Ivan Kaminow

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Ivan Paul Kaminow (born March 3, 1930 in Union City , New Jersey , † December 18, 2013 in San Francisco ) was an American physicist who studied applied optics and laser physics .

Life

Kaminow graduated from Union College in New York with a bachelor's degree in 1952, from the University of California, Los Angeles with a master's degree in electrical engineering in 1954, and graduated from Harvard University in 1960 (where he obtained another master's degree in physics in 1957 ) in applied physics (with C. Lester Hogan and R. Victor Jones). From 1952 to 1954 he was at Hughes Aircraft (where he researched microwave antenna systems) and from 1954 at Bell Laboratories . From 1984 he was head of the Photonic Networks and Components Research department . In 1996 he retired there (but advised Bell Labs from 1997 to 1999). He was then an advisor to the US Congress (as a Congressional Fellow of the IEEE ), had his own consulting firm (Kaminow Lightwave Technology) and taught at the University of California, Berkeley , from 2004 , where he is adjunct professor in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

In 1968 he was a visiting lecturer at Princeton University and in 1990 visiting professor at Tokyo University.

At Bell Labs he made important contributions to electro-optical modulators and materials, Raman scattering in ferroelectrics, integrated optics, semiconductor lasers including distributed feedback lasers , optical networks with wavelength division multiplexing and their components, glass fibers (including erbium-doped glass fiber amplifiers, glass fiber Fabry-Perot Resonator, waveguide grating router).

Kaminow was Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Bell Labs and was a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine . He has published over 240 scientific articles and held 47 patents (2011).

Kaminow received the IEEE's Quantum Electronics Award in 1983, the Charles Hard Townes Award in 1995 and the Tyndall Award in 1997. He also received the Third Millennium Medal from the IEEE. In 2011 he received the Frederic Ives Medal . For 2013 he was awarded the IEEE Edison Medal . He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the American Physical Society , IEEE, and the Optical Society of America .

From 1977 to 1983 he was co-editor of the Journal of Quantum Electronics .

Fonts

  • Editor and introductory text: An introduction to electrooptic devices, Academic Press 1974 (Reprint Volume)
  • Editor with Tingye Li (from volume 4A), Stewart E. Miller (up to volume 3B): Optical Fiber Telecommunications, 6 volumes (each in 2 sub-volumes), Elsevier / Academic Press 1979–2013
  • Editor with Anthony E. Siegman : Laser devices and applications: a book of selected reprints, IEEE Press 1973
  • Editor with Casimir DeCusatis: The optical communications reference, Elsevier 2010

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
personal data
SURNAME Kaminow, Ivan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kaminow, Ivan Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Union City , New Jersey
DATE OF DEATH 18th December 2013
Place of death San Francisco