Quantum Electronics Award
The Quantum Electronics Award of the IEEE (IEEE Photonics Society) is an award in laser research ( quantum electronics ) that has been awarded annually since 1978 .
Award winners
Each with an official award
- 1978 A. Gardner Fox in recognition of outstanding contributions to the theory and application of ferrite, non-reciprocal and parametric elements and laser resonator modes and laser resonators
- 1979 Elias Snitzer for the invention and demonstration of the first glass fiber laser, glass fiber optics and contributions to optical glass fibers .
- 1980 Amnon Yariv in recognition of his pioneering contributions to lasers and electro-optics
- 1981 Dietrich Marcuse for his theoretical contributions which helped to gain a fundamental understanding of the practical design of optical dielectric waveguides
- 1982 Yasuharu Suematsu for technical contributions and teaching in the field of optical communications, including semiconductor lasers, fiber optics, and integrated optics
- 1983 Ivan Kaminow for his contributions to electro-optics, waveguide elements, optical glass fibers and semiconductor lasers
- 1984 Hermann A. Haus for his contributions to optical waveguide elements and mode coupling in lasers
- 1985 Robert Hellwarth for fundamental contributions to lasers, Raman scattering and nonlinear optical processes
- 1986 Peter Smith for pioneering work on waveguide gas lasers , frequency stabilized lasers, bistable optical elements and for the understanding of the fundamental limits of nonlinear optical switching elements
- 1987 Arthur Ashkin for his fundamental experimental and theoretical work which initiated the worldwide study of radiation pressure from lasers and for his continued outstanding contributions to this field of research .
- 1988 William Bridges for contributions to the development of argon, krypton and xenon ion lasers .
- 1989 Anthony Siegman for his numerous contributions to quantum electronics, including his invention of the unstable optical resonator and contributions to the theory of mode locking in lasers
- 1990 David H. Auston for pioneering and fundamental work in the field of picosecond optoelectronics and ultrafast optical phenomena
- 1991 Herwig Kogelnik for fundamental contributions and his technically leading role in quantum electronics and optical communications technology
- 1992 Joseph E. Geusic , LeGrand Van Uitert for their invention and development of the nd: YAG laser .
- 1993 Frederick Leonberger for his pioneering contributions to the development of a number of new photonic elements and their application in important functions of signal processing
- 1994 Stephen E. Harris for pioneering contributions to quantum electronics including the invention of the FM laser , methods of generating UV and X-rays and lasers without inversion (LWI)
- 1995 Daniel S. Chemla for his fundamental contributions in the field of nonlinear optics and the understanding of electronic excitations in localized quantum systems
- 1996 Robert L. Byer for fundamental inventions and contributions to solid state lasers, optical parametric oscillators, and nonlinear optics
- 1997 Erich P. Ippen for pioneering work in ultra-fast optics, optical diagnostics and novel mode coupling processes
- 1998 Rudolf Kazarinov for his fundamental and far-reaching theoretical contributions to semiconductor lasers including the double heterostructure laser , to distributed feedback lasers and intersubband lasers
- 1999 Akira Hasegawa for his contributions to the derivation of the master equation for signal transmission in optical fibers, the discovery of optical solitons and theoretical developments on the application of solitons in all optical high-speed communication systems
- 2000 Yoshihisa Yamamoto for the invention and first demonstration of the technique of generating amplitude-squeezed light in semiconductors
- 2001 Linn Mollenauer for fundamental contributions to the generation, understanding and system application of optical solitons
- 2002 Shuji Nakamura for pioneering contributions to light-emitting diodes with blue, green and white light and blue semiconductor lasers
- 2003 Marlan Scully for contributions to the fundamentals of laser physics, which opened up new fields of research
- 2004 Gérard Mourou for pioneering contributions to ultrafast optics including optical scanning and high intensity femtosecond pulses
- 2005 Paul Corkum for pioneering contributions to the development of femtosecond and attosecond science
- 2006 Ferenc Krausz for outstanding contributions to the science of ultrafast processes and special ones for the generation of individual attosecond pulses
- 2007 Sajeev John for inventing and developing light-trapping crystals and clarifying their properties and applications
- 2008 Jeffrey H. Shapiro , Horace P. Yuen for pioneering contributions in the theory of the generation, observation and application of novel states of light
- 2009 Ataç İmamoğlu for contributions to electromagnetically induced transparency and information processing based on quantum dots, which opened up new fields of research
- 2010 Masataka Nakazawa for fundamental contributions and his leadership role in optical message processing and fiber lasers through the invention of erbium-doped glass fiber amplifiers (EDFA)
- 2011 Andrew M. Weiner for fundamental contributions to ultrafast optical signal processing, including the development of the arbitrary waveform generation of ultrashort pulses and its application
- 2012 Govind P. Agrawal for continued contributions to fiber optic communications through innovative research and as the author of a number of prestigious textbooks
- 2013 Weng Chow , for contributions to the theory of semiconductor lasers, especially for the implementation and verification of many-body effects.
- 2014 Robert W. Boyd , for contributions to nonlinear optics, including slow light at room temperature and the nonlinear optics of composite materials.
- 2015 Richard M. Osgood , for fundamental contributions to novel laser systems, laser surface photochemistry and integrated linear and non-linear Si waveguides .
- 2016 David Villeneuve , for essential contributions to the development of attosecond physics and its application in atomic and molecular spectroscopy.
- 2017 Jia-Ming Liu , for lasting pioneering contributions to ultrafast laser-matter interactions and nonlinear dynamics of lasers.
- 2018 James Roy Taylor , for major contributions to the development of ultra-short laser pulses and their application to nonlinear fiber optics, which enabled temporal and spectral versatility .
- 2019 Luigi A. Lugiato , for outstanding contributions to quantum electronics, in particular the Lugiato-Lefever equation and its effect on microresonator frequency combs
- 2020 Herbert Winful , for pioneering the field of nonlinear optical periodic structures and for foundational contributions to nonlinear dynamics of semiconductor laser arrays