David N. Payne

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David Neil Payne (born August 13, 1944 in Lewes , Sussex , England ) is a British physicist .

life and work

Payne was born to Raymond and Maisie Payne. From 1962 he worked as a commissioning engineer at English Electric Co. Then he studied physics at the University of Southampton , where he received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1967 and his master's degree in quantum electronics the following year . He was then a research assistant and then a researcher and lecturer in Southampton. In 1976 he was with the work on waveguides doctorate . In 1981 he founded York Technology Ltd. with and was its director for ten years. In 1989 he became Deputy Director of the Southampton Optoelectronic Research Center, of which he has been director since 1995. Since 1991 he has also been a professor of photonics . In 2000 he co-founded Southampton Photonics Inc. and became its director.

In 1987 Payne invented the erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA), which greatly accelerated the optical transmission of large amounts of data. This ultimately made the rapid development and widespread use of the Internet possible in the 1990s. Payne also works on the design and manufacture of optical fibers and sensors. He holds four patents, for example he invented the distributed feedback laser .

Payne's hobbies are squash, cooking, motorcycling and gardening.

Publications

  • over 600 papers in scientific journals and conference reports
  • The production and transmission characteristics of low-loss optical fiber waveguides . Dissertation, Southampton, 1976

Prices

  • 1975–90 IEE Electronics Divisional Board Award (five times)
  • 1982 Academie Enterprise Award for establishing York Technology
  • 1986 Queens Award for Industry (York Technology)
  • 1991 Rank Prize for Optoelectronics
  • 1991 John Tyndall Award (IEEE / OSA)
  • 1993 Computers and Communications Prize (Foundation for Computer and Communications Promotion in Japan)
  • 1998 Benjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute)
  • 2000 Basic Prize ( Eduard Rhein Foundation )
  • 2001 Mountbatten Medal
  • Microptics Award (Optical Society of Japan)
  • 2004 Kelvin Gold Medal
  • 2004 Commander of the British Empire (CBE)
  • 2007 Photonics Award ( IEEE )
  • Gyr and Landis Commemorative Prize (twice)
  • Prize for Best Paper (European Conference on Optical Communication)
  • Tobie Award
  • 2013 Elevation to the nobility (Sir).

Memberships

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  1. ↑ RJ Mears, L. Reekie, IM Jauncey and DN Payne: Low-noise erbium-doped fiber amplifier operating at 1.54 μm. In: Electron. Lett. Volume 23, 1987, pp. 1026-1028; regardless of this: Emmanuel Desurvire , J. Simpson and PC Becker: High-gain erbium-doped traveling-wave fiber amplifier. In: Optics Letters . Volume 12, 1987, pp. 888-890.
  2. ^ The inventions of David Neil Payne, on patentstorm.us ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ JT Kringlebotn, J.-L. Archambault, L. Reekie and DN Payne: Er3 +: Yb3 + -codoped fiber distributed-feedback laser. In: Optics Letters . Volume 19, 1994, pp. 2101-2103.

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personal data
SURNAME Payne, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Payne, David Neil (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British physicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Lewes , Sussex , England