OPN Talks with Ivan P. Kaminow

For the past 60 years, Ivan Kaminow has been at the forefront of optics and photonics. After working at Bell Labs for 42 years, he transitioned to working on Capitol Hill as a Congressional Science & Engineering Fellow and then as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley (U.S.A.). His dedication to the field and to OSA has been tireless, so it is only fitting that he be recognized with the Society’s highest award for his accomplishments. He will accept OSA’s Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus W. Quinn Endowment and give a presentation on the early days of lightwave communications during the plenary and awards session at OSA’s annual meeting, Frontiers in Optics (FiO), being held in San Jose, Calif., from Oct. 16-20.