William H. Hayt, Jr.于美国普度大学获理学学士和硕士学位,于伊利诺伊大学获哲学博士学位。Hayt教授曾在相关行业中工作过4年,而后他再次回到普度大学担任电子工程学院教授及学院负责人,直至1986年获得名誉教授称号并退休。除了本书以外,Hayt教授还撰写了其他3本教材,其中Engineering Electromagnetkic一书现已由McGraw-Hill公司出版至第八版。Hayt教授加入了Eta Kappa Nu、Tau Beta Pi、Sigma xi、Sigma Delta Chi等科研团体,同时也是IEEE会士、美国工程教育协会ASEE和美国高校广播台协会NAEB会员。Hayt教授的在普度大学任教期间,获得了包括“最佳教师奖”Best。Teacher Award在内的诸多教学荣誉。Purdue''s Book of Great’leachers普度最伟大教师名册亦于1999年4月23日收录了他的名字。这份被刻在普度纪念堂的展示板上永久展示的名册,汇集了225位在普度就职的老师,其中有些仍在世,有些已经离我们而去。正是由于他们将毕生的精力都投入在教书育人和学术科研上,他们的学生和同事才推举他们作为最优秀的教育者。
A native of Los Angeles, California, John A. Buck received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1977 and 1982, and his B.S. in Engineering from UCLA in 1975. In 1982, he joined the faculty of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech, where he has remained for the past 28 years. His research areas and publications have centered within the fields of ultrafast switching, nonlinear optics, and optical fiber communications. He is the author of the graduate text Fundamentals of Optical Fibers Wiley Interscience, which is now in its second edition. Awards include three institute teaching awards and the IEEE Third Millenium Medal. When not glued to his computer or confined to the lab, Dr. Buck enjoys music, hiking, and photography.