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About the Editors
Ivan P. Kaminow retired from Bell Labs in 1996 after a 42-year career. He
conducted seminal studies on electrooptic modulators and materials, Raman scatter-
ing in ferroelectrics, integrated optics, semiconductor lasers (DBR, ridge-waveguide
InGaAsP, and multi-frequency), birefringent optical fibers, and WDM networks.
Later, he led research on WDM components (EDFAs, AWGs, and fiber Fabry-Perot
Filters), and on WDM local and wide area networks. He is a member of the National
Academy of Engineering and a recipient of the IEEE/OSA John Tyndall, OSA
Charles Townes, and IEEE/LEOS Quantum Electronics Awards. Since 2004, he has
been Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California,
Berkeley.
Tingye Li retired from AT&T in 1998 after a 41-year career at Bell Labs and
AT&T Labs. His seminal work on laser resonator modes is considered a classic.
Since the late 1960s, he and his groups have conducted pioneering studies on
lightwave technologies and systems. He led the work on amplified WDM trans-
mission systems and championed their deployment for upgrading network capa-
city. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a foreign
member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He is also a recipient of the
IEEE David Sarnoff Award, IEEE/OSA John Tyndall Award, OSA Ives Medal/
Quinn Endowment, AT&T Science and Technology Medal, and IEEE Photonics
Award.
Alan E. Willner has worked at AT&T Bell Labs and Bellcore, and he is Professor
of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California. He received the
NSF Presidential Faculty Fellows Award from the White House, Packard Founda-
tion Fellowship, NSF National Young Investigator Award, Fulbright Foundation
Senior Scholar, IEEE LEOS Distinguished Lecturer, and USC University-Wide
Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is a Fellow of IEEE and OSA, and he has
been President of the IEEE LEOS, Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE/OSA J. of Lightwave
Technology, Editor-in-Chief of Optics Let