Douglas Pinnow

Dr. Pinnow graduated with distinction from Cornell University as a Bachelor of Engineering Physics in 1961.  Upon graduation, he received a dual appointment as a Naval Officer and a Nuclear Engineer with the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission He worked with Admiral Rickover (Father of the Atomic Submarine) stationed in Washington, DC.  There, he continued his studies in physics at The Catholic University of America where he received a Ph.D. in physics as a NASA Fellow in 1967.  Dr. Pinnow went on to become a Member of the Technical Staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey where he served as Supervisor of the Quantum Electronics Group in the Solid-State Device Development Laboratory.  While at Bell Labs, he made pioneering contributions to the emerging fields of fiber optics and electro-optics technologies used for the Internet.

After eight years at Bell Labs, Dr. Pinnow moved to the West Coast where he became Assistant Manager of the Chemical-Physics Department at the Hughes Research Laboratory in Malibu, California.  In 1979, he returned to the East Coast to become Director of R&D at Times Fiber Communications in Wallingford, Connecticut where he participated in the Company’s successful initial public offering (IPO) of stock.  Four years later, he joined the Newport Corporation of Costa Mesa, California, as Vice President. In 1995, he founded and served as Chief Technical Officer of Electronic Monitoring Systems.

While working at the Hughes Research Laboratory, he also served as an adjunct professor at UCLA where he developed a graduate course in Optical Communications.   More recently, he taught a course in Electro-Optics at UC Irvine.

Dr. Pinnow has been engaged in business and technology consulting since he retired from Electronic Monitoring Systems after his company was sold in 2003.  He passed the U.S. patent bar exam in 2012 to become a registered patent practitioner. He has maintained a lifelong interest in nuclear energy production, fission and fusion, since his early experience working with Admiral Rickover. During the past decade he has been devoted to the confirmation of solid-state fusion

Dr. Pinnow has published more than fifty technical papers and has received numerous patents. His scientific papers have been cited over 1,900 times in peer-reviewed articles published by others. In 1989, he was selected to become a Fellow of Optica (Optical Society of America).

Douglas Pinnow, PhD: doug.pinnow3@gmail.com