Tingye Li

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Tingye Li (* 1931 in Nanjing ; † December 27, 2012 in Snowbird , Utah ) was a Chinese-American physicist who studied optics.

Tingye Li

Li was the son of a Chinese diplomat and moved to Canada with his family when he was 12 years old. He then moved to the USA and studied physics at the University of the Witwatersrand (bachelor's degree) and received his doctorate from Northwestern University . From 1957 until his retirement from 1998 he was at the Bell Laboratories of AT & T , where he remained after consultant. From 1967 to 1976 he was director of the repeater systems research department , from 1976 of Lightwave Media and 1984 to 1996 of Lightwave Systems . Most recently he was Division Manager in the Communications Infrastructure Research Laboratory. He lived in Boulder , Colorado .

Li was one of the first scientists to study laser modes theoretically (with A. Gardner Fox ) From the 1960s he was a pioneer in research on optical communication . In the late 1980s he demonstrated Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) and the use of optical amplifiers in communication over fiber optic networks .

In 1995 he was President of the Optical Society of America (OSA). He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering , Academia Sinica in Taiwan and the Chinese Engineering Academy. In 1975 he received the WRG Baker Prize from the IEEE and in 1997 the Frederic Ives Medal from the OSA. In 2004 he received the IEEE Photonics Award and in 2009 the Edison Medal of the IEEE. In 1995 he received the John Tyndall Award from OSA and IEEE. He received the ATT Science and Technology Medal. His father-in-law, KC Wu, was the governor of Taiwan Province.

Fonts

  • Published by Optical Fiber Communications: Fiber Fabrication , Academic Press 1985
  • Topics in Lightwave Transmission Systems , Academic Press 1991
  • with Ivan P. Kaminow (editor): Optical Fiber Telecommunications , Volume IV-A, B, Academic Press 2002, Volume V - A, B (also with Alan E. Willner), 2008

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary at the OSA
  2. ^ Fox Gardner, Li Resonant modes in a maser interferometer , Bell System Technical Journal, Vol. 40, 1961, pp. 453-488, comment on this in Science Citation Classics, PDF file . With Herwig Kogelnik Laser Beams and Resonators , Applied Optics, Vol. 5, 1966, p. 1550
personal data
SURNAME Li, Tingye
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 厉鼎毅 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese-American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Nanjing
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 2012
Place of death Snowbird , Utah