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 operati ...

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 Michal Lipson (born 1970) is an American physicist known for her work on silicon photonics. A member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2019, Lipson was named a 2010 MacArthur Fellow for contributions to silicon photonics especially towar ...

* 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 Mark E. Thompson is a Californian chemistry academic who has worked with OLEDs. Career Mark E. Thompson graduated with honors from the University of California, Berkeley, earning his B.S. in chemistry in 1980. He earned a Ph.D. in inorganic chem ...

* 2015:

Philip St. John Russell Philip St. John Russell, FRS, (born March 25, 1953, in Belfast) is Emeritus Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen, Germany. His area of research covers "photonics and new materials", in particular the examin ...

* 2014:

James G. Fujimoto James G. Fujimoto is Elihu Thomson Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a visiting professor of ophthalmology at Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts ...

* 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 Amnon Yariv (born April 13, 1930) is an Israeli-American professor of applied physics and electrical engineering at Caltech, known for innovations in optoelectronics. Yariv obtained his B.S., M.S. and PhD. in electrical engineering from Universi ...

* 2010: Ivan P. Kaminow * 2009:

Robert L. Byer Robert Louis Byer is a physicist. He was president of the Optical Society of America in 1994 and of the American Physical Society in 2012. He currently is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University. He has con ...

* 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 com ...

* 2006: Frederick J. Leonberger * 2005:

Rod C. Alferness Rod C. Alferness was president of The Optical Society in 2008. Alferness is the dean of the college of engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Before that, Alferness was chief scientist, Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent a ...

* 2004: Tingye Li

References

External links

IEEE Photonics Award page at IEEE

List of recipients of the IEEE Photonics Award
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