Paul Eliot Green, Jr. (January 14, 1924 – March 22, 2018[1]) was an American electrical engineer who researched spread spectrum and radar technology.
This involved co-creating the Rake receiver (with Robert Price) and supervision of its deployment in a first-ever spread-spectrum system, the Lincoln F9C (1950).
[4] Following his studies, Green and Price (at MIT Lincoln Laboratory), attempting to bounce radar waves off the planet Venus (1958).
He also designed the LASA (Large Aperture Seismic Array) for earthquake prediction, first deployed in Montana and Norway (at NORSAR) in 1963.
Since 1988 he headed the optical communications (focusing on wavelength division multiplexing) research group that was acquired by Tellabs company where he worked 1997-2000.