It is with great sorrow to announce that Professor Chinlon Lin, who was a Professor of Photonics, at Faculty of Engineering, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, has passed away on December 28, 2024. Professor Lin was among the pioneers of optical fiber communications and optical broadband access. He has made tremendous contributions for the technology advancement. On behalf of the Department of Information Engineering, CUHK, we would like to express our sincere condolences to Professor Lin’s family. He will be truly 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 with Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) as Chair Professor of Photonics and Director of Center for Advanced Research in Photonics, and as a Professor of 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).
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