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 AWARDS

Lehman, Cromer, and Li Receive 2008 FLC Technology Transfer Award
    
  Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer
The Federal Laboratory Consortium Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer recognizes science and technology employees in FLC laboratories who have accomplished outstanding work in the process of transferring federally developed technology. A panel of experts from industry, state and local government, academia, and the federal laboratory system judge the nominations.
Winner's Name
                                Don Dooley (Spectrum Detector), John Lehman, Xiaoyu Li, and Chris Cromer

Awarded
                                May 8, 2008

Awarding Organization
      
                          Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology TransferChris Cromer, John Lehman, and Xiaoyu Li, along with Don Dooley (Spectrum Detector), were recognized for their pioneering work in commercializing optical trap detectors for laser power measurements. These optical trap detectors represent the state-of-the-art in calibration transfer standards for laser power measurements and are critical to obtaining traceability through NIST calibration services. The novel trap design allows the measurement of a variety of optical beam geometries, thus supporting diverse optical sources such as laser beams, optical fibers, light emitting diodes (LEDs), and lamps, providing improved accuracy while increasing the tolerance to optical beam variations. The device has successfully decreased metrological uncertainty by National Metrology Institutes worldwide.Recently, the NIST-designed detector was successfully commercialized by Spectrum Detector, Inc., working in collaboration with the EEEL researchers. The commercial availability of a metrology-grade trap-detector transfer will allow companies that manufacture and use laser power and energy meters to obtain stable, high-accuracy transfer standards, at a reasonable price. Using these advanced detectors for NIST calibrations to obtain optical power traceability will enable a widespread improvement in laser power calibrations by decreasing the uncertainty associated with the detector.
  Electronics and Optoelectronics
      
            Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer
The Federal Laboratory Consortium Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer recognizes science and technology employees in FLC laboratories who have accomplished outstanding work in the process of transferring federally developed technology. A panel of experts from industry, state and local government, academia, and the federal laboratory system judge the nominations.
Winner's Name
                                Don Dooley (Spectrum Detector), John Lehman, Xiaoyu Li, and Chris Cromer

Awarded
                                May 8, 2008

Awarding Organization
      
                          Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer
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      NIST HeadquartersLaboratory ProgramsPhysical Measurement LaboratoryApplied Physics Division

    
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