Linn F. Mollenauer

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Linn Frederick Mollenauer (1937–2021) was a US 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. ^ a b c d e f "LINN F. MOLLINAUER 1937 - 2021". Physics Department at the University of California at Berkeley. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
  2. ^ Hechdt, Jeff (2004). City of Light: The Story of Fiber Optics. p. 276.
  3. ^ a b c "Linn F. Mollenauer". OPTICA. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
  4. ^ "LINN F. MOLLENAUER". The Franklin Institute. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
  5. ^ "Optoelectronics winners". Rank Prize. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
  6. ^ "Quantum Electronics Award Winners". IEEE Photonics Society. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
  7. ^ "Dr. Linn F. Mollenauer". National Academy of Engineering. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
  8. ^ "Solitons in Optical Fibers: Fundamentals and Applications". Elsevier. Retrieved 30 December 2021.

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