Optica (formerly OSA), the Optica Foundation (formerly OSA Foundation) and APS Division of Laser Science are pleased to recognize and celebrate the achievements of several award and honor recipients during FiO. Please enjoy the FIO LS Awards Ceremony.
Ceremony Program
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Connie Chang-Hasnain, 2021 Optica President
Optica’s Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus W. Quinn Prize
- Federico Capasso, Harvard University, USA
Optica Honorary Members
- Milton M T Chang, Incubic, LLC, USA
- Erich P Ippen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Optica Awards & Medals
- Edwin Land Medal, Joseph A. Izatt, Duke University, USA
- Adolph Lomb Medal, Laura Waller, University of California Berkeley, USA
- C.E.K. Mees Medal, Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop, University of Queensland, Australia
- R. W. Wood Prize, Tobias Kippenberg, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
- Esther Hoffman Beller Medal, Nicholas Massa, Springfield Technical Community College, USA
- Stephen D. Fantone Distinguished Service Award, Anthony M. Johnson, University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), USA
- Treasurer's Award, Kelly Cohen, Optica Publishing Group, USA
- Treasurer's Award, Terence Rooney, Optica, USA
- Robert E. Hopkins Leadership Award, Pierre Chavel, Institut d'Optique, France
- Max Born Award, Anne L'Huillier, Lund University, Sweden
- Nick Holonyak Jr. Award, Martin D. Dawson, University of Strathclyde and Fraunhofer, UK
- Emmett N. Leith Medal, Bahram Javidi, University of Connecticut, USA
- Paul F. Forman Team Engineering Excellence Award, Infinera's Optical Innovation Team, USA
- Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize, Zeev Zalevsky, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
- David Richardson Medal, Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh, ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences & ICREA-Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, Barcelona, Spain
- Edgar D. Tillyer Award, David H. Brainard, University of Pennsylvania, USA
- Michael S. Feld Biophotonics Award, Arjun Yodh, University of Pennsylvania, USA
- Ellis R. Lippincott Award, Rohit Bhargava, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
- William F. Meggers Award, Keith Nelson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USAOptica Fellows
Optica Fellows
Introduction
Eric Mazur, Optica Foundation Chair
Diversity & Inclusion Recognition
- Fujitsu Network Communications, USA
- ICFO, Spain
Optica Foundation Recognitions
- Ivan P. Kamniow Early Career Professional Prize, Brandon Buscaino, Stanford University, USA
- Harvey Pollicove Memorial Scholarship, Tyler Peterson, University of Arizona, USA
- Milton and Rosalind Chang Pivoting Fellowship, Madison Rilling, Optonique, Québec’s Photonics Cluster, Canada
Introduction
Randy Bartels, APS DLS Chair
APS Fellows
Carl E. Anderson Division of Laser Science Dissertation Award
Sujatha Ramanujan, 2021 Optica Awards Council Chair
Selection and Review Committee Thank You and Credits