Professor Lin received his BSEE from National Taiwan University (NTU), MS from University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, and his Ph. D. from University of California, Berkeley.....

He joined AT&T Bell Labs’ Laser Sciences Research Department, Communication Sciences Research Division, Holmdel, NJ, in 1974. At Bell Labs, his research included studies of nonlinear optics in fibers, self-phase-modulation, and four-wave-mixing for optical frequency conversion, supercontinuum generation, Raman amplification in fibers as well as dynamic optical frequency chirp studies in high-speed semiconductor laser modulation for high-bit-rate fiber transmission systems. He was the inventor of the tunable infrared fiber Raman lasers, and both dispersion-shifted fibers (DSF) and dispersion-compensating fibers (DCF).  DSF and DCF have become the ubiquitous fiber infrastructure of today’s long-haul high-speed fiber transmission systems and global undersea optical fiber networks. He received an IEE Electronics Letters Premium award for his work on DSF. In 1984 he was on leave from Bell Labs as a Visiting Guest Professor at the COM Center of the Tech. Univ. of Denmark.

After the AT&T divestiture, he joined Bellcore (Bell Communications Research) as Director of Broadband Lightwave Systems Research. He led a group working on broadband optical access architectures and technologies such as FTTH (Fiber-to-the-Home), FTTC, HFC systems, DWDM tunable filters and EDFAs for high-capacity digital and analog lightwave video systems. He then worked in Tyco Submarine Systems R & D Labs (formerly AT&T Submarine Systems) on DWDM global long-haul undersea fiber networks, and later also he founded Jedai Broadband Networks, a startup on broadband high-speed fiber access optical networks .

From 2003 to 2007 he was with Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) as Chair Professor of Photonics for both the Electronic Engineering and Information Engineering departments. He was Director of the Institute of Optical Science and Technology, and Center for Advanced Research in Photonics at CUHK.  The Center was actively engaged in advanced research on Broadband Optical Access Networks, Advanced Lightwave Communications Systems and Technologies, and Nonlinear Photonic Signal Processing using Photonic Crystal Fibers.  The Center also initiated a small research effort in establishing a Biophotonics Laboratory, with research work on SPR-based Bio-Sensing, Confocal Microscopy for Bio-Imaging and fluorescence and Raman spectroscopy in hollow-core Photonic Crystal Fibers for Biosensing, etc. for basic studies such as apoptosis of cancer cells, as well as applied biomedical diagnosis such as non-invasive monitoring of oxygen-levels in blood cells.  Under the guidance of Prof. Lin, the Center has also organized several internal symposia and workshops covering many areas of advanced photonics.

Professor Lin has published over 180 papers and international conference presentations, contributed several invited book chapters and holds 17 patents. He was an Associate Editor for IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology and IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, and was on the technical program committees for OFC (Optical Fiber Communications Conference), Optical Amplifier Topical Meeting, Topical Meeting on Optical Networking, etc. He was also on the technical program committee for European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC) conferences.  He has edited 2 books; the recent one on “Broadband Optical Access Networks and Fiber-to-the Home” published by Wiley in August 2006.

He is a Fellow of both IEEE’s LEOS (Lasers and Electro-Optical Society) and OSA (Optical Society of America).  He has served as a Technical Advisor to industrial R and D labs of ITRI (Industrial Technology Research Institute) in Hsinchu, Taiwan and ASTRI (Applied Science and Technology Research Institute) in the Hong Kong Science and Technology Park.  He has been a Technical Advisor to National Chiao-Tung University’s Research Excellence Projects in Photonics.  In addition to being a Nanyang Professor at the School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University, NTU, in Singapore. He is currently also a Guest Chair Professor of National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, and a Bao Yu-Gang Guest Chair Professor of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.

 

He has over 140 papers and conference presentations, several invited book chapters and 9 patents. He was an Assoc. Editor for IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology and IEEE Photonics Technology Letters and was on the technical program committees for OFC, Optical Amplifier Topical Meeting, Topical Meeting on Optical Networking and NFOEC. He has been a Guest Professor of National Chiao Tung University (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Tsinghwa University (Beijing). He also served as an Advisor to ITRI (Industrial Technology Research Institute), Hsinchu, Taiwan and CHT-TL (Telecom Labs of Chung-Hwa Telecom), Taiwan. He is a Fellow of both IEEE and OSA.

Honors & Awards

• Fellow, IEEE, 1991 (IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, LEOS)
• Fellow, Optical Society of America (OSA), 1983.
• Fellow, Photonics Society of Chinese Americans, 1995.
• IEE (London, UK) Electronics Letters Premium, 1980, for the paper on the first proposal and experimental demonstration of dispersion-shifted single-mode fiber for high-speed long-haul optical fiber communication systems.
• Gowri Memorial Paper Award, (India) IETE (Inst. of Electron. & Telecom Eng), 1986.
• IBM Graduate Fellowship, University of California at Berkeley, 1971.

Research Interests

• Lightwave Technologies and Optical Communications Systems
  
• Photonics Systems for Broadband Information Networks
• Broadband Access Networks (FTTP, HFC, PON, et.)
• Photonic Sensors for Biomedical Applications

Recent Projects

• Broadband Optical Access Systems and Technologies

Representative Publications

• Chinlon Lin and Kung-Li Deng (Invited), "Broadband Optical Access Networks," IEEE/OSA CLEO-Pacific Rim, Tokyo, Japan, October 2001.
• Chinlon Lin (Invited), "Broadband Optical Access over Hybrid Fiber-Coax (HFC) Networks," IEEE LEOS Summer Topical Meeting on Broadband Optical Networks, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, July 2000.
• S. Ovadia and Chinlon Lin (Invited Paper), "Performance Characteristics and Applications of Hybrid Multichannel AM-VSB/M-QAM Video Lightwave Transmission Systems," IEEE J. Lightwave Tech., 16, 1171 (July 1998).
• Chinlon Lin (Invited), "Hybrid WDM Systems for High-Capacity Video Trunking Applications," 1996 IEEE LEOS Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, November 18-21, 1996.
• Chinlon Lin, S. Ovadia, L. Eskildsen and W. T. Andersen (Invited), "Multichannel AM/QAM Video Systems for Hybrid Fiber/Coax Distribution Networks," IOOC'95 (International Conference on Integ. Optics and Optical Commun.), Hong Kong, July 1995.
• Chinlon Lin and W. I. Way, (Invited), "Optical Amplifiers for Multi-Wavelength Broadband Distribution Networks," ECOC'91, Paris, France, September 1991.
• Chinlon Lin (Book Chapter), "Fiber Raman Lasers," Chapter 7 in Tunable Lasers, Topics in Applied Physics, Vol. 59, eds. L. F. Mollenauer, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1987.
• Chinlon Lin, C. K. Chan and L. K. Chen (Invited), "FTTP over Cable TV's Hybrid Fiber Coax Networks," ECOC (European Conference on Optical Communications), Paper Mo4.1.3, Rimini, Italy, September 2003.
• Chinlon Lin (Plenary Talk), "Photonics for Broadband Communications-Past, Present and Future", 8th OECC (Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference), October 14-16, 2003, Shanghai, China.
• Anders Bjarklev and Chinlon Lin (Invited), "Photonic Crystal Fibers for Lightwave Communications-What is in the Future", IEEE LEOS (Lasers and Electro-Optical Society) Annual Meeting, October 22-25, 2005, Sydney, Australia.
• K. K. Chow, C. Shu, Chinlon Lin and A. Bjarklev, "Polarization-insensitive widely tunable wavelength converter based on four-wave mixing in a dispersion-flattened nonlinear photonic crystal Fiber," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, March 2005.
• Z. X. Wang, Chinlon Lin and C. K. Chan, "Demonstration of a Single-Fiber Self-Healing CWDM Metro Access Ring Network with Uni-directional OADM". IEEE Photonics Technology Letters vol.18 no.1, pp.163-165, Jan. 2006.
• Li Huo, Chinlon Lin, Yick Keung Suen*, Siu Kai Kong*, and Lei Jin, "Laser-Induced Fluorescence and Raman Scattering in a Liquid-Core Optical Fiber-based on Hollow-Core Photonic-Crystal Fibers (PCF)" at OWLS9, the 9th International Conference on Optics Within Life Sciences, Paper O5-06, Nov. 2006, National Yangming Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.