Engineering Achievement Award Winners
| Year | Award Winner | Citation |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | José Capmany | For pioneering and sustained contributions to integrated microwave and programmable photonics including the invention of Field Programmable Photonic Gate Arrays. |
| 2020 | George C. Papen | For contributions to optical systems, especially optical switching in data center networks. |
| 2019 |
Holger Schmidt
Aaron Hawkins
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For the invention and development of optofluidics waveguides and their applications, in particular, commercialization for biomedical diagnostics. |
| 2018 | Dalma Novak | For the creation and development of breakthrough technologies for the microwave photonics field, in particular for fiber-radio communication systems. |
| 2017 | David V. Plant | For pioneering contributions to optical communications technologies spanning multiple length scales including DSP algorithms for direct detection and coherent systems. |
| 2016 | Keren Bergman | For pioneering contributions to optical interconnection networks and photonic-enabled architectures that advance communicaitons and computing systems. |
| 2015 | Chennupati Jagadish | For pioneering and sustained contributions to compound semiconductor quantum well, quantum dot and nanowire optoelectronic devices and their integration. |
| 2014 | Yong-Hee Lee
|
For pioneering research on the photonic crystal nanolaser and the proton-implant vertical cavity surface emitting laser. |
| 2013 | Polina Bayvel | For seminal advances in optical networks, including efficient wavelength routing architectures and electronic DSP algorithms to mitigate degrading effects. |
| 2012 |
Gregory Belenky
Jerry Meyer
Igor Vurgaftman
|
For exceptional contributions to the technology of mid-wave GaSb-based infrared lasers. |
| 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. |
| 2010 | Wood-Hi Cheng | For design, development and commercialization compact solid-state laser modules. |
| 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. |
| 2008 | Kent D. Choquette | For development of the monolithic selectively oxidized vertical cavity surface emitting laser. |
| 2007 |
Andreas Umbach
Gunter Unterborsch
Dirk Trommer
|
For the research, development and fabrication of advanced ultra-high speed photodetectors. |
| 2006 |
John H. Marsh
A.Catrina Bryce
|
For extensive development and commercialization of quantum well intermixing for photonic devices. |
| 2005 |
Chung-En Zah
Rajaram Bhat
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For pioneering work on the AlGaInAs/InP strained quantum well lasers for uncooled applications. |
| 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. |
| 2003 | Dennis Deppe | For sustained contributions and innovations in the area of oxide confined and quantum dot vertical cavity surface emitting lasers. |
| 2002 | Timothy Day | For contributions to the development and commercialization of external cavity tunable diode lasers for telecommunications, spectroscopy, metrology, and biotechnology. |
| 2000 |
Pallab Bhattacharya
Sethumadhavan Chandrasekhar
Leda Lunardi
|
For design and development of high-performance 1.55um opto-electronic integrated photoreceivers. |
| 1999 | Frederick Kish, Jr. | For seminal contributions to high performance light-emitting diode technology and production. |
| 1998 | David F. Welch | For the design, development and commercialization of high power diffraction limited semiconductor lasers. |
| 1997 |
Corrado Dragone
Meint K. Smit
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For the conception, design, and reduction to practice of novel optical waveguide array devices, and their application to WDM networks. |
| 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. |
| 1995 |
P. Daniel Dapkus
Russell D. Dupuis
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For pioneering work on the engineering of MOCVD technology for semiconductor lasers. |
| 1994 | Donald R. Scifres | For the development and commercialization of high power semiconductor lasers and their applications. |
| 1993 |
Won T. Tsang
Hauro Tanaka
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For the development and manufacturing of AlGaAs diode lasers for compact disc applications by MBE. |
| 1992 | Peter K. Runge | For key contributions to the development of undersea lightwave systems. |
| 1991 | Michiharu Nakamura | For pioneering work and commercialization of high-performance narrow-linewidth semiconductor lasers for optical communications. |