Award Winners
Year |
Award Winner | Description |
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| 2011 | Alan Willner |
For technical advances in optical fiber communications technologies that have enabled significant improvements in the performance and reliability of wavelength-division-multiplexed systems.
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/aug11/Career-EngRecipient.html |
| 2010 | Wood-Hi Cheng |
For design, development and commercialization compact solid-state laser modules.
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/aug10/EngineeringAward.html |
| 2009 | Jose A. R. Salcedo |
In recognition of outstanding technical and leadership contributions to pulsed fiber lasers, in particular all-fiber ring laser architectures, and of his pioneering efforts aimed at developing, promoting and commercializing this technology in Portugal – and later in international markets.
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/aug09/Jose_R._Salcedo.html |
| 2008 | Kent D. Choquette |
For development of the monolithic selectively oxidized vertical cavity surface emitting laser.
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/aug08/choquette.html |
| 2007 |
Andreas Umbach Gunter Unterborsch Dirk Trommer |
For the research, development and fabrication of advanced ultra-high speed photodetectors.
sites/default/files/07_EA.pdf |
| 2006 |
John H. Marsh A.Catrina Bryce |
For extensive development and commercialization of quantum well intermixing for photonic devices.
sites/default/files/06_ea.pdf |
| 2005 |
Chung-En Zah Rajaram Bhat |
For pioneering work on the AlGaInAs/InP strained quantum well lasers for uncooled applications.
sites/default/files/05_ea.pdf |
| 2004 | Marina M. Meliga |
For pioneering work on the development of semiconductor lasers and for the design and development of uncooled DFB lasers for datacom applications.
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/dec04/career.html |
| 2003 | Dennis Deppe |
For sustained contributions and innovations in the area of oxide confined and quantum dot vertical cavity surface emitting lasers.
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| 2002 | Timothy Day |
For contributions to the development and commercialization of external cavity tunable diode lasers for telecommunications, spectroscopy, metrology, and biotechnology.
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| 2000 |
Pallab Bhattacharya Sethumadhavan Chandrasekhar Leda Lunardi |
For design and development of high-performance 1.55um opto-electronic integrated photoreceivers.
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| 1999 | Frederick Kish, Jr. |
For seminal contributions to high performance light-emitting diode technology and production.
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| 1998 | David F. Welch |
For the design, development and commercialization of high power diffraction limited semiconductor lasers.
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| 1997 |
Corrado Dragone Meint K. Smit |
For the conception, design, and reduction to practice of novel optical waveguide array devices, and their application to WDM networks.
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| 1996 |
Isamu Akasaki Hiroshi Amano Shuji Nakamura |
For the technology breakthrough of making p-type gallium nitride, demonstrating very bright blue light emitting diodes, and developing a commercial LED product which is expected to have major impact in the display and other optoelectronic industries.
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| 1995 |
P. Daniel Dapkus Russell D. Dupuis |
For pioneering work on the engineering of MOCVD technology for semiconductor lasers.
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| 1993 |
Won T. Tsang Hauro Tanaka |
For the development and manufacturing of AlGaAs diode lasers for compact disc applications by MBE.
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| 1992 | Peter K. Runge |
For key contributions to the development of undersea lightwave systems.
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| 1991 | Michiharu Nakamura |
For pioneering work and commercialization of high-performance narrow-linewidth semiconductor lasers for optical communications.
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