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Presented to: An individual or team, up to three in number
Scope: To recognize outstanding achievements in Opto-Electronic device technology.
Prize: A Bronze Medallion, A Certificate and Honorarium
Honorarium Basis for judging: In the evaluation process, the following criteria are considered: The device technology cited is to have had a significant impact on their applications in major practical systems. The intent is to recognize key contributors to the field for developments of critical components, which lead to the development of systems enabling major new services or capabilities. These achievements should have been accomplished in a prior time frame sufficient to permit evaluation of their lasting impact. The work cited could have appeared in the form of publications, patents, products, or simply general recognition by the professional community that the individual cited is the agreed upon originator of the advance upon which the award decision is based.
We are proud to recognize and celebrate honorees of the IEEE Photonics Society William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award.
For seminal contributions to the field of photonic metamaterials and their applications.
Andrea Alu is a Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York (CUNY), the Einstein Professor of Physics at the CUNY Graduate Center, the Founding Director of the Photonics Initiative at the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center, and a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the City College of New York. He received his Laurea (2001), MS (2003) and PhD (2007) from the University of Roma Tre, and was the Temple Foundation Endowed Professor at the University of Texas at Austin until 2018. In 2015 he was the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) Visiting Professor at the AMOLF Institute in the Netherlands. His research interests span over applied electromagnetics, nanooptics, polaritonics and acoustics. Alù is credited with a number of discoveries, including the first experimental demonstration of a three-dimensional electromagnetic cloak, of nonreciprocal phenomena in magnet-free metamaterials, of electromagnetic time-reflections and of extreme nonlinearities in quantum-engineered metasurfaces. Dr. Alù is the President of the Metamorphose Virtual Institute for Artificial Electromagnetic Materials and Metamaterials, the Director of the Simons Collaboration on Extreme Wave Phenomena Driven by Symmetries and the Chair of the IEEE Joint New York Chapter. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Optical Materials Express, a Simons Investigator in Physics since 2016, a Full Member of URSI, a Life Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the Materials Research Society (MRS), Optica, the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) and the American Physical Society (APS). Since 2017, he has been a Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate Web of Science). He has received several awards and recognitions for his research activities, including the Max Born Award (2024), the SPIE Mozi Award (2024), the IEEE AP-S Distinguished Achievement Award (2023), the Brillouin Medal (2021), the Blavatnik National Award in Physical Sciences and Engineering (2021), the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award (2020), the DoD Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship (2019), the ICO Prize in Optics (2016), the Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Engineering (2016), the NSF Alan T. Waterman Award (2015), the Franco Strazzabosco Award for Young Engineers (2013), the URSI Issac Koga Gold Medal (2011).
| Year | Award Winner | Citation |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Shinji Matsuo | For contributions to ultra-high speed, low power consumption membrane lasers and their heterogeneous integration. |
| 2022 | John Ballato | For pioneering contributions to the science, engineering, and application of optoelectronic fibers. |
| 2021 | Paras N. Prasad | For pioneering contributions in multiphoton processes in molecular materials and developing technologies that advance biophotonics for multiphoton imaging and therapy. |
| 2020 | Peter J. Delfyett, Jr. | For pioneering contributions to semiconductor diode based ultrafast laser science and technology. |
| 2019 | Bahram Javidi | For transformative innovations on automated disease identification using field portable optical-imaging based bio-photonics sensors. |
| 2018 | Roland Ryf | For contributions to the understanding and development of Space-Division Multiplexing in optical fibers. |
| 2017 | Nader Engheta | For development of, and pioneering contributions to extreme-parameter metamaterials in optics and photonics. |
| 2016 | Ming C. Wu | For pioneering contributions in micro-opto-electro-mechanical systems (MOEMS). |
| 2015 | Vladimir Shalaev | For seminal contributions both to the theoretical framework and to the ground-breaking experimental realization of optical metamaterials. |
| 2014 | Gadi Eisenstein | For fundamental contributions to the dynamical properties of semiconductor lasers and amplifiers. |
| 2013 | Curtis R. Menyuk | For seminal advances in the fundamental understanding and mitigation of polarization effects in high-performance optical fiber communication systems. |
| 2012 | Qing Hu | For pioneering contribution in the development of high-temperature, high-power, and broadly tunable THz QCLs, and applications in imaging and sensing. |
| 2011 | Xi-Cheng Zhang | For exceptional contribution of terahertz (THz) air photonics, especially free-space coherent detection of ultra-broadband THz waves. |
| 2010 | Dieter Bimberg | For demonstration of quantum dot lasers and pioneering contributions to semiconductor nanophotonics. |
| 2009 | Christopher Doerr | For pioneering research on highly functional integrated optical circuits based on arrayed waveguide grating routers and their implementation in advanced optical networks. |
| 2008 | Fumio Koyama | For contributions to vertical cavity surface emitting semiconductor lasers and dynamic single-mode semiconductor laser. |
| 2007 | Shun-Lien Chuang | For contributions to the development of the fundamental theories of strained quantum-well lasers and the physics of optoelectronics devices. |
| 2006 |
William H. Steier
Larry R. Dalton
Harold Fetterman |
For seminal contributions to the advancement of polymer photonic devices and materials. |
| 2005 | Emmanuel Desurvire | For pioneering contributions to the physical and theoretical understanding of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers and their early device development. |
| 2004 | Yasuhiko Arakawa | For pioneering contributions to quantum confinement effects in semiconductor lasers and the development of quantum dot lasers. |
| 2003 | Connie Chang-Hasnain | For pioneering contributions to vertical cavity surface emitting lasers and VCSEL arrays for wavelength-division-multiplexing applications. |
| 2002 | James Fujimoto | For pioneering contributions to optical coherence tomography. |
| 2001 |
Joe C. Campbell
Stephen R. Forrest |
For contributions to the development of high-speed, low-noise long-wavelength avalanche and p-i-n photodiodes. |
| 2000 | James J. Coleman | For pioneering research in high reliability strained layer semiconductor lasers. |
| 1999 |
Jonathan Heritage
Andrew Weiner |
For pioneering contributions to femtosecond optical pulse shaping technology and its applications. |
| 1998 |
Federico Capasso
Jerome Faist |
For the design, demonstration, and pioneering development of the quantum cascade laser which is revolutionizing the field of mid-infrared semiconductor lasers. |
| 1997 | Peter F. Moulton | For the invention of the titanium sapphire tunable infrared laser which opened a new era of solid state ultrafast lasers. |
| 1996 |
John E. Bowers
Kam Y. Lau |
For significant contributions to the understanding and design of high speed semiconductor lasers. |
| 1995 |
Stuart Searles
Charles Brau
George Hart
James Ewing |
For the demonstration and development of excimer lasers. |
| 1994 |
Martin A. Pollack
Robert E. Nahory |
For pioneering work in III-V compound semiconductor materials and optoelectronic integrated circuits. |
| 1993 | Eli Yablonovitch | For contributions to optoelectronics including the physics of strained layer lasers and photonic applications of low dimensional structures. |
| 1992 | Kenichi Iga | For pioneering research in vertical-cavity surface-emitting injection lasers. |
| 1991 |
Thomas L. Koch
Uziel Koren |
For pioneering and innovative contributions to photonic integrated circuits. |
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