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The IEEE Photonics Society Engineering Achievement Award is given to recognize an exceptional engineering contribution which has had a significant impact on the development of laser or electro-optic technology or the commercial application of technology within the past 10 years.
Presented: An individual or to a group for a single contribution of significant work in the field
Nomination Period: February to April
Scope: To recognize an exceptional engineering contribution which has had significant recent impact on the development of laser or electro-optic technology or the commercial application of technology.
Prize: A Bronze Medallion, A Certificate and Honorarium
Basis for Judging: In the evaluation process, the following criteria are considered: Evidence of the significant impact of the cited contribution within the past 10 years.
We are proud to recognize and celebrate honorees of the IEEE Photonics Society Engineering Achievement Award.
For pioneering contributions to silicon photonic waveguide devices, including the invention of metamaterial waveguides and advancing sub-wavelength integrated photonics technology.
Pavel Cheben is a Principal Research Officer at the National Research Council (NRC) of Canada. He is also an Honorary Professor at the University of Malaga and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Ottawa, the University of Toronto, Carleton University, McMaster University, and the University of Zilina. Dr. Cheben is best known for his work in subwavelength silicon photonics, pioneering a new field of research that merges metamaterial technology with integrated photonics. He has co-authored more than 800 publications, 42 patent applications, and over 300 invited presentations. Dr. Cheben is an International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, IEEE, SPIE, Optica, American Physical Society, European Optical Society, Institute of Physics, Engineering Institute of Canada, and Canadian Academy of Engineering. He is also the recipient of the Order of the Slovak Republic, the International Prize of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, the Government of Canada’s Public Service Excellence Award, the NRC Research Excellence Award, and the NRC Industrial Achievement Award. Dr. Cheben is the most published scientist at NRC Canada for the past decade.
| Year | Award Winner | Citation |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Alwyn J. Seeds | For pioneering developments in microwave photonic devices and systems, leading to successful commercialization of wireless-over-fiber for 5G+ cellular communication. |
| 2022 | Ulrich L. Rohde | For outstanding engineering achievement in the field of optoelectronic signal generation and optical measurement equipment for next-generation intelligent optical networks. |
| 2021 | José Capmany | For pioneering and sustained contributions to integrated microwave and programmable photonics including the invention of Field Programmable Photonic Gate Arrays. |
| 2020 | George C. Papen | For contributions to optical systems, especially optical switching in data center networks. |
| 2019 | Holger Schmidt Aaron Hawkins | For the invention and development of optofluidics waveguides and their applications, in particular, commercialization for biomedical diagnostics. |
| 2018 | Dalma Novak | For the creation and development of breakthrough technologies for the microwave photonics field, in particular for fiber-radio communication systems. |
| 2017 | David V. Plant | For pioneering contributions to optical communications technologies spanning multiple length scales including DSP algorithms for direct detection and coherent systems. |
| 2016 | Keren Bergman | For pioneering contributions to optical interconnection networks and photonic-enabled architectures that advance communicaitons and computing systems. |
| 2015 | Chennupati Jagadish | For pioneering and sustained contributions to compound semiconductor quantum well, quantum dot and nanowire optoelectronic devices and their integration. |
| 2014 | Yong-Hee Lee | For pioneering research on the photonic crystal nanolaser and the proton-implant vertical cavity surface emitting laser. |
| 2013 | Polina Bayvel | For seminal advances in optical networks, including efficient wavelength routing architectures and electronic DSP algorithms to mitigate degrading effects. |
| 2012 | Gregory Belenky Jerry Meyer Igor Vurgaftman | For exceptional contributions to the technology of mid-wave GaSb-based infrared lasers. |
| 2011 | Alan Willner | For technical advances in optical fiber communications technologies that have enabled significant improvements in the performance and reliability of wavelength-division-multiplexed systems. |
| 2010 | Wood-Hi Cheng | For design, development and commercialization compact solid-state laser modules. |
| 2009 | Jose A. R. Salcedo | In recognition of outstanding technical and leadership contributions to pulsed fiber lasers, in particular all-fiber ring laser architectures, and of his pioneering efforts aimed at developing, promoting and commercializing this technology in Portugal – and later in international markets. |
| 2008 | Kent D. Choquette | For development of the monolithic selectively oxidized vertical cavity surface emitting laser. |
| 2007 | Andreas Umbach Gunter Unterborsch Dirk Trommer | For the research, development and fabrication of advanced ultra-high speed photodetectors. |
| 2006 | John H. Marsh A.Catrina Bryce | For extensive development and commercialization of quantum well intermixing for photonic devices. |
| 2005 | Chung-En Zah Rajaram Bhat | For pioneering work on the AlGaInAs/InP strained quantum well lasers for uncooled applications. |
| 2004 | Marina M. Meliga | For pioneering work on the development of semiconductor lasers and for the design and development of uncooled DFB lasers for datacom applications. |
| 2003 | Dennis Deppe | For sustained contributions and innovations in the area of oxide confined and quantum dot vertical cavity surface emitting lasers. |
| 2002 | Timothy Day | For contributions to the development and commercialization of external cavity tunable diode lasers for telecommunications, spectroscopy, metrology, and biotechnology. |
| 2000 | Pallab Bhattacharya Sethumadhavan Chandrasekhar Leda Lunardi | For design and development of high-performance 1.55um opto-electronic integrated photoreceivers. |
| 1999 | Frederick Kish, Jr. | For seminal contributions to high performance light-emitting diode technology and production. |
| 1998 | David F. Welch | For the design, development and commercialization of high power diffraction limited semiconductor lasers. |
| 1997 | Corrado Dragone Meint K. Smit | For the conception, design, and reduction to practice of novel optical waveguide array devices, and their application to WDM networks. |
| 1996 | Isamu Akasaki Hiroshi Amano Shuji Nakamura | For the technology breakthrough of making p-type gallium nitride, demonstrating very bright blue light emitting diodes, and developing a commercial LED product which is expected to have major impact in the display and other optoelectronic industries. |
| 1995 | P. Daniel Dapkus Russell D. Dupuis | For pioneering work on the engineering of MOCVD technology for semiconductor lasers. |
| 1994 | Donald R. Scifres | For the development and commercialization of high power semiconductor lasers and their applications. |
| 1993 | Won T. Tsang Hauro Tanaka | For the development and manufacturing of AlGaAs diode lasers for compact disc applications by MBE. |
| 1992 | Peter K. Runge | For key contributions to the development of undersea lightwave systems. |
| 1991 | Michiharu Nakamura | For pioneering work and commercialization of high-performance narrow-linewidth semiconductor lasers for optical communications. |
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