The IEEE Photonics Award is a
Technical Field Award established by the
IEEE
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operat ...
Board of Directors in 2002.
This award is presented for outstanding achievements in
photonics
Photonics is a branch of optics that involves the application of generation, detection, and manipulation of light in form of photons through emission, transmission, modulation, signal processing, switching, amplification, and sensing. Though ...
, including work relating to: light-generation, transmission, deflection, amplification and detection and the optical/electro-optical componentry and instrumentation used to accomplish these functions. Also included are storage technologies utilizing photonics to read or write data and optical display technologies. It also extends from energy generation/propagation, communications, information processing, storage and display, biomedical and medical uses of light and measurement applications.
This award may be presented to an individual or a team of up to three people. Recipients of this award receive a bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium.
Recipients
* 2021: Jack Jewell
* 2020: Christopher Richard Doerr
* 2019:
Michal Lipson
* 2018:
Ursula Keller
Ursula Keller (born 21 June 1959) is a Swiss physicist. She has been a physics professor at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland since 2003 with a speciality in ultra-fast laser technology, an inventor and the winner of the 2018 European Inventor Award by ...
* 2017:
John E. Bowers
* 2016:
Mark E. Thompson
* 2015:
Philip St. John Russell
* 2014:
James G. Fujimoto
* 2013: Peter F. Moulton
* 2012:
Eli Yablonovitch
Eli Yablonovitch (born 15 December 1946) is an American physicist and engineer who, along with Sajeev John founded the field of photonic crystals in 1987.M.Kapoor (2013Electromagnetic Band Gap Structures page 58 He and his team were the first t ...
* 2011:
Amnon Yariv
* 2010: Ivan P. Kaminow
* 2009:
Robert L. Byer
* 2008: Joe C. Campbell
* 2007:
David N. Payne
Sir David Neil Payne CBE FRS FREng (born 13 August 1944) is a British professor of photonics who is director of the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton. He has made several contributions in areas of optical fibre ...
* 2006: Frederick J. Leonberger
* 2005:
Rod C. Alferness
* 2004:
Tingye Li
Tingye Li (; July 7, 1931 – December 27, 2012) was a Chinese-American scientist in the fields of microwaves, lasers and optical communications. His innovative work at AT&T pioneered the research and application of lightwave communication, and ...
References
External links
IEEE Photonics Award page at IEEEList of recipients of the IEEE Photonics Award
Photonics Award
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