IEEE Photonics Award. 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, including work relating to: light-generation, transmission, deflection, amplification and detection and the optical/electro-optical componentry and instrumentation used to accomplish these functions. Also included are storage technologies utilizing photonics to read or write data and optical display technologies. It also extends from energy generation/propagation, communications, information processing, storage and display, biomedical and medical uses of light and measurement applications.

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 
 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.

References

External links 
 IEEE Photonics Award page at IEEE
 List of recipients of the IEEE Photonics Award

Photonics Award