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==