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James Coleman to Receive Sarnoff Award for Laser Research

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Coleman.jpgJames J. Coleman, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois, has been awarded the 2008 IEEE David Sarnoff Award for "leadership in the development of highly reliable strained-layer lasers." Coleman and his students demonstrated high performance and reliability from strained-layer lasers, defying conventional wisdom that the materials were inherently unsuitable for commercial application. This type of laser is now a critical component in fiber-optic telecommunications systems. "I am fortunate to have been part of a team with superb students at Illinois and industrial collaborators," said Coleman, who is the Intel Alumni Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering. "We were working on the ideal problem -- one that was scientifically interesting and commercially very important." The Sarnoff Award consists of a bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium and will be presented to Coleman during the 2008 IEEE LEOS (Laser & Electro-Optics Society) Annual Meeting in November in Newport Beach, Calif.
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Published: August 2007
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The technology of generating and harnessing light and other forms of radiant energy whose quantum unit is the photon. The science includes light emission, transmission, deflection, amplification and detection by optical components and instruments, lasers and other light sources, fiber optics, electro-optical instrumentation, related hardware and electronics, and sophisticated systems. The range of applications of photonics extends from energy generation to detection to communications and...
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