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FEATURE
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Marconi Honors Fiber Optics Pioneers Kogelnik and Snyder
Marconi Award winners
Herwig Kogelnik, center left, and Allan Snyder, center right, are
flanked by John Jay Iselin, Marconi Foundation president, left,
and Martin Meyerson, right, Foundation chairman, shown with the
Marconi Award, an original work of commissioned sculpture that accompanies
the $100,000 prize. Dr. Kogelnik made fundamental discoveries in
laser technology, optoelectronics, photonics and lightwave communications
sytems during his 40-year career at Bell Labs. He developed the
theory of stable optical resonators and the theory of thick holograms,
which led to the basis for distributed laser feedback, a critical
element in developing optical communications. Dr. Snyder’s
work is in the disparate areas of optical fiber telecommunications,
visual photoreceptor optics and futuristic light-guiding-light technologies.
He has used his observations of how the visual photoreceptors in
the retina of the human eye transmit light images in the brain to
design devices essential to the operation of a telecommunications
network.
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