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Rod C.
Alferness is currently the Bell Laboratories
Optical Networking Research Senior Vice President. Prior to this position Rod was the
Chief Technical Officer and Advanced Technology and Architecture
Vice-President of the Optical Networking Group, Lucent Technologies. Previously he was head of the
Photonics Networks Research Department of Lucent Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, New Jersey.
Rod
joined Bell Labs in 1976 after receiving a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Michigan where his thesis research
concerned optical propagation in volume holograms. Since then his research has included
the demonstration of novel waveguide electro-optic devices and circuits -
including switch/modulators, polarization controllers, tunable filters -
and their applications in high capacity lightwave
transmission and switching systems. Dr. Alferness
has also made contributions in photonic integrated circuits in InP, including widely tunable lasers, photonic
switching systems and reconfigurable WDM optical networks. In the mid-90’s, he was an
originator and the Bell Labs Program Manager for the DARPA funded MONET project
which demonstrated the feasibility of wavelength routed optical
networks. Dr. Alferness has authored over 100 papers, holds 35
patents and has authored five book chapters.
Dr. Alferness is a member of the National Academy of
Engineering He is a Fellow of the Optical Society and the IEEE Lasers and
Electro-Optics Society (LEOS).
Dr. Alferness received the 2005 IEEE
Photonics Award. He has served
as an elected member of the LEOS AdCom and on
many program committees for various conferences. He was General Co-Chair of
OFC’94. He served as
Conference Chair for the 1988 IEEE Topical Meeting on Integrated and
Guided-Wave Optics; 1994 Topical Meeting on Optical Networks; and 1995
Topical Meeting on Photonics in Switching. Dr. Alferness
has served as Associate Editor for Optics Letters and Photonic Technology
Letters and was the Editor of the Journal of Lightwave
Technology from 1995-2000. He
served as an elected member of the Optical Society of America Board of
Directors from 2001-2003.
He was the president of IEEE LEOS in 1997. Dr. Alferness
also serves on the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC)
Executive Management Committee.
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