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Gerard A. Alphonse

Haitian electrical engineer, physicist and research scientist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

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]

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Personal life

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

References

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