Won-Tien Tsang

OSA Fellow Won-Tien Tsang graduated from The Georgia Institute of Technology in 1971 and received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1976. Tsang joined Bell Labs after getting Ph.D., and he contributed many papers in the published technical literature. He received the 1982 Adolph Lomb Medal “in recognition of his contributions to the development of molecular-beam epitaxy (MBE) lasers for optical communication systems and novel structures for semiconductor lasers, including the strip-buried-heterostructure (SBH) lasers, electrically injected multiquantum-well lasers, and SBH lasers with distributed Bragg reflectors suitable for integrated optics application.” In 2000, he and his team won OSA’s Paul F. Forman Engineering Excellence Award “For the development of high-performance integrated multiple-quantum-well electro-absorption modulated distributed-feedback lasers, and associated epitaxial growth, fabrication, and characterization methodologies for high reproducible manufacture.”