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Paul R. Prucnal is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. He is best known for his seminal work in optical code division multiple access (OCDMA) and the invention of the terahertz optical asymmetric demultiplexor (TOAD).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=5/16: Paul Prucnal, Princeton University ECE Colloquium: All-Optical Signal Processing Technologies for Network Applications )〕 He is currently a fellow of IEEE and the Optical Society of America.〔Edwards, Terence Charles (2000). ''Gigahertz and terahertz technologies for broadband communications'', p. 233 Quote: "The acronym TOAD (terahertz optical asymmetric demultiplexer) has been coined for this class of devices by Paul Prucnal of Princeton University in the United States, who first demonstrated the TOAD." Artech House. ISBN 1580530680〕 == Life and career == Prucnal received his A.B. from Bowdoin College in 1974, graduating summa cum laude. He then earned M.S., M.Phil. and Ph. D. degrees in electrical engineering from Columbia University in 1976, 1978 and 1979, respectively.〔 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 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 in which more than 1000 papers have since been published, exploring applications ranging from information security to communication speed and bandwidth. In 1993, he invented the "Terahertz Optical Asymmetric Demultiplexer,"〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Terahertz optical asymmetric demultiplexer )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Ultra Fast Optical Systems Inc. )〕 the first optical switch capable of processing terabit per second (Tb/s) pulse trains.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Prucnal making light work to accelerate the Internet )〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Paul Prucnal )〕 Prucnal is editor of the book, ''Optical Code Division Multiple Access: Fundamentals and Applications''.〔 He is an Area Editor of ''IEEE Transactions on Communications''. He has authored or co-authored more than 250 journal articles and book chapters and holds 17 U.S. patents. He is a fellow of both the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Optical Society of America (OSA), and a member of honor societies including Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi. He was the recipient of the 1990 Rudolf Kingslake Medal〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rudolf Kingslake Medal and Prize )〕 for his paper entitled "Self-routing photonic switching with optically-processed control" and has won multiple teaching awards at Princeton.〔 His most recent research has concerned the development of the "photonic neuron," a high speed optical computing device modeled on neural networks,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Thinking at the speed of light: The Photonic Neuron )〕 as well as innovative methods to improve wireless signal quality.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bascom Hunter receives NSF grant )〕 He resides in Princeton with his wife and two daughters. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paul Prucnal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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