Award Winners
Year |
Award Winner | Description |
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| 2011 | Xi-Cheng Zhang |
For exceptional contribution of terahertz (THz) air photonics, especially free-space coherent detection of ultra-broadband THz waves.
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/aug11/Career-SciRecipient.html |
| 2010 | Dieter Bimberg |
For demonstration of quantum dot lasers and pioneering contributions to semiconductor nanophotonics.
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/aug10/ScientificAward.html |
| 2009 | Christopher Doerr |
For pioneering research on highly functional integrated optical circuits based on arrayed waveguide grating routers and their implementation in advanced optical networks.
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/aug09/Doerr.html |
| 2008 | Fumio Koyama |
For contributions to vertical cavity surface emitting semiconductor lasers and dynamic single-mode semiconductor lasers
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/aug08/fumio.html |
| 2007 | Shun-Lien Chuang |
For contributions to the development of the fundamental theories of strained quantum-well lasers and the physics of optoelectronics devices.
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/dec07/profiles.html |
| 2006 |
William H. Steier Larry R. Dalton Harold Fetterman |
For seminal contributions to the advancement of polymer photonic devices and materials.
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/dec06/profiles_recipients.html |
| 2005 | Emmanuel Desurvire |
For pioneering contributions to the physical and theoretical understanding of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers and their early device development.
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/dec05/profiles.html |
| 2004 | Yasuhiko Arakawa |
For pioneering contributions to quantum confinement effects in semiconductor lasers and the development of quantum dot lasers.
http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/dec04/career.html |
| 2003 | Connie Chang-Hasnain |
For pioneering contributions to vertical cavity surface emitting lasers and VCSEL arrays for wavelength-division-multiplexing applications.
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| 2002 | James Fujimoto |
For pioneering contributions to optical coherence tomography.
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| 2001 |
Joe C. Campbell Stephen R. Forrest |
For contributions to the development of high-speed, low-noise long-wavelength avalanche and p-i-n photodiodes.
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| 2000 | James J. Coleman |
For pioneering research in high reliability strained layer semiconductor lasers.
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| 1999 |
Jonathan Heritage Andrew Weiner |
For pioneering contributions to femtosecond optical pulse shaping technology and its applications.
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| 1998 |
Federico Capasso Jerome Faist |
For the design, demonstration, and pioneering development of the quantum cascade laser which is revolutionizing the field of mid-infrared semiconductor lasers.
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| 1997 | Peter F. Moulton |
For the invention of the titanium sapphire tunable infrared laser which opened a new era of solid state ultrafast lasers.
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| 1996 |
John E. Bowers Kam Y. Lau |
For significant contributions to the understanding and design of high speed semiconductor lasers.
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| 1995 |
Stuart Searles Charles Brau George Hart James Ewing |
For the demonstration and development of excimer lasers.
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| 1994 |
Martin A. Pollack Robert E. Nahory |
For pioneering work in III-V compound semiconductor materials and optoelectronic integrated circuits.
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| 1993 | Eli Yablonovitch |
For contributions to optoelectronics including the physics of strained layer lasers and photonic applications of low dimensional structures.
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| 1992 | Kenichi Iga |
For pioneering research in vertical-cavity surface-emitting injection lasers.
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| 1991 |
Thomas L. Koch Uziel Koren |
For pioneering and innovative contributions to photonic integrated circuits.
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