IEEE Photonics Award
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The IEEE Photonics Award is a Technical Field Award established by the IEEE Board of Directors in 2002. This award is presented for outstanding achievements in photonics
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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.
Photonics
The science of photonics includes the generation, emission, transmission, modulation, signal processing, switching, amplification, detection and sensing of light. The term photonics thereby emphasizes that photons are neither particles nor waves — they are different in that they have both particle...
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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
- 2004: Tingye LiTingye LiDr. Tingye Li is a world-renowned scientist in the fields of microwaves, lasers and optical communications. His innovational work at AT&T, which pioneered the research and application of lightwave communication, has had a far-reaching impact on information technology for over four...
- 2005: Rod C. AlfernessRod C. AlfernessRod C. Alferness was president of the Optical Society of America 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 and the Bell Laboratories Research Senior Vice...
- 2006: Frederick J. Leonberger
- 2007: David N. Payne
- 2008: Joe C. Campbell
- 2009: Robert L. ByerRobert L. ByerRobert L. Byer was president of the Optical Society of America in 1994.He currently is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University. He has conducted research and taught classes in lasers and nonlinear optics at Stanford University since 1969...
- 2010: Ivan P. Kaminow
- 2011: Amnon YarivAmnon YarivAmnon Yariv is an Israeli-American professor of applied physics and electrical engineering at Caltech, known for innovations in optoelectronics....
- 2012: Eli YablonovitchEli YablonovitchEli Yablonovitch along with Sajeev John, was one of the two applied physicists who invented the field of photonic crystals in 1987. He and his team were the first to create a 3-dimension structure that exhibited a full photonic bandgap, it is called Yablonovite...