Engineering Achievement Award Winners

Year	Award Winner	Citation
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	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	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	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	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.