It is with deep sadness we announce the passing of our esteemed Prof. Chinlon Lin on December 28, 2024.
Professor Chinlon was a Professor of Photonics at the Faculty of Engineering, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was among the pioneer in optical fiber communications and optical broadband access, making significant contributions to technological advancement. On behalf of the Department of Electronic Engineering at CUHK, we extend our heartfelt condolences to Professor Lin’s family. He will be greatly missed.
Professor Lin is a world-renowned expert, with 50+ years of research and teaching experience, in the field of laser photonics technologies and broadband optical fiber communications systems. He was with AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ and Bellcore, Red Bank, NJ for many years. He was the first to originate the idea and experimental demonstration of dispersion-shifted single-mode fibers (DSF) as well as dispersion-compensation fibers (DCF). He joined Bellcore in 1986, as Director of Broadband Lightwave Systems Research. From 2003 to 2007, he was a Chair Professor of Photonics and Director of the Center for Advanced Research in Photonics (CARP) at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). During this time, he also established the Institute of Optical Science and Technology (IOSAT) and held professorships in both the Electronic Engineering and Information Engineering departments. From April 2008 to April 2010 he was a Nanyang Professor at the School of EEE at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore and also served as Director of Photonics Research Center. From 2011-2013, he was a short-term visiting professor at KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), at Kista, Stockholm, Sweden, (2011), at Technical University of Berlin, Germany (2012), and at Institute of Femto-ST, in UCF, Besancon, France (2013). He has also been a Guest Chair Professor of National Chiao-Tung University and National Sun Yat-Sen University in Taiwan and Bao Yu-Gang Guest Chair Professor of Zhejiang University in China. Professor Lin is a Life Fellow of IEEE’s Photonics Society and Fellow Emeritus of Optica (formerly Optical Society of America).