著名光通信专家Chinlon Lin (林清隆)教授学术讲座通知
时间：2012年10月29日，下午3:00~5:00，星期一
地点：玉泉校区教三440
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Seminar title: The Evolution of Broadband ICT and Impact of Photonics R and D
Seminar talker: Prof. Chinlon Lin
AT&T Bell Labs and Bellcore, NJ, USA (retired)
Formerly Professor of Photonics, Dept. of IE and EE, CUHK, Hong Kong
Formerly Nanyang Professor, EEE, Nanyang Tech. University, Singapore
Formerly Bao Yu-Gan Guest Professor, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou
Currently Guest Chair Professor, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu and National Sun Yet-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Abstract:
Over the last 50+ years, worldwide R and D activities in lasers, photonics and optoelectronics devices as well as various lightwave systems technologies have successfully developed very-high-capacity optical fiber communications networks for global broadband information infrastructures. Today broadband optical and wireless access and FTTH (Fiber-to-the-Home) are becoming a reality in many regions of the world. This has started the broadband transformation of the modern societies. Broadband ICT (Information and Communications Technologies) and high-speed access to Global Internet have now significantly changed the world beyond all expectations. This talk will present a high-level view and a historical perspective on the impact of R and D efforts in photonics over the last 50 years leading to this global broadband transformation today
Bio of Prof. Lin
Professor Lin is retired after 40+ years of research and teaching in the field of laser photonics technologies and broadband optical fiber communications. He now resides in Holmdel, New Jersey, USA, where he was with AT&T Bell Labs and Bellcore for many years.
He received his BSEE from National Taiwan University in 1967, and Ph. D. from University of California, Berkeley in 1973 where he received an IBM Graduate Fellowship. In 1974 he joined AT&T Bell Labs’ Laser Sciences Research Department, Communications Sciences Division, in Holmdel, New Jersey, USA. His research was on advanced lasers and photonics technologies, nonlinear optical fiber transmission properties for high-speed long-distance optical communications, and dispersion studies in high-speed fiber transmission. He was the first to originate the idea and experimental demonstration of dispersion-shifted single-mode fibers (DSF) as well as dispersion-compensation fibers (DCF), that are essential ideas leading to the modern fibers used in global fiber networks worldwide. In 1984 he was on leave from Bell Labs as a Visiting Guest Professor at the COM Center (now Department of Photonics), Tech. Univ. of Denmark in Lyngby, Denmark, just outside Copenhagen.
He joined Bellcore (Bell Communications Research) in 1986, as Director of Broadband Lightwave Systems Research and directed a team of researchers working on Erbium-doped optical fiber amplifiers (EDFAs), tunable optical filters, DWDM photonics systems for advanced lightwave video distribution and transmission for FTTH and Hybrid-Fiber-Coax (HFC) Cable TV’s broadband networks.
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 systems technologies including dispersion-slope compensation and ultra-wideband hybrid Raman/EDFA amplifiers and related photonics technologies for ultra-high-capacity global long-haul undersea fiber networks.
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 worked on broadband WDM-PON optical access networks and Biophotonics. From April 2008 to April 2010 he was a Nanyang (Visiting Chair) Professor at the School of EEE and also served as Director of Photonics Research Center, at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore which has research activities in Biophotonics, Green Photonics, High-Power and Femtosecond Fiber Lasers, Nanophotonics and Advanced Lightwave Technologies for Broadband Communications.
In 2011, from August to October, he was a Visiting Professor at KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), at Kista, Stockholm, Sweden. In 2012, from April to July 2012, he was a Visiting Professor at Technical University of Berlin, Germany.
Prof. Lin has also served on various Technical Program Committees for international conferences such as OFC in the US, ECOC in Europe, and OECC in Asia. Prof. Lin has been an Advisor to the KTH/Zhejiang University’s Joint Research Center of Photonics in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China as well as a Bao Yu-Gang Visiting Chair Professor of Zhejiang University. He now continues to serve as a Guest Chair Professor of National Chiao-Tung University in Hsinchu, Taiwan and National Sun Yat-Sen University in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, in their Photonics Research Centers. He is a Life Fellow of IEEE’s Photonics Society and Fellow of Optical Society of America.
