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Andrew Chraplyvy and Robert Tkach, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs scientists, will
share the 2009 Marconi Fellowship and Prize for their research into optical
fiber nonlinearities and their development of novel mitigation techniques that
vastly increased the transmission speed and capacity of optical fiber
communications systems. Their research and unique innovations are at the core
of today’s high speed broadband telecommunications networks.
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The Marconi Fellowship and Prize is awarded yearly by the Marconi Society
honoring a living scientist whose work in the field of communications and
information technology advances the social, economic and cultural improvement
of all humanity.
Realizing the Future of Optical Networking
Chraplyvy and Tkach, partners in research for more than two decades,
recognized that demand for network capacity was growing exponentially and that
nonlinearities inherent in optical transmission would make it virtually
impossible to achieve the speeds required to meet that demand. The two
scientists recognized that previous approaches to increase transmission
efficiency were not sufficient and they developed novel techniques that would
overcome these limitations.
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Andy Chraplyvy and Bob Tkach in the lab at the Bell Labs research center in
Crawford Hill, NJ.
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