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Thursday 26 January
Best Student Oral Presentation Awards sponsored by NKT Photonics, Fianium, and PolarOnyx were awarded to three authors in the Fiber Lasers conference. From left to right are conference chair Eric Honea (Lockheed Martin Aculight), Arno Klenke (Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena and Helmholtz-Institute Jena) who won third place including $300 for "Coherently combined fiber CPA system delivering 3-mJ femtosecond pulses," Marko Laurila (Technical Univ. of Denmark) who won second place including $500 for "Efficient high-power fiber amplifier utilizing single mode distributed mode filtering bandgap rod fiber," Florian Jansen (Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena) who won first place including $1,000 for "26-mJ pulse energy Q-switched large-pitch fiber laser system with excellent beam quality," and conference committee chair Craig Robin (Air Force Research Lab).
Wednesday 25 January
The SPIE Green Photonics Award in the category
Laser-assisted Manufacturing and Micro/Nano Fabrication was presented during the LASE plenary session for "Femtosecond laser doping and nanostructuring of silicon for photovoltaics" by
Benjamin Franta, center,
Meng-Ju Sher,
Yu-Ting Lin,
Katherine Phillips, far left, and
Eric Mazur (Harvard University), for pioneering contributions in the development of advanced technologies for novel photovoltaic elements. The award was presented by
Steve Eglash (Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University), chair of the Green Photonics virtual conference, far right.
Tuesday 24 January SPIE Green Photonics awards were presented by
Steve Eglash at the OPTO plenary session in three categories:
Solid State Lighting and Displays, to "Infrared excited Yb: Er: Y2O2S phosphors with intense emission for lighting applications" by
Gangadharan Ajith Kumar, (pictured),
Madhab Pokhrel, and
Dhiraj Sardar (University of Texas at San Antonio), for the possible application in infrared excited LED, lasers, and displays.
Communications, to "Energy-efficient VCSELs for 'green' data and computer communication" by
Philip Moser (Technische Univ. Berlin), pictured;
James A. Lott (VI Systems GmbH);
Philip Wolf,
Gunter Larisch,
Alexey Payusov, and
Gerrit Fiol (Technische Univ. Berlin);
Nikolay Ledentsov (VI Systems GmbH); and
Werner Hofmann and
Dieter Bimberg (Technische Univ. Berlin), for pioneering contributions in the development of advanced technologies for energy-efficient light sources for data transmission.
Renewable Energy Generation: Fusion and Photovoltaics, to "Simulations of solar cell enhancement using whispering-gallery modes of dielectric nanospheres" by
Jonathan Grandidier, (pictured),
Dennis Callahan,
Michael Deceglie,
Jeremy Munday, and
Harry Atwater (California Institute of Technology), for pioneering contributions in the development of advanced technologies for the enhancement of solar cell performance.
Monday 23 January
The
JenLab Young Investigator Award was presented at the Multiphoton Microscopy in the Biomedical Sciences XII conference by
Peter So (Massachusetts Institute for Technology), far left,
Ammasi Periasamy (Univ. of Virginia), far right, and
Karsten König (JenLab GmbH), second from right, to
Jesse W. Wilson, second from left, for his paper titled, "In-vivo pump-probe microscopy of melanoma and pigmented lesions." The $2000 prize was donated by JenLab GmbH.
The
JenLab Best Poster Awards were presented to award winners left to right,
Evelien De Meulenaere (Katholieke Univ. Leuven),
Gaël Latour (Ecole Polytechnique),
Po-Yen Lin (National Yang-Ming Univ.) and
Amanda P. Siegel (Indiana Univ.). The awards were presented by
Ammasi Periasamy (Univ. of Virginia)
, far right,
Karsten König (JenLab GmbH), far left, and
Peter So (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), second from left
. The winners each received a $500 cash prize donated by various award sponsors.
Symposium Chair
Harald Schenk (Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems), at left, and Symposium Cochair
David Dickensheets (Montana State University), at right, presented
Myun-Sik Kim (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), with one of two Best Paper Awards sponsored by Dyoptyka: another Best Paper Award went to
Peter Buck (Toppan Photomasks). The Best Student Paper Award was sponsored by Vuzix and went to
Daniel McAdams and
Daniel Cole (University of Pittsburgh).
Sunday 22 January
The
Pascal Rol Award for Best Paper was presented to
Clemens Alt (center) for his presentation titled, "In vivo quantification of microglia dynamics with a scanning laser ophthalmoscope in a mouse model of focal laser injury." The award was presented by Ophthalmic Technologies XXII conference chairs
Per Söderburg (Uppsala Univ.), third from left,
Fabrice Manns (Univ. of Miami), second from right, and
Arthur Ho (Brien Holden Vision Institute), third from right. They are joined by session chairs
Daniel Palanker (Standford Univ.), far right, and
Ezra Maguen (American Eye Institute), second from left. The Pascal Rol Award was sponsored by the Brien Holden Vision Institute.
The
PicoQuant Young Investigator Award was awarded to
Hsiaolu Lee (no photo available) for the presentation, "Fluorescent saxitoxins for live cell imaging of single voltage-gated sodium ion channels beyond the optical diffraction limit." The award was presented by Single Molecule Spectroscopy and Imaging IV Session Chair
Zygmunt Karol Gryczynski, Univ. of North Texas Health Science Ctr. at Fort Worth. The $750 cash prize was donated by PicoQuant GmbH.
The
Ocean Optics Young Investigator Award was presented to
Nathan Withers (Univ. of New Mexico), second from right, for his paper titled, "Effects of LaF3:Ce nanoparticles capped with polyethylene glycol on human astrocytoma cells in vitro," at the Colloidal Nanocrystals for Biomedical Applications VII conference. The award was presented by
Marek Osinski (Univ. of New Mexico), far left,
Wolfgang Parak (Philipps-Univ. Marburg), second from left, and
Kevin Chittim (Ocean Optics), far right
. The prize consists of a $1,000 cash prize and $2,000 towards Ocean Optics Equiptment donated by Ocean Optics.
