| 2021 |
Xi (Vivian) Chen |
For outstanding contributions to high-speed and high-capacity fiber-optic communications. |
| 2020 |
Mikhail Kats |
For contributions in the fields of nanophotonics and optical materials, especially for metasurfaces, optics with phase-transition materials, and thermal-emission engineering. |
| 2019 |
Junjie Yao |
For pioneering novel photo-acoustic imaging that allows probing living tissue functions at unprecedented accuracy, sensitivity, and speed. |
| 2018 |
Yu Shrike Zhang |
For pioneering contributions in applying biophotonics to characterization of engineered tissue constructs. |
| 2017 |
Hannah Joyce |
For significant contributions to nanowire optoelectronics and terhertz spectroscopy. |
| 2016 |
Igor Aharonovich |
For contribution to the development of single photon emitters in wide bandgap materials. |
| 2015 |
Jeremy N. Munday |
For pioneering contributions to plasmonic and photonic light-trapping in solar cells. |
| 2014 |
Ertugrul Cubukcu |
For contributions to photonics beyond the diffraction limit with nanoantenna-based devices and sensors. |
| 2013 |
Alexandra Boltasseva |
For seminal contributions to the development of metal-dielectric waveguides for integrated optics and novel approaches for realization of nanoplasmonic devices. |
| 2012 |
William Green |
For contributions in CMOS integrable, highly scaled, Silicon Nano-Photonics, and pioneering Silicon Photonics for mid-infrared applications and non-linear-optics. |
| 2011 |
Hatice Altug |
For contributions on nanoplasmonics and integrated nanofluidics for biological sensing and spectroscopy. |
| 2010 |
Sander Lars Jansen |
For pioneering contributions in optical OFDM for fiber-optic transmission systems. |
| 2009 |
Aydogan Ozcan |
For his pioneering contributions to non-destructive non-linear material characterization techniques, near-field and on-chip imaging and diagnostic systems. |
| 2008 |
Jose Azana |
For pioneer contributions on innovative ultra-fast optical pulse processing techniques, particularly temporal self-imaging (Talbot) effects, using all-fiber grating technologies. |
| 2007 |
Randy Bartels |
For pioneering contributions to ultrafast molecular photonics and photonic reagent control of quantum systems on an unprecedented time-scale. |
