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News Release from: Southampton Photonics
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 05 June 2001
Southampton's Payne wins Basic Research
Award
Prof David Payne, cofounder and chairman of Southampton Photonics, will receive the Basic Research Award of the Eduard Rhein Foundation, on 20th October in Munich.
Prof David Payne, cofounder and chairman of Southampton Photonics, will receive the foremost European technology award, the Basic Research Award of the Eduard Rhein Foundation, on 20th October in Munich He is being recognised for the invention of the EDFA (erbium-doped fibre amplifier), the enabling technology for today's fibre-optic telecommunication networks and the Internet
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 13 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The presentation is claimed to be the foremost technology award in Europe with previous winners including Tim Berners-Lee for the World Wide Web, Thomas Haug for the GSM digital telephone system, and Ray Dolby for sound systems.
The Bavarian State Minister Erwin Huber will present the awards during a ceremony to take place in the Hall of Fame at the Deutsches Museum in Munich.
Financially, it is the largest of its kind with a total award value of DM300,000 to be distributed between the winners.
Prof Payne was probably the world's first PhD student in the field of optical-fibre communication and won several previous awards for inventing the EDFA in 1998, including the prestigious Benjamin Franklin medal in the USA.
After his discovery, Prof Payne continued his work at Southampton University's world-renowned Optoelectronics Research Centre and cofounded Southampton Photonics in February 2000.
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