Washington, DC --- Dr. E. Joseph Friebele, a supervisory
research physicist at the Naval Research Laboratory's (NRL's)
Optical Science Division, is the 1996 winner of the NRL Sigma
Xi's Applied Science Award.
Dr. Friebele was cited "for
his outstanding contributions in optical materials, especially
in the area of radiation effects on optical fibers, which has
led to hardening against nuclear radiation by optimizing fabrication
parameters, and contributions towards the development of novel
techniques for writing Bragg gratings in fibers for smart structure
applications."
Dr. Friebele is a supervisory
research physicist and Head of the Optical Materials Section
in the Optical Physics Branch of the Optical Sciences Division.
He received his B.S. in physics and mathematics from Davidson
College, Davidson, NC, in 1968 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees
in electrical engineering from Vanderbilt University, Nashville,
TN, in 1970 and 1973.
Dr. Friebele was a National Research
Council Research Associate at NRL from 1973 to 1975. Since 1975,
he has been an NRL employee and has served part time as a program
manager for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Dr
Friebele's research interests include the development of optical
fibers for sensors in smart structures, the effects of radiation
on optical fiber waveguide and optical materials, new optical
materials for advanced systems, nonlinear optical materials,
and defect centers in glass and glass ceramics. He has authored
or co-authored over 225 publications in scientific journals and
books, has presented more than 100 papers at US and foreign scientific
meetings, including numerous invited talks, and holds six
patents.
Dr. Friebele has been a Scoutmaster
for eight years, and he enjoys sailboat racing, basketball, soccer,
hiking and camping.
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