Paul Prucnal

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Paul R. Prucnal
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Born1953 (age 70–71)
Alma mater Bowdoin College (B.A.), summa cum laud
Columbia University (Ph.D)
Known forNeuromorphic Photonics
Optical Code Division Multiple Access (OCDMA)
Terahertz Optical Asymmetric Demultiplexer (TOAD)
AwardsRudolf Kingslake Medal and Prize SPIE
Fellow of the IEEE (1992)
Fellow of the Optical Society of America (1997)
Scientific career
FieldsPhotonics
Electrical Engineering
Institutions Columbia University (1979-1988)
Princeton University (1988-present)
Website http://ee.princeton.edu/research/prucnal/

Paul R. Prucnal (born 1953) is an American electrical engineer. He is a professor of electrical engineering at Princeton University. He is best known for his seminal work in Neuromorphic Photonics, [1] optical code division multiple access (OCDMA) and the invention of the terahertz optical asymmetric demultiplexor (TOAD). [2] He is currently a fellow of IEEE for contributions to photonic switching and fiber-optic networks, [3] Optical Society of America and National Academy of Inventors. [4] [5] [6]

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Life and career

Prucnal received his A.B. In mathematics and physics from Bowdoin College in 1974, graduating summa cum laud, where he also studied piano with William Eves, a pupil of Robert Casadesus. He then earned M.S., M.Phil. and Ph. D. degrees in electrical engineering from Columbia University in 1976, 1978 and 1979, respectively, [4] where he did his doctoral work with Malvin Carl Teich. [7] After his doctorate, Prucnal joined the faculty at Columbia University in 1979. As a member of the Columbia Radiation Laboratory, he performed groundbreaking work in OCDMA [8] and self-routed photonic switching. In 1988, he joined the faculty at Princeton University.

His developmental research on optical CDMA initiated a new research field [9] in which more than 1000 papers have since been published, exploring applications ranging from information security [10] to communication speed and bandwidth. [11] In 1993, he invented the "Terahertz Optical Asymmetric Demultiplexer," [12] [13] the first optical switch capable of processing terabit per second (Tb/s) pulse trains. [14] [15] With support from DARPA in the 1990s, his group was the first to demonstrate an all-optical 100 gigabit/sec photonic packet switching node and optical multiprocessor interconnect. [16]

Prucnal is author of the book, Neuromorphic Photonics, [1] and editor of the book, Optical Code Division Multiple Access: Fundamentals and Applications. [17] He was an Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Communications. He has authored or co-authored more than 350 journal articles and book chapters and holds 28 U.S. patents. He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Optical Society of America (OSA) and the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), and a member of honor societies including Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi. He was the recipient of the 1990 Rudolf Kingslake Medal [18] for his paper entitled "Self-routing photonic switching with optically-processed control" and has won multiple teaching awards at Princeton. [4]

He has been instrumental in founding the field of Neuromorphic Photonics [1] and developing the "photonic neuron", a high speed optical computing device modeled on neural networks, [19] as well as integrated optical circuits to improve wireless signal quality by cancelling radio interference. [20] [21]

He resides in Princeton with his wife Mindy and daughters Jenny and Katie. [17]

Recognition

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