IEEE Photonics Award

2024: Kim Roberts

For leadership in the introduction and development of digital coherent signal processing for optical fiber transmission systems.

2023: Roel Baets

For pioneering research in integrated photonics, including silicon, silicon-nitride, III-V devices, and their heterogeneous integration.

2022: Rodney S. Tucker

For contributions to photonic device modelling and bridging the gap between device and system-level performance, including energy consumption.

2021: Jack Jewell

For seminal and sustained contributions to the development and commercialization of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSEL).

2020: Christopher Richard Doerr

For sustained pioneering research, development, and commercialization of photonic integrated circuits and devices for telecommunications.

2019: Michal Lipson

For pioneering contributions to silicon photonics.

2018: Ursula Keller

For seminal contributions to ultrafast laser technology enabling important industrial applications and novel scientific breakthroughs.

2017: John E. Bowers

For pioneering research in silicon photonics, including hybrid silicon lasers, photonic integrated circuits, and ultra-lowloss waveguides.

2016: Mark E. Thompson

For scientific and technical leadership in the conception, demonstration, and development of phosphorescent materials in organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays.

2015: Philip St. John Russell

For pioneering contributions to the conception and realization of photonic crystal fibers.

2014: James G. Fujimoto

For pioneering the development and commercialization of optical coherence tomography for medical diagnostics.

2013: Peter F. Moulton

For the discovery of the Ti:Sapphire laser and the development of many novel solidstate laser systems and applications.

2012: Eli Yablonovitch

For pioneering contributions to photonic crystals, the photonic bandgap and photonic bandgap engineering.

2011: Amnon Yariv

For fundamental contributions to photonics science, engineering and education that have broadly impacted quantum electronics and lightwave communications.

2010: Ivan P. Kaminow

For seminal contributions to electro-optic modulation, integrated optics, and semiconductor lasers, and leadership in optical telecommunications.

2009: Robert L. Byer

For seminal contributions to nonlinear optics and solid-state lasers for commercial applications from precision measurement to manufacturing.

2008: Joe C. Campbell

For seminal and sustained contributions to the development of high-speed, low-noise long wavelength avalanche photodiodes.

2007: David N. Payne

For pioneering contributions to the development and commercialization of optical fiber-based technologies for communications, sensors, and high power applications.

2006: Frederick J. Leonberger

For technical leadership, commercialization and practical deployment of photonic component technologies for optical communications.

2005: Rod C. Alferness

For seminal contributions to enabling photonics technologies and for visionary leadership in their application to networks and systems.

2004: Tingye Li

For leadership, vision and pioneering contributions in the fields of optical fiber communications and laser science.