AT&T* announced that six distinguished AT&T Bell Labs alumni have been honored by the Optical Society of America for their pioneering efforts in the field of laser technology as part of LaserFest, a year-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of the invention of the laser.
At a LaserFest event held at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., last month, 14 researchers were honored for their work in laser technology. Of those honored, six performed groundbreaking work while at AT&T Bell Labs, including Jim Gordon, Erich Ippen, Ali Javan, Tingye Li, Kumar Patel, and Charles Townes, Nobel Prize winner and inventor of the laser. Another AT&T Bell Labs alumnus, Nobel Prize winner and Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, gave the keynote address at the event.
“We congratulate the AT&T Bell Labs alumni who have been honored for their historic contributions to the field of laser technology,” said Dave Belanger, Chief Scientist, AT&T Labs. “AT&T Bell Labs researchers played a groundbreaking role in the invention of the laser, and similar groundbreaking work continues today in AT&T Labs.”
AT&T Labs has a rich heritage of innovation; its researchers and engineers have developed some of the world’s major technological inventions, including the transistor and cellular telephony, as well as the laser. AT&T Labs researchers continue to invent and apply technologies that enable AT&T to bring a new generation of technology to fruition, including:
* The recent demonstration by AT&T Labs (in collaboration with NEC) of world-record 32 Tbps transmission over a single optically-amplified fiber link, breaking the previous record by 25 percent.
* The advancement of coherent laser detection using one laser to better receive a signal from another laser more than 1,000 kilometers away (in collaboration with Nortel).
* Refining the transmission of “entangled photon pairs” from specialized laser sources for quantum cryptography. Entangled photons can be used to generate cryptographic keys known only by the intended parties, which can be proven using the laws of quantum mechanics.
* Enhancing methods to more accurately perform large-scale and detailed testing of field fibers using mathematical analysis of the reflections from laser light pulses sent down the fiber.
AT&T Labs, AT&T’s applied research and development subsidiary, is comprised of more than 1,000 of the world’s best scientists and engineers, and develops and leverages leading-edge technologies to give AT&T and its customers a competitive advantage. AT&T currently averages more than two global patents issued per business day. AT&T Labs remains committed to developing state-of-the-art communications technologies that enable seamless, easy-to-use, high-quality, and affordable communications – anytime, anywhere.
*AT&T products and services are provided or offered by subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T Inc.
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