffic demands that drive innovations in photonics technologies and systems, and consider various innovative advances that fuel the continuing evolution of communications networks toward larger capacity, greater flexibility, enhanced functionality, higher energy-efficiency and lower cost.
Biography
Tingye Li retired in December, 1998 as a Division Manager in the Communications Infrastructure Research Laboratory of AT&T Labs in New Jersey. He is now an independent consultant in the field of lightwave communications and serves on the board of directors of several optical component and systems companies. Since joining AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1957, he has worked in the areas of antennas, microwave propagation, lasers, photonics technologies, and optical communications. His early work on laser resonator modes established the basic theory of laser modes and is considered a classic. Since the late 1960s, he and his groups have been engaged in pioneering research on lightwave technologies and systems, which have been commercialized and deployed in telecom infrastructures worldwide. During the 1990s, he led the seminal work with his colleagues on amplified wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) transmission technologies and systems, which revolutionized lightwave communications and facilitated the exponential growth of the Internet.Dr. Li holds a B.Sc. degree from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. He is a Fellow of OSA, IEEE, AAAS, PSC, and IEC, a Member of the National Academy of Engineering and Academia Sinica, and a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He has received the IEEE 1975 W. R. G. Baker Prize, the IEEE 1979 David Sarnoff Award, the OSA/IEEE 1995 John Tyndall Award, the OSA 1997 Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus Quinn Endowment, the 1997 AT&T Science and Technology Medal, the IEEE 2004 Photonics Award, and the IEEE 2009 Edison Medal. His other awards include the 1981 Alumni Merit Award from Northwestern University, and Achievement Awards from CIE/USA (1978), CAAP (1983) and PSC (1998). He has been named an honorary professor at many universities and institutions in China and Taiwan, and has been granted an Honorary Doctor of Engineering degree by the National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan and an Honorary Doctor of Science Degree in Engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Dr. Li has been active in various professional societies, serving as officer, board member, committee member and chair, journal editor, conference chair, etc. He was President of OSA in 1995.
