The winners of the esteemed Society Career Awards, together with the Laser Instrumentation Award and the Industry Achievement Award, have been revealed by the IEEE Photonics Society. The Photonics Society Joint Awards Committee gives these honors for exceptional achievements to the field of photonics. The Aron Kressel Award, the Engineering Achievement Award, the Quantum Electronics Award, and the William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award comprise the Society Career Awards.
Mona Jarrahi received the Aron Kressel Award; her affiliation is Professor and Northrop Grumman. UCLA endowed chair in electrical and computer engineering
Development of terahertz, infrared, millimeter-wave sensing, imaging, computing, and communication integrated systems as well as ultrafast electrical and optoelectronic devices. Jarrahi works with quantum structures, new optical materials, and plasmonics.
Highlight: Showcased on the "All Things Photonics" podcast's fifth season from Photonics Media.
Recipient of the Engineering Achievement Award: Pavel Cheben is honorary professor at many universities and Principal Research Officer of the National Research Council of Canada.
Advances in subwavelength integrated photonics technology and metamaterial waveguides in silicon photonic waveguide devices define contribution.
Prize for Quantum Electronics: Alexey Gorshkov
Staff physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology; leader of a research group at the University of Maryland.
With uses in quantum computers, sensors, and networks, major contributions to the knowledge, design, and management of interacting quantum systems help shape these fields.
Andrea Alù, founding director of the Photonics Initiative at the City University of New York (CUNY), received the William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award affiliationally. She is a distinguished professor at CUNY.
Work on photonic metamaterials and their uses is seminal. Among the notable successes are first experimental proof of a three-dimensional electromagnetic cloak and other revolutionary findings in metamaterials and quantum-engineered metasurfaces.
Bob Alfano received the Laser Instrumentation Award; he is a distinguished professor at the City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate School.
Discovery of tuned Cr4 and Cr3 lasers as well as a supercontinuum light source. Alfano's work has profoundly affected optical characteristics of materials as well as ultrafast and steady-state spectroscopy.
Recipient of the Industry Achievement Award is Waguih Ishak; affiliation is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.
Leadership in the creation and introduction of photonic products commercial VCSELs and the computer laser mouse among other things. Ishak oversaw important research in displays, interconnects, sensors, and high-speed electronics and built the Corning West Technology Center in Palo Alto.
In conclusion
The honors given by the IEEE Photonics Society emphasize the extraordinary contributions these people have made to the discipline of photonics. Their efforts not only forward knowledge but also have pragmatic effects on several sectors and technology.
0 Comments