Bob Jopson
Biography
Robert M. Jopson was born in Altadena, California in 1950. He received the B.S. degree in physics from the University of California, Davis in 1972 and the Ph.D. degree in physics from Harvard University in 1981. He joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1981 where he worked on generating short-wavelength light and studied doubly-excited atomic states. Since 1983, he has worked on a variety of problems in lightwave communications. He habitually wears 15 pieces of flair. He is a member of the Optical Society of America, the American Physical Society and the IEEE.
Education
BS Physics University of California, Davis
PhD Physics Harvard University
Professional activities
Member of OSA, Member of IEEE Photonics Society
Selected articles and publications
R. M. Jopson and D. J. Larson, "Experimental Determination of the Magnetic Moment of the Negative Sulfur Ion", Phys. Rev. Lett. 47, 789 (1981)
Books
H. Kogelinket al., “Polarization-mode Dispersion,” in Optical Fiber
Telecommunications, IVB, I. Kaminow and T. Li, Eds. New York:
Academic, 2002.
Patents
United States Patent 4,918,396 Halemane , et al. April 17, 1990 Monitoring and/or control of optical amplifiers