PAUL R. PRUCNAL, Professor
B314 Engineering Quadrangle

Cindy Menkes, Assistant
609-258-0104
609-258-2158 (f)

Fields of Research Activity: Optical networks.
Experience: He has done research and taught courses in the areas of fiber-optic communications systems, quantum electronics, and digital signal processing, and has published more than 100 journal papers in the areas of his research interests.
Biography: Paul R. Prucnal was born in Norwalk, CT, on June 18, 1953. He received the A.B. degree from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME in 1974, and the M.S., M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University in 1976, 1978, and 1979 respectively. From 1979 to 1984 he was an Assistant Professor, and from 1984 to 1987, an Associate Professor at Columbia University. In February 1988 he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. He is currently Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications and Applied Optics.
Membership in Societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi, IEEE Optical Society of America, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers
Typical Publications:

  1. ``Performance comparison of asynchronous and synchronous code-division multiple access techniques for fiber-optic local area networks,'' (with W.C. Kwong and P.A. Perrier), IEEE Trans. Comm., Sept. 1991.
  2. ``Synchronous CDMA demonstration for fiber-optic networks with optical processing,'' (with W.C. Kwong), Elec. Lett., 26, No. 4, 1990-1992.
  3. ``Sideband-difference multiple access (SDMA) lightwave network,'' (with W.C. Kwong), Elec. Lett., 27, No. 2, 173-175.
  4. ``Demonstration of packet switching through an integrated-optic tree switch using photoconductive logic gates,'' (with K.K. Goel, Y. Shimazu, M. Milbrodt, E. Desurvire, and B. Tell), Elec. Lett., 26, No. 5, 287-288.
  5. ``Optically-Processed routing for fast packet switching,'' (with P.A. Perrier), Lightwave Comm. Mag., 1, No. 1, 54-67.
  6. ``Self-routing photonic switching with optically-processed control,'' (with P.A. Perrier), Invited Paper, Opt. Eng., 29, No. 3, 170-182.
  7. ``High-dimensionality shared-medium photonic switch,'' (with P.A. Perrier), IEEE Trans. Comm., in press.
  8. ``Demonstration of an optical self-clocked time-division switch,'' (with P.A. Perrier and M.W. Chbat), Fiber and Integrated Optics, 8, No. 4, 281-291.

May 13, 1998