José Capmany
Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
José Capmany was born in Madrid, Spain,
in 1962. He received the Ingeniero de Telecomunicacion
degree from the Universidad
Politécnica de Madrid in 1987. From 1988
to 1991, he worked as a Research Assistant at
the Departamento de Tecnología Fotónica,
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, where
he received the Ph.D. degree in 1991. In
1991 he moved to the Departamento de Comunicaciones,
Universidad Politécnica de
Valencia, where he started the activities on optical communications
and photonics, founding theOptical Communications Group
(www.gco.upv.es). He has been an Associate Professor from1992 to
1996, and Full Professor in optical communications, systems, and
networks since 1996. Since 2002, he has also been the Director of
the IMCO2 Research Institute, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia.
His research activities and interests cover a wide range of subjects
related to optical communications including optical signal processing,
fiber resonators, fiber gratings, RF filters, SCM, WDM, and
CDMA transmission, wavelength conversion, and optical bistability.
He has published over 200 papers in international refereed journals
and conferences and has been a Member of the Technical Programme
Committees of the European Conference on Optical Communications
(ECOC), the Optical Fiber Conference (OFC), the Integrated
Optics and Optical Communications Conference (IOOC),
CLEO Europe.
Biography Updated on 20 September 2004
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