Gerard A. Alphonse

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Gerard A. Alphonse is a Haitian electrical engineer, [1] physicist and research scientist, and 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. [2]

As documented in the book [3] by Alexander Magoun, Alphonse spent much of his career at the RCA Labs later to become spun off as the Sarnoff Institute. 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] He holds more than 50 U.S. patents, [5] was inducted into the New Jersey Inventors' Hall of Fame in 2005, [6] and in 2016 was honored with the Marcus Garvey Lifetime Achievement Award by the Institute for Caribbean Studies in Washington, D.C. [7]

Education

Alphonse received a BSEE (1958) and MSEE (1959) from New York University, and a PhD in Electrophysics from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in 1967. [8]

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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. ↑ "Gerard A. Alphonse Inventions, Patents and Patent Applications - Justia Patents Search".
  6. ↑ "NJinvent.org" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2016-11-07.
  7. ↑ Institute of Caribbean Studies Caribbean Heritage Awards 2016
  8. ↑ Officer profile: Gerard A. Alphonse Archived 2015-03-17 at the Wayback Machine , IEEE-USA, retrieved 2015-03-12.


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