William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award Winners

Year	Award Winner	Citation
2018	Roland Ryf	For contributions to the understanding and development of Space-Division Multiplexing in optical fibers.
2017	Nader Engheta	For development of, and pioneering contributions to extreme-parameter metamaterials in optics and photonics.
2016	Ming C. Wu	For pioneering contributions in micro-opto-electro-mechanical systems (MOEMS).
2015	Vladimir Shalaev	For seminal contributions both to the theoretical framework and to the ground-breaking experimental realization of optical metamaterials.
2014	Gadi Eisenstein	For fundamental contributions to the dynamical properties of semiconductor lasers and amplifiers.
2013	Curtis R. Menyuk	For seminal advances in the fundamental understanding and mitigation of polarization effects in high-performance optical fiber communication systems.
2012	Qing Hu	For pioneering contribution in the development of high-temperature, high-power, and broadly tunable THz QCLs, and applications in imaging and sensing.
2011	Xi-Cheng Zhang	For exceptional contribution of terahertz (THz) air photonics, especially free-space coherent detection of ultra-broadband THz waves.
2010	Dieter Bimberg	For demonstration of quantum dot lasers and pioneering contributions to semiconductor nanophotonics.
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.
2008	Fumio Koyama	For contributions to vertical cavity surface emitting semiconductor lasers and dynamic single-mode semiconductor laser.
2007	Shun-Lien Chuang	For contributions to the development of the fundamental theories of strained quantum-well lasers and the physics of optoelectronics devices.
2006	William H. Steier Larry R. Dalton Harold Fetterman	For seminal contributions to the advancement of polymer photonic devices and materials.
2005	Emmanuel Desurvire	For pioneering contributions to the physical and theoretical understanding of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers and their early device development.
2004	Yasuhiko Arakawa	For pioneering contributions to quantum confinement effects in semiconductor lasers and the development of quantum dot lasers.
2003	Connie Chang-Hasnain	For pioneering contributions to vertical cavity surface emitting lasers and VCSEL arrays for wavelength-division-multiplexing applications.
2002	James Fujimoto	For pioneering contributions to optical coherence tomography.
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.
2000	James J. Coleman	For pioneering research in high reliability strained layer semiconductor lasers.
1999	Jonathan Heritage Andrew Weiner	For pioneering contributions to femtosecond optical pulse shaping technology and its applications.
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.
1997	Peter F. Moulton	For the invention of the titanium sapphire tunable infrared laser which opened a new era of solid state ultrafast lasers.
1996	John E. Bowers Kam Y. Lau	For significant contributions to the understanding and design of high speed semiconductor lasers.
1995	Stuart Searles Charles Brau George Hart James Ewing	For the demonstration and development of excimer lasers.
1994	Martin A. Pollack Robert E. Nahory	For pioneering work in III-V compound semiconductor materials and optoelectronic integrated circuits.
1993	Eli Yablonovitch	For contributions to optoelectronics including the physics of strained layer lasers and photonic applications of low dimensional structures.
1992	Kenichi Iga	For pioneering research in vertical-cavity surface-emitting injection lasers.
1991	Thomas L. Koch Uziel Koren	For pioneering and innovative contributions to photonic integrated circuits.