Gerard A. Alphonse
Gerard A. Alphonse is a Haitian-American electrical engineer,[1] physicist and research scientist,.
Biography
[edit]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
[edit]His daughter is the journalist Lylah M. Alphonse.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ "GERARD A. ALPHONSE". Embassy of Haiti. Retrieved 2021-09-03.
- ^ Officer profile: Gerard A. Alphonse Archived 2015-03-17 at the Wayback Machine, IEEE-USA, retrieved 2015-03-12.
- ^ 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.
- ^ IEEE-USA press release
- ^ Officer profile: Gerard A. Alphonse Archived 2015-03-17 at the Wayback Machine, IEEE-USA, retrieved 2015-03-12.
- ^ "Gerard A. Alphonse Inventions, Patents and Patent Applications - Justia Patents Search".
- ^ "NJinvent.org" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2016-11-07.
- ^ Institute of Caribbean Studies Caribbean Heritage Awards 2016
- ^ Parsiana. P. Warden. 1995. p. 11.
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