Willis E. Lamb Prize
The Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics is presented annually by the Conference for Physics of Quantum Electronics (PQE). It is named after Willis E. Lamb .
Award winners
Each with an official award.
- 1998: Ali Javan for the helium-neon laser, Olga Kocharovskaya and Paul Mandel for contributions to the study of atomic coherence effects in lasers and measles
- 1999: Melvin Lax for fundamental contributions to the quantum theory of the laser, Lorenzo Narducci for contributions to quantum fluctuations and quantum noise (especially the application of the quantum regression theorem to problems in modern optics), Herbert Walther for single atom burls
- 2000: Federico Capasso and Alfred Y. Cho for the quantum electronics of quantum wells and the quantum cascade laser
- 2001: James P. Gordon and Hermann A. Haus in particular for the propagation of solitons in glass fibers and the Gordon-Haus effect.
- 2002: Jonathan Dowling , Luigi Lugiato and Yanhua Shih especially for spatial coherence effects in quantum entangled multiphoton states
- 2003: Leon Cohen for quasi-probability distributions in quantum mechanics and the associated applied field of time-frequency analysis, Michael Feld for the first experimental demonstration of microlasers and super radians and applications of optics in biophysics, Herschel Rabitz for his approach to learning algorithms for the control of quantum phenomena with wide-ranging applications.
- 2004: Karl Kompa for laser chemistry and chemical lasers (especially the oxygen-iodine laser), Stuart Rice for pioneering work on dynamic quantum statistics and especially the laser control of chemical reactions, Lu Sham in particular for his contribution to the density functional theory according to Kohn and Sham.
- 2005: Gérard Mourou especially for lasers with high power and short pulses, Szymon Suckewer for X-ray lasers, Sune Svanberg for the use of lasers in medical diagnostics and therapy
- 2006: Raymond Chiao for contributions to the understanding of time in quantum mechanics in tunnel experiments (question of the speed of light ) and quantum erasers , Roy Glauber for understanding the fundamentals of quantum mechanical coherence, Manfred Kleber for understanding the tunnel time and quantum interference in external fields
- 2007: Hans Frauenfelder for pioneering work in radiation biophysics, Moshe Shapiro for pioneering work in laser chemistry and quantum control , Sunney Xie for CARS microscopy ( nonlinear Raman spectroscopy )
- 2008: Gershon Kurizki for his contributions on the decay of quantum mechanical states at short times, decoherence and its control, Mark Raizen for experimental investigations of dynamic localization, non-exponential decay of states and Zeno and anti-Zeno effects, Wolfgang Schleich for his work on Interference in phase space, dynamic localization and quantum state engineering.
- 2009: Robert W. Boyd for pioneering work on the nonlinear interaction of laser light with matter, quantum imaging and slow light, Robert L. Byer for pioneering work on nonlinear optics including parametric amplification, Norbert Kroó for pioneering work on surface plasmons and other elementary excitations.
- 2010: John Pendry for pioneering work on transformation optics , Vladimir M. Shalaev for pioneering work on metamaterials and plasmon nanostructures, Aleksei M. Zheltikov for pioneering work on ultra-fast nonlinear optics in specially developed photonic crystalline fibers.
- 2011: Ron Folman for pioneering contributions to atomic chips and material science in atomic optics, Randall G. Hulet for pioneering work on ultracold Bose and Fermi systems and their application to understanding fundamental processes, Mark A. Kasevich for pioneering work on atomic optics and atomic interferometry and their application in of quantum metrology.
- 2012: Henry Kapteyn and Margaret Murnane for pioneering work on the generation of ultra-short laser pulses with application to X-ray physics (Kapteyn) and molecular physics (Murnane), Jorge G. Rocca for tabletop X-ray laser.
- 2013: Shaul Mukamel for pioneering work on novel and multidimensional molecular spectroscopy, Peter Nordlander for fundamental theoretical work in plasmonics, Susanne Yelin for pioneering contributions to the understanding of coherent phenomena from super radiances to ultra-cold molecules.
- 2014: Pierre Meystre for pioneering work in many-body theory quantum optics from free electron lasers to quantum gases, Shi-Yao Zhu for pioneering contributions from lasing without population inversion (LWI) to squeezed spontaneous emission, M. Suhail Zubairy for fundamental work from noise-free amplification to Super Rayleigh resolution.
- 2015: Hui Cao for control of quantum optics processes in nanostructures and understanding of color generation in nature, Douglas Stone for theoretical work on quantum optics of mesoscopic solid-state structures, Vladislav Yakovlev
- 2016: Robin Côté , Maciej Lewenstein (theoretical quantum optics), John Madey (free electron laser), Anton Zeilinger (quantum teleportation and others)
- 2017: Naomi Halas , Mikhail Lukin , Rainer Weiss
- 2018: Peter Zoller , Jian-Wei Pan , Ernst Rasel
- 2019: Paul Corkum , Don Page , William Unruh
- 2020: Stephen E. Harris , Christopher R. Monroe , Alexei V. Sokolov