After completing my PhD in physics at Penn State University, I spent 50 years in research in Optical Communications at Corning Inc. I led the research team that invented and developed components that enabled the first non repeater - trans Atlantic and trans - Pacific optical communication under sea systems. I served on the European Conference on Optical Communications for 10 years, participating in programs all over Europe. I also, coordinating research programs in Russia including the General Physics Institute, Moscow, not to ever return. I often served as a technical advisor to the CEO at Corning Inc. I worked with professors at Cornell U, U of Michigan, City University of New York and Lehigh U., serving on PhD thesis committees. I am a Fellow of Optica. I have been granted 140 U S patents, and have hundreds of publications in quality journals. I served in the U S Army during the Vietnam war.