Award Winners

Distinguished Lecturers Award
Yearsort icon Award Winner Description
2012 Wood-Hi Cheng The Art and Science of Packaging Photonic Devices and Modules / Broadband Chromium-Doped Fiber Amplifier for Next-Generation Optical Communication Systems
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/jun11/Career-Lecturers.html
2012 Andrew D. Ellis Ultra High Capacity Optical Transmission Systems
2012 Simon Poole Confessions of a Serial Entrepreneur: 30 Years of Photonic Start-ups in Academia and Industry
2012 Lianshan Yan Polarization in Fiber Optics
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/jun11/Career-Lecturers.html
2011 Wood-Hi Cheng The Art and Science of Packaging Photonic Devices and Modules
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/jun11/Career-Lecturers.html
2011 Katsumi Kishino GaN-based Nanocolumn Emitters and related Technologies
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/jun11/Career-Lecturers.html
2011 Lorenzo Pavesi NanoSilicon NanoPhotonics
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/jun11/Career-Lecturers.html
2011 Lianshan Yan Polarization in Fiber Optics
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/jun11/Career-Lecturers.html
2010 Gaetano Assanto Nematicons: Spacial Optical Solitons in Nematic Liquid Crystals
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/jun09/DistinguishedLecturers.html
2010 Sarath Gunapala III-V Quantum Structures for Infrared Detection
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/jun10/DistinguishedLecturers.html
2010 Sajeev John Photonic Band Gap Materials: Light Trapping Crystals
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/jun09/DistinguishedLecturers.html
2010 Tetsuya Mizumoto Optical Nonreciprocal Devices for Integrated Photonics
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/jun09/DistinguishedLecturers.html
2010 Lorenzo Pavesi Silicon Photonics: A new Technology Platform to enable Low Cost and High Performance Photonics
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/jun10/DistinguishedLecturers.html
2010 Nabeel Riza Hybrid Optical Sensors for Extreme Temperature Measurement in Next Generation Higher Efficiency Greener Power Plants
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/jun09/DistinguishedLecturers.html
2009 Gaetano Assanto Nematicons: Spatial Optical Solitons in Nematic Liquid Crystals
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/jun09/DistinguishedLecturers.html
2009 John C. Cartledge Optical and Electronic Signal Processing for Fiber-Optic Communications
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/jun08/distinguished.html
2009 John M. Dudley Nonlinear Fiber Optics and Supercontinuum Generation: New Fibers, New Opportunities
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/jun08/distinguished.html
2009 Sajeev John Photonic Band Gap Materials: Light Trapping Crystals
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/jun09/DistinguishedLecturers.html
2009 Prem Kumar Fiber-Optic Quantum Communications and Information Processing
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/jun08/distinguished.html
2009 Tetsuya Mizumoto Optical Nonreciprocal Devices for Integrated Photonics
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/jun09/DistinguishedLecturers.html
2009 Loukas Paraschis Critical Photonics Challenges of Future Optical Networking
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/jun09/DistinguishedLecturers.html
2009 Nabeel Riza Hybrid Optical Sensors for Extreme Temperature Measurement in Next Generation Higher Efficiency Greener Power Plants
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/jun09/DistinguishedLecturers.html
2008 John C. Cartledge Optical and Electronic Signal Processing for Fiber-Optic Communications
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/jun08/distinguished.html
2008 Weng Chow Many-Body Effects and Their Influences on Semiconductor Lasers
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/jun08/distinguished.html
2008 Silvano Donati Coupling in Lasers and Applications to Self-Mixing Interferometry and Chaotic Cryptography
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/jun08/distinguished.html
2008 John M. Dudley Nonlinear Fiber Optics and Supercontinuum Generation: New Fibers, New Opportunities
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/jun08/distinguished.html
2008 Prem Kumar Fiber-Optic Quantum Communications and Information Processing
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/jun08/distinguished.html
2008 El-Hang Lee Optical Printed Circuit Board (O-PCB) and VLSI Photonics
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/jun08/distinguished.html
2008 Colin J. McKinstrie Optical Signal Processing by Parametric Devices
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/jun08/distinguished.html
2008 Cun-Zheng Ning Nanolasers Based on Semiconductor Nanowires and Surface Plasmons
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/jun08/distinguished.html
2007 Weng Chow Microscopic Theory and Its Applications to Semiconductor Laser Device Engineering
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/jun08/distinguished.html
2007 Silvano Donati Coupling Dynamics in Semiconductor Lasers and Applications to Self-mixing Interferometry and Chaotic Cryptography
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/jun08/distinguished.html
2007 El-Hang Lee Optical Printed Circuit Board (O-PCB) and VLSI Photonic Chips
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/jun08/distinguished.html
2007 Colin J. McKinstrie Optical Parametric Devices
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/jun08/distinguished.html
2007 Masaya Notomi All-Optical Control of Photonics
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/jun07/distinguished.html
2007 Cun-Zheng Ning Nanoscale Imaging of Semiconductor and Biological Systems
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/jun08/distinguished.html
2007 John O'Brien Photonic Crystal Devices
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/jun07/distinguished.html
2007 Jorge Rocca Table-Top Soft X-Ray Lasers
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/jun07/distinguished.html
2006 Toshihiko Baba Photonic crystal, nanolaser, slow light, negative index optics, silicon photonics, photonic molecule
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/aug07/distinguished.html
2006 Servio D. Cova Photon Counting Microdetectors and their Applications
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/aug07/distinguished.html
2006 Masaya Notomi All-Optical Control of Light in Photonic Crystals
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/aug07/distinguished.html
2006 Bishnu P. Pal Guided Wave Optical Components
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/aug07/distinguished.html
2006 John O'Brien Photonic Crystal Devices
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/aug07/distinguished.html
2006 David V. Plant Agile All-Photonics Networks – A Vision of Optical Networks for 2012 and Beyond
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/aug07/distinguished.html
2006 Jorge Rocca Table-Top Soft X-Ray Lasers
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/aug07/distinguished.html
2006 M. Selim Unlu Nanoscale Imaging of Semiconductor and Biological Systems
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/aug07/distinguished.html
2005 Shun Lien Chuang A Tutorial on the Physics of Quantum-Well and Quantum-Dot Lasers: What All Those Experiments Really Mean
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/newsletters/leos/jun06/focus.html
2005 Servio D. Cova Photon Counting Microdetectors and their Applications
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/newsletters/leos/jun06/focus.html
2005 Christi Madsen Signal Processing with Optical Filters - Making a Multi-Colored Engine
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/newsletters/leos/jun06/focus.html
2005 Bishnu P. Pal Guided Wave Optical Components
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/newsletters/leos/jun06/focus.html
2005 David V. Plant Agile All-Photonics Networks – A Vision of Optical Networks for 2012 and Beyond
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/newsletters/leos/jun06/focus.html
2005 Philip Russell New Age Fiber Crystals
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/newsletters/leos/jun06/focus.html
2005 M. Selim Unlu Nanoscale Imaging of Semiconductor and Biological Systems
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/newsletters/leos/jun06/focus.html
2005 Marcus K. Weldon Fiber to the X: When, Where, How, and How Much? or I Want My Broadband IPTV: the When, Why and How of IP Video Services Over FTTx Architectures
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/newsletters/leos/jun06/focus.html
2004 Shun Lien Chuang A Tutorial on the Physics of Quantum-Well and Quantum-Dot Lasers: What All Those Experiments Really Mean
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2004 J. Gary Eden Microplasma Arrays: Photonic Devices for Emission and Photodetection
sites/default/files/04-05_DLs.pdf
2004 Dieter Jaeger Photomixing and Microwave Photonics
sites/default/files/04-05_DLs.pdf
2004 Chennupati Jagadish Quantum Well and Quantum Dot Intermixing for Optoelectronic Device Integration
sites/default/files/04-05_DLs.pdf
2004 Bahram Javidi Improved Resolution and Depth of Field Three Dimensional Sensing and Imaging by using Moving Micro-optics Array Integral Imaging
sites/default/files/04-05_DLs.pdf
2004 Christi Madsen Signal Processing with Optical Filters - Making a Multi-Colored Engine
sites/default/files/04-05_DLs.pdf
2004 Susmu Noda Photonic Nanostructure and Devices Including Photonic Crystals
sites/default/files/04-05_DLs.pdf
2004 Philip Russell New Age Fiber Crystals
sites/default/files/04-05_DLs.pdf
2003 John Paul Raj David Physics & Design of Low Noise Avalanche Photodetectors
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/newsletters/leos/jun04/distlecture.html
2003 J. Gary Eden Microplasma Arrays: Photonic Devices for Emission and Photodetection
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/newsletters/leos/jun04/distlecture.html
2003 Chennupati Jagadish Quantum Well and Quantum Dot Intermixing for Optoelectronic Device Integration
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/newsletters/leos/jun04/distlecture.html
2003 Bahram Javidi Three Dimensional (3D) Television: 3D Imaging, and 3D Display Technologies
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/newsletters/leos/jun04/distlecture.html
2003 Ashok Krishnamoorthy The Intimate Integration of VCSELs with VLSI Circuits
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/newsletters/leos/jun03/career.html
2003 Young Hee Lee Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal Nanolasers
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/newsletters/leos/jun04/distlecture.html
2003 Daniel Mittleman Terahertz Photonics
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/newsletters/leos/jun04/distlecture.html
2003 Susumu Noda Photonic Nanostructure and Devices Including Photonic Crystals
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/newsletters/leos/jun04/distlecture.html
2002 Paul Corkum From Femtoseconds to Attoseconds--Coulomb Explosions to Dielectric Modification
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/newsletters/leos/jun03/career.html
2002 John Paul Raj David Physics & Design of Low Noise Avalanche Photodetectors
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/newsletters/leos/jun03/career.html
2002 Amin N. Dharamsi Advanced Optical Sensing using Laser Modulation Spectroscopy for Industrial and Scientific Applications
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/newsletters/leos/jun03/career.html
2002 Benjamin Eggleton Microstructured Optical Fiber Devices Enabling Next Generation Lightwave Systems
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/newsletters/leos/jun03/career.html
2002 Claire Gmachl Quantum Cascade Lasers
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/newsletters/leos/jun03/career.html
2002 Ashok Krishnamoorthy The Intimate Integration of VCSELs with VLSI Circuits
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/newsletters/leos/jun03/career.html
2002 Daniel Mittleman Terahertz Photonics
2002 Hugo Thienpont Plastic Micro-Optical Modules for Parallel Free-Space Optical Interconnect
2001 James Biard The Invention of the LED
2001 Milton Chang Photonic Career Paths
2001 Kent D. Choquette Vertical Cavity Lasers: New Light for the Information Age
2001 Paul Corkum From Fentoseconds to Attoseconds--Coulomb Explosions to Dielectric Modification
2001 Dennis Deppe Quantum Dot Lasers and Microcavity Light Emiters
2001 Amin N. Dharamsi Advanced Optical Sensing using Laser Modulation Spectroscopy for Industrial and Scientific Applications
2001 Hugo Thienpont Plastic Micro-Optical Modules for Parellel Free-Space Optical Interconnect
2001 Rick Trebino The Musical Score, The Fundamental Theorem, and the Measurement of the Shortest Events Ever Created
2000 Kent D. Choquette Vertical Cavity Lasers: New Light for the Information Age.
2000 Ursula Keller Modelocking of Solid State Lasers.
2000 Shuji Nakamura GaN Blue Diode Lasers.
2000 Rick Trebino The Musical Score, The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra, and the Measurement of the Shortest Events Ever Created.
2000 Alan Willner Reconfigurable Multiple-Wavelength Optical Systems and Networks
1999 Jens Buus Semiconductor Lasers for WDM Systems
1999 Richard De La Rue Photonic Crystals and Photonic Microstructures.
1999 Luke Mawst High-Power Aluminum-Free Semiconductor Diode Lasers.
1999 Klaus Peterman Noise and Feedback Phenomena in Laser Diodes.
1999 Alan Willner Reconfigurable Multiple-Wavelength Optical Systems and Networks.
1999 Xi-Cheng Zhang Free Space THz Optoelectronics
1998 Pallab Bhattacharya Quantum Well and Quantum Dot Lasers: From Strained Layer and Self-Organised Epitaxy to High-Performance Devices.
1998 Jens Buus Semiconductor Lasers for WDM Systems.
1998 James Coleman Novel Integrable Semiconductor Laser Structures
1998 Osamu Wada Progress in Femtosecond Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices.
1998 Xi-Cheng Zhang Free Space THz Optoelectronics.
1997 James Coleman Novel Integrable Semiconductor Laser Structures.
1997 Katsunari Okamoto Integrated Optics in Planar Lightwave Circuits.
1997 Joachim Wolter Low-Dimensional Semiconductor Structures and their Applications in Electro-Optic Devices and Systems.
1996 Stephen R. Forrest Optoelectronics with Organic Thin Films.
1996 Kam Y. Lau Microphotonics - an Adaptive Optoelectronic Packaging Technology using Silicon Surface - Micromachined, Actuated Alignment-structures.
1996 Kevin L. Lear High-Efficiency Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers.
1995 Niloy Dutta Optical Interconnection Technology for Large Computing and Switching Systems.
1995 Rodney S. Tucker Photonic Packet Switching.
1995 Peter Zory Blue-Green Quantum Well Lasers.
1994 Constance Chang-Hasnain Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser Arrays.
1994 Peter Zory Blue-Green Quantum Well Lasers.
1994 Peter S. Guilfoyle Digital Optical Computing.
1994 Kenneth Walker Optical Fiber Research and Development.
1993 P. Daniel Dapkus High Efficiency Quantum Well Laser Structures for Optical Interconnection.
1993 Steven Grubb Recent Advances in Rare Earth Doped Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers.
1993 H. Scott Hinton Free-Space Digital Optics.
1992 John E. Bowers Ultrafast Optoelectronics.
1992 Emmanuel Desurvire Fiber Amplifiers for a Fifth Generation of Lightwave Communications.
1992 Gregory Olsen Moving Optoelectronics Technology from the Lab to the Market.
1991 Jack Jewell Vertical Cavity Lasers and Microresonators.
1991 David F. Welch Recent Advances in High Power Semiconductor Laser Diodes.
1991 James F. Young An Extreme Ultraviolet Holographic Microscope.
1990 James Fujimoto Femtosecond Optics and Ultrafast Studies of Materials and Devices.
1990 Thomas L. Koch Design, Performance, and Photonic Integration of Tunable Semiconductor Lasers.
1990 Linn Mollenauer Ultra Long Distance Transmission of the (Very Near) Future: Solitons in an All-Optical System.
1989 Rodney Alferness Integrated Optics for Lightwave Systems.
1989 David Auston Ultrafast Optoelectronics.
1989 Richard Linke High-Capacity Coherent Optical Fiber Communications.
1988 N. Anders Olsson Optical Amplifiers.
1988 Andrew Weiner Femtosecond Optical Pulse Shaping and Applications.
1987 Robert Leheny Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits: Present and Future Materials and Designs.
1987 Richart Slusher Squeezed States: Quantum Photonics with Silent Light.
1986 David Miller Nonlinear Optics and Electro-Optics with Quantum Wells.
1986 Richard Osgood Laser Microfabrication for Electronics.
1985 David Bloom Ultrafast Optical Electronics.
1985 Paul Henry Coherent Lightwave Communications.
1984 Robert Bartolini Laser Recording of Mass Memory Data: The Potential Solution to the Information Explosion.
1984 William Streifer Semiconductor Diode Lasers.