In Memoriam
Linn F. Mollenauer, 1937–2021
Remembering a scientist whose work on optical solitons transformed the fields of nonlinear optics, ultrashort pulse generation and optical communications.
Linn F. Mollenauer (left) and Curtis Menyuk in 1989, during a visit to the General Physics Institute in Moscow, Russia. [Courtesy of C. Menyuk]
Linn Frederick Mollenauer, whose work on optical solitons transformed the fields of nonlinear optics, ultrashort pulse generation and optical communications, died on 28 July 2021 at the age of 84.
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