Gerard A. Alphonse

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Gerard A. Alphonse is a Haitian-American electrical engineer, [1] physicist and research scientist,.

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Biography

Alphonse received a BSEE (1958) and MSEE (1959) from New York University, and a PhD in Electrophysics from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in 1967. [2]

As documented in the book by Alexander Magoun, Alphonse spent much of his career at the RCA Labs later to become spun off as the Sarnoff Institute. [3] He invented and demonstrated the world's highest performance superluminescent diode in 1986. The device is a broadband semiconductor light source and key component of next-generation fiber optic gyroscopes, low coherence tomography for medical imaging, and external cavity tunable lasers with applications to fiber optic communications. [4]

Alphonse was the 2005 president of the United States division of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He has served on several of IEEE's committees and boards. [5]

He holds more than 50 U.S. patents, [6] was inducted into the New Jersey Inventors' Hall of Fame in 2005, [7] and in 2016 was honored with the Marcus Garvey Lifetime Achievement Award by the Institute for Caribbean Studies in Washington, D.C. [8]

Personal life

His daughter is the journalist Lylah M. Alphonse. [9]

References

  1. ↑ "GERARD A. ALPHONSE". Embassy of Haiti. Retrieved 2021-09-03.
  2. ↑ Officer profile: Gerard A. Alphonse Archived 2015-03-17 at the Wayback Machine , IEEE-USA, retrieved 2015-03-12.
  3. ↑ Magoun, Alexander (1 November 2003). David Sarnoff Research Center: RCA Labs to Sarnoff Corporation (Illustrated ed.). ARCADIA PUB (South Carolina). p. 108. ISBN   978-0738513317.
  4. ↑ IEEE-USA press release
  5. ↑ Officer profile: Gerard A. Alphonse Archived 2015-03-17 at the Wayback Machine , IEEE-USA, retrieved 2015-03-12.
  6. ↑ "Gerard A. Alphonse Inventions, Patents and Patent Applications - Justia Patents Search".
  7. ↑ "NJinvent.org" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2016-11-07.
  8. ↑ Institute of Caribbean Studies Caribbean Heritage Awards 2016
  9. ↑ Parsiana. P. Warden. 1995. p. 11.
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