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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). He is currently a fellow of IEEE and OSA.

Education

Professor Paul Prucnal received his A.B., graduating summa cum laude from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine in 1974. He earned his M.S., M.Phil. and Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University in 1976, 1978, and 1979, respectively.

Biography

He currently resides in Princeton, NJ with his wife, Mindy and two daughters, Katie and Jenny.

Research

Paul Prucnal joined the faculty at Columbia University in 1979. He was a member of the Columbia Radiation Laboratory, where he performed groundbreaking work in optical code-division multiple access (OCDMA) and self-routed photonic switching. In 1988, he joined the faculty at Princeton University as a Professor of Electrical Engineering. His seminal work in optical CDMA initiated a new research field in which more than 1000 papers have now been published. In 1993, he invented the "Terahertz Optical Asymmetric Demultiplexer," the first optical switch capable of operating at Tb/s pulse trains. With support from DARPA in the 1990's, his group was the first to demonstrate an all-optical 100 gigabit/sec photonic packet switching node and optical multiprocessor interconnect.

Professor Prucnal is editor of the book, Optical Code Division Multiple Access: Fundamentals and Applications and is an Area Editor of the 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, and a member of a number of honors societies, including Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi. He was the recipient of the Rudolf Kingslake Medal for his paper entitled "Self-routing photonic switching with optically-processed control," and has been awarded with multiple teaching awards during his tenure at Princeton University.

Some of his most recent research has concerned the development of the "photonic neuron," a high speed optical computing device modeled on neural networks in the human body.

Recognitions, Honors, and Awards

• E-Council Excellence in Teaching for ELE 203, 2006, 2012
• School of Engineering and Applied Science Distinguished Teacher Award, 2009
• Walter Curtis Johnson Prize for Teaching Excellence, 2009
• E-Council Excellence in Teaching for ELE 454, 2008
• SEAS Distinguished Teaching Award (2009)
• Walter Curtis Johnson Prize for Teaching Excellence (2009)
• Princeton University Graduate Mentoring Award (2006)
• Gold Medal Award from the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics at the Comenius University, for leadership in the field of Optics 2006
• Fellow of the Optical Society of America (1997)
• Fellow of the IEEE (1992)
• Rudolf Kingslake Medal and Prize, SPIE, for the most noteworthy original paper in Optical Engineering (1990)
• Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha of Maine Chapter, 1973

References

1. ^ "Professor Paul Prucnal". Retrieved 2013-07-11.
2. ^ "Paul Prucnal". princeton.edu. 2010-9-10. Retrieved 2013-07-11. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
3. Prucnal, Paul (2010). Optical Code Division Multiple Access: Fundamentals and Applications (Optical Science and Engineering).
4. Prucnal, P.R. ; Columbia Radiation Laboratory, Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA ; Santoro, M.A. ; Sehgal, S. (1986). "Ultrafast All-Optical Synchronous Multiple Access Fiber Networks". Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal on. 4 (9): 1484–1493. doi:10.1109/JSAC.1986.1146484. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
5. ^ "Paul Prucnal". winlab.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2013-7-15. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
6. "Terahertz optical asymmetric demultiplexer". Google Patents. Retrieved 2013-7-16. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
7. "Ultra Fast Optical Systems Inc". Heavy Reading. Retrieved 2013-7-16. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
8. Sokoloff JP, Prucnal PR, Glesk I, Kane M. (1993). "A terahertz optical asymmetric demultiplexor (TOAD)". Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE. 5 (7): 787–790. doi:10.1109/68.229807. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
9. "Prucnal making light work to accelerate the Internet". Princeton University. Retrieved 2013-7-16. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
10. ^ "Rudolf Kingslake Medal and Prize". SPIE. Retrieved 2013-7-16. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
11. "Photonic neuron may compute a billion times faster than brain circuits". Princeton University. Retrieved 2013-7-16. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
12. "Fellow Class of 1992". IEEE. Retrieved 2013-7-16. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)

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