Emmanuel Desurvire

Emmanuel Benoit Desurvire (born June 7, 1955 in Boulogne-Billancourt , France ) is a French physicist .

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Desurvire received his Baccalauréat at the Lycée Claude Bernard in Paris in 1974 and graduated in 1981 with the Diplôme d'études approfondies at the University of Pierre and Marie Curie . From 1981 to 1983 he began his research at the University of Nice with the amplification of Raman fiber lasers . Then he accepted a position as a post-graduate student at Stanford University . In 1986 he went to AT&T Bell Laboratories , where he did early research on optical amplifiers doped with erbium (EDFA). Desurvire was appointed adjunct professor at Columbia University in 1990. He has been working for Alcatel since 1994 . In 1998 he completed his habilitation at the University of Nice with work at the EDFA. In 2000 he became Director of the Alcatel Technical Academy.

Awards

• 1992–93 IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Award
• 1994 International Prize In Optics (International Commission for Optics)
• 1998 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Engineering
• 1998 Général Ferrié Grand Prize in Electronics
• 2005 William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award
• 2007 John Tyndall Award
• 2008 Millennium Technology Prize

Memberships

• 2000 Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Publications

Desurvire has made more than 200 publications and over 30 patents . He has written two reference works on EDFA and in 2004 published two entry level survival books on global telecommunications.

• Amplification optique par effet Raman stimule dans les fibers optiques monomodes . Dissertation, 1983
• Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers. Principles and applications . Wiley, New York [et. a.] 1994, ISBN 0-471-58977-2
• Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers. Device and system developments . Wiley-Interscience, New York 2002, ISBN 0-471-41903-6
• Wiley survival guide in global telecommunications . Wiley-Interscience, Hoboken, New Jersey 2004
  • Volume 1: Signaling principles, network protocols, and wireless systems . ISBN 0-471-44608-4
  • Volume 2: Broadband access, optical components and networks, and cryptography. ISBN 0-471-67520-2
• Classical and quantum information theory. An introduction to the telecom scientist. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2009, ISBN 978-0-521-88171-5 ( digitized version )
• Charles Edmond Chojecki. Patriote polonais, explorer, soldier, poète, dramaturge, novelist, journalist, bibiothécaire. Publications Lulu [u. a.], 2011
  • Volume 1: 1822 à 1856. ISBN 978-1-470-97793-1
  • Volume 2: 1857 à 1872. ISBN 978-1-470-98125-9
  • Volume 3: 1873 à 1899. ISBN 978-1-470-98135-8

Web links

• Short biography ( memento from November 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
• Short biography ( Memento from May 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
• Desurvire, Emmanuel 1955– on highbeam.com
• The Millennium Prize Laureates 2008: Inventors of the Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier