Biography:Linn F. Mollenauer
Linn Frederick Mollenauer | |
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| Born | January 6, 1937 Washington, District of Columbia |
| Died | July 28, 2021 (aged 84) Silver Spring, Maryland |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Cornell University Stanford University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Bell Labs, UC Berkeley |
Linn Frederick Mollenauer (1937–2021) was an American physicist who worked on quantum optics, including the study of solitons in fiber optics.[1]
Mollenauer was born on 6 January 1937.[1] He studied at Cornell University, receiving his doctorate in physics from Stanford University in 1965.[1] He taught for seven years at Berkeley, before embarking on a research career at Bell Labs from 1972.[1]
A key advance was in February 1993, when Mollenauer succeeding in transmitting "10 billion bits per second through 20,000 kilometres of fibers with a simple soliton system".[2]
In 1982, he received the R. W. Wood Prize.[3] In 1986, Mollenauer was awarded the Stuart Ballantine Medal.[4] Mollenauer was one of the recipients of the 1991 Rank Prize in Optoelectronics.[5] He received the Charles Hard Townes Award in 1997.[3] In 2001, he was the recipient of the Quantum Electronics Award of the IEEE Photonics Society.[6]
He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1993.[7] He was elected a Fellow of Bell Labs in 2001.[1] He was also a fellow of the Optical Society of America.[3]
Mollenauer was co-author with James P. Gordon of the work Solitons in Optical Fibers: Fundamentals and Applications (2006) [8]
Mollenauer died on 28 July 2021.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "LINN F. MOLLINAUER 1937 - 2021". Physics Department at the University of California at Berkeley. https://physics.berkeley.edu/news-events/news/20211115/linn-f-mollinauer-1937-2021.
- ↑ Hechdt, Jeff (2004). City of Light: The Story of Fiber Optics. p. 276.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Linn F. Mollenauer". OPTICA. https://www.optica.org/en-us/history/biographies/bios/linn_f_mollenauer/.
- ↑ "LINN F. MOLLENAUER". The Franklin Institute. https://www.fi.edu/laureates/linn-f-mollenauer.
- ↑ "Optoelectronics winners". Rank Prize. https://www.rankprize.org/prize/optoelectronics/winners/.
- ↑ "Quantum Electronics Award Winners". IEEE Photonics Society. https://www.photonicssociety.org/awards/quantum-electronics-award/quantum-electronics-award-award-winners.
- ↑ "Dr. Linn F. Mollenauer". National Academy of Engineering. https://www.nae.edu/19579/19581/20412/29989/Dr-Linn-F-Mollenauer.
- ↑ "Solitons in Optical Fibers: Fundamentals and Applications". Elsevier. https://www.elsevier.com/books/solitons-in-optical-fibers/mollenauer/978-0-12-504190-4.
External links
- Portrait of Linn Mollenauer (AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives)
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