OSA TODAY | 2006 AWARDS

2006 OSA Awards OSA is proud to announce the winners of its 2006 awards and medals. Th e Society has chosen to honor these distinguished individuals because they have exhibited dedication, ingenuity and perseverance in attaining the highest level of scientifi c achievement in their chosen fi elds. Th e OSA Board of Directors approved the awards at its meeting in February. Most awards will be presented at Frontiers in Optics 2006, the 90th OSA annual meeting.

Esther Hoffman Over his career, Dr. Lee has Overall Distinction in Optics Beller Medal been a member of the National Frederic Ives Medal/ In recognition of outstanding Academy of Science in Korea Jarus W. Quinn Endowment contributions to optical science (1981), president of the Korean and engineering education Physical Society (1979-1981), The highest award of the Society, the Ives Medal honorary president of the recognizes overall distinction in optics Optical Society of Korea (1989) >> To Erich P. Ippen for and a fellow of OSA and the laying the foundations Institute of Physics in the United of ultrafast science and Kingdom. He was the vice engineering, and providing president of the International vision and sustained Commission for Optics from leadership to the optics 1993 to 1999 and a council community member of UN University from 1989 to 1995. Dr. Ippen received his >> To Sang Soo Lee for laying In KAERI, Dr. Lee worked Ph.D. from the University the foundation for optical science on the reactor Cenenkov radia- of California at Berkeley and engineering in Korea through tion. He achieved the spectros- in 1968 and was a member of the technical staff 40-plus years of teaching and copy of the r-ray by measuring at Bell Laboratories from 1968 to 1980. In 1980, research the decay mode of CR from the he joined the faculty of MIT, where he is now the moment of scram of the reactor. Elihu Th omson Professor of Electrical Engineering Dr. Lee received his Ph.D. from In KAIST, his research was on and professor of physics. He is a member of the the Imperial College of Science laser development. He helped National Academy of Sciences, the National and Technology in the United design the variable polarization Academy of Engineering and the American Kingdom. He was a research dye laser for use in generating Academy of Arts and Sciences. fellow at Harvard University phase conjugate work, and the At Bell Labs in the mid-1970s, Dr. Ippen and from 1964 to 1965. He headed iodine photo-dissociation laser Charles Shank produced the fi rst pulses of light the physical research division for use in various material pro- shorter than 1 ps and carried out the fi rst femto- at the Korea Atomic Energy cessing. He developed a nearly second experiments in molecules, semiconductors Research Institute (KAERI) in aberration-free four-mirror and biological complexes. Since 1980, Dr. Ippen 1961, and became director in system for various applications, and his students have continued to advance fem- 1967. In 1970, he was director- including X-ray optics. tosecond science and technology, decreasing pulse general for Korea’s Offi ce of durations to less than two cycles, studying ultrafast Atomic Energy. He is professor phenomena in materials and developing compact emeritus and founding president short-pulse lasers and fi ber-optic devices for optical of the Korea Advanced Institute communications and signal processing. of Science and Technology (KAIST).

40 | OPN June 2006 www.osa-opn.org Max Born Award the standard quantum limit. From 2003 to 2005, he served have received their Ph.D. In recognition of contributions His current research involves as a distinguished lecturer of degrees. to physical optics scalable multiplexed ion traps the Institute of Electrical and His awards in- for quantum computing. Electronic Engineers/Lasers clude a Humboldt in Electro-Optics Society Prize, the 2000 Joseph Fraunhofer Award/ (IEEE/LEOS). IEEE Medical Robert M. Burley Prize Imaging Scientist In recognition of significant Goodman Book Award, an E.T.S. accomplishments in optical Writing Award Walton Award engineering A new biennial award sponsored from Science by OSA and SPIE and funded Foundation Ire- by the J.W. & H.M. Goodman land, and the 2005 Foundation, the Goodman C.E.K. Mees Medal >> To Richart E. Slusher Award recognizes a recent and from OSA. for outstanding experimental outstanding book in the field Dr. Barrett’s current research contributions to quantum optics of optics and photonics that is in image science, with in squeezed state generation, in has contributed significantly to applications in medicine and microcavity lasers and in optical research, teaching or the optics astronomy. He is director of the pulse propagation through and photonics industry. Center for Gamma-ray Imaging, periodic and nonlinear media an NIH-funded research resource >> To Susumu Noda for >> To Harrison H. Barrett and that develops state-of-the-art Dr. Slusher is director of fabricating some of the world’s Kyle J. Myers for their book, instruments for radiotracer quantum information research most advanced photonic crystals Foundations of Image Science studies of small animals. He at Lucent Technologies, Bell and photonic crystal devices, is also active in developing Laboratories in Murray Hill, working uncompromisingly at new methods for assessing and N.J. He received his Ph.D. in optical frequencies optimizing image quality and in physics from the University of applying parallel computers to California at Berkeley in 1965. Dr. Noda received his Ph.D. tomographic imaging. Since then, he has conducted in electronics from Kyoto research in optical and quantum University, Japan, in 1991. From physics at Bell Laboratories. He 1984 to 1988, he was with the directed a research department central research laboratory at in optical, quantum and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, device physics beginning in where he studied optoelectronic Dr. Barrett received a Ph.D. in 1977. He received the 1995 devices, including distributed applied physics from Harvard in Arthur Schawlow Prize in laser feedback lasers with a quantum 1969. He worked for the Raythe- spectroscopy from the American well and grating-coupled surface- on Research Division until 1974, Physical Society (APS). emitting lasers. when he came to the University Dr Slusher’s research interests In 1988, he joined Kyoto of Arizona. He is a professor in Dr. Myers received a Ph.D. have included Raman scattering University as an assistant the College of Medicine and the in optical sciences from the in solid He and semiconductors, professor in the department College of Optical Sciences, and University of Arizona in 1985. light scattering from laboratory of electronic science and he has appointments in applied Following a post-doc at Arizona, and Tokamak plasmas, laser engineering. He became an mathematics and biomedical en- she worked in the research labs annealing, nonlinear photonic associate professor in 1992 and gineering as well as the Arizona of Corning Inc. Since 1987, crystals, nonlinear optical a full professor in 2000. Cancer Center. she has worked for the Center waveguides and fibers, optical Since joining Kyoto Univer- In 1983, Dr. Barrett served for Devices and Radiological microresonators, quantum optics sity in 1988, Dr. Noda has been as acting director of the Optical Health at the U.S. Food and and quantum computation. studying quantum optoelectron- Sciences Center, and in 1990 he Drug Administration, where she He and his collaborators were ics, including photonic and was named a regents professor. is currently the director of the the first to observe squeezed quantum nanostructures. He He is a fellow of OSA, IEEE, Medical Imaging and Diagnos- light in 1985, a new quantum has been published in more than APS and the American Institute tics Laboratory. state of light with uncertainties 200 scientific journals. Dr. Noda of Medical and Biological Engi- She has been an active in one field component below has also served as director of a neering. He holds 22 U.S. pat- participant and program research project on photonic ents and has written more than committee member for the SPIE crystals at Japan’s Science and 150 technical papers. Under his Medical Imaging Symposium Technology Agency since 2000. direction, more than 50 students

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for many years. She is a After working at Bell Laborato- became head of Engineering and member of OSA and ries and Rockwell International, solid state device Applied Science. the Medical Image he returned to the University research at RCA Labora- He is an IEEE fellow and Perception Society of Illinois, where he holds the tories. His work with electro-op- a member of the American (MIPS), and she Intel Alumni Endowed Chair tic effects in liquid crystals led to Academy of Arts and Sciences. recently served in Electrical and Computer the first liquid-crystal displays for Dr. Heilmeier is chairman as co-chair of Engineering. He is a fellow of calculators, watches, computers emeritus of Telcordia Technolo- the Medical OSA, IEEE, APS and AAAS. and instrumentation. gies, formerly Bellcore. Prior to Image Perception He received the William Streifer In 1970, he was chosen as a his retirement in 1997, he was Conference Scientific Achievement Award White House fellow working on chairman and chief executive sponsored by and the ISCS Heinrich Welker long-range research and develop- officer. He is also a former direc- MIPS. She is Award, and was an IEEE/LEOS ment planning and technology tor of ADP Corp, TRW and a fellow of the Distinguished Lecturer. assessment as a special assistant Compaq Computer Corp. American Institute Dr. Coleman and his stu- to the Secretary of Defense. A for Medical and dents are studying quantum dots, year later, he was appointed assis- Ellis R. Lippincott Biological Engineering. quantum well heterostructures tant director of defense research Award The research group she directs and low-threshold and high- and engineering. He became In recognition of contributions is engaged in the areas of digital power single-mode index-guided director of the Defense Ad- to vibrational spectroscopy imaging system characterization, lasers. They have demonstrated vanced Research Projects Agency (co-sponsored with the Coblentz soft-copy display evaluation, reliable low-threshold index- (DARPA) in 1974. Society and the Society for computer-aided diagnosis, guided lasers and high-power In 1977, Dr. Heilmeier Applied Spectroscopy) ultrasound imaging and tissue lasers from lattice-mismatched joined Texas Instruments as characterization and advanced strain-accommodated InGaAs- vice president responsible for statistical methods for imaging GaAs heterostructures. This R&D in petroleum exploration, system evaluation. work has helped to confirm the systems technology, microelec- counter-intuitive notion that tronics and software for TI’s Nick Holonyak Jr. Award strained layer lasers—which are equipment businesses. In 1978, In recognition of significant now a critical component of he was appointed vice president contributions to optics based on fiber optic telecommunications of corporate research, develop- semiconductor-based devices systems—are indeed reliable in ment, engineering and strategic and optical materials, including the 980 nm wavelength range. planning. He was named senior basic science and technological vice president and chief technical >> To Hai-Lung Dai for seminal applications Edwin H. Land Medal officer in 1983. studies of the structure/dynamics In recognition of pioneering He has received numerous of radicals, highly excited entrepreneurial creativity that awards, including the National molecules, adsorbates and has had a major public impact Medal of Science by President buried interfaces at surfaces (co-sponsored with the Society for Bush (1991), the National through innovative spectroscopic Imaging Science and Technology) Academy of Engineering techniques, and for demonstrating Founders Award (1992) and extraordinarily efficient transition- the Eta Kappa Nu’s Vladimir dipole-mediated vibrational energy Karapetoff Eminent Members’ transfer Award (1993). He won the IEEE Medal of Honor in 1997 and the Dr. Dai received his Ph.D. from >> To James J. Coleman for John Fritz Award in 1999. the University of California a career of contributions to Dr. Heilmeier is a member at Berkeley in 1981. After quantum well and strained-layer of the Defense Science Board, postdoctoral study at MIT, he semiconductor lasers through the National Security Agency began his career at the University innovative epitaxial growth Advisory Board, the Board of Pennsylvania, where he served methods and novel device designs >> To George H. Heilmeier for of Directors of the MITRE as chairman of the chemistry the discovery of new electro-optic Corporation, the National department from 1996 to 2002 Dr. Coleman received his degrees effects in liquid crystals, and Academy of Engineering, the and is currently the Hirschmann- in electrical engineering from the visionary anticipation of today’s General Motors Technology Makineni professor of chemistry University of Illinois, Urbana. liquid crystal displays Advisory Board and the Board and director of the Penn Science of Overseers of the University Teacher Institute. He is the Dr. Heilmeier received his Ph.D. of Pennsylvania’s School of in solid-state electronics from Princeton University. In 1966, he

42 | OPN June 2006 www.osa-opn.org 2006 chair of the APS chemical Dr. Howell’s research interests atoms and molecules, optical necessary passive optical physics division. can be broadly categorized as frequency metrology, and components and instru- Dr. Dai has published 140 experimental quantum informa- ultrafast science and quantum ments required for papers and edited several mono- tion and atomic vapor physics. control. He has co-authored developing optical graphs in molecular and surface He has participated in experi- more than 150 technical papers networks. In 1996, sciences. His major research mental realizations of universal and is a recipient of a number the company accomplishments resulted from quantum cloning, phase-co- of awards from professional merged into JDS working with more than 50 variant quantum cloning, a societies and government Uniphase Inc. and Ph.D. and postdoctoral students. momentum-position realization agencies, including the Adolph became the world’s Their achievements include of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Lomb Medal from OSA, the largest supplier of discovering how long-range in- paradox, quantum imaging, Arthur S. Flemming Award, the a full range of fiber teractions contribute to collision qudit quantum information Presidential Early Career Award optic hardware. energy transfer, developing fast and high bandwidth quantum for Scientists and Engineers and During his career at time-resolved and multiple reso- entanglement. His group has the Commerce Department JDS Uniphase, Mr. Duck nance spectroscopy for detecting also recently demonstrated many group Gold Medal from the U.S. held vice president positions highly excited molecules and fractional delays in a hot alkali government. and worked on the research, transient radicals, and developing vapor and low-light cross-phase development and manufacture nonlinear optical spectroscopy modulation. David Richardson Medal of numerous passive optical for probing molecule-surface In recognition of contributions to components. He specialized in interactions. William F. Meggers Award optical engineering, primarily in the WDM technology, which was In recognition of outstanding commercial and industrial sectors one of the keys to meeting the

Adolph Lomb Medal work in spectroscopy © Couvrette/Ottawa explosive growth in bandwidth In recognition of noteworthy requirements demanded by the contributions made to optics telecommunications industry before reaching the age of 35 in the late 1990s. In 1999, Mr. Duck was made a fellow at JDS Uniphase. He retired from JDS Uniphase in 2001 and is currently self-employed at Ventana Management Services in Ottawa. >> To Gary S. Duck for innova- During his 25-year career in >> To Jun Ye for development tion and leadership in the develop- fiber optics, Mr. Duck developed of innovative spectroscopic ment and manufacture of optical or co-developed numerous opti- techniques based on femtosecond components and instrumentation cal components for the telecom >> To John Charles Howell optical frequency combs for the realization of practical and industry. Most were used in for innovative contributions in reliable wavelength-division-multi- the implementation of WDM quantum optics, particularly to Dr. Ye received his Ph.D. from plexed optical fiber telecommuni- systems to greatly increase the aspects of quantum cloning, the University of Colorado, cations systems capacity of optical networks. He violations of Bell’s inequalities and Boulder, in 1997. He was an was also involved in the manu- maximal photonic entanglement R.A. Millikan Postdoctoral Fel- Mr. Duck received his M.Sc. in facture and volume production low at the California Institute of engineering physics at McMaster processes for many of these Dr. Howell received his Ph.D. Technology from 1997 to 1999. University in Hamilton, Ontario, devices, and the development of in physics from Pennsylvania He has been a fellow of JILA, the Canada. He started his career in generic techniques for improv- State University. For his post- National Institute of Standards the late 1970s at Bell-Northern ing optical isolation, return doctoral work, he joined Dirk and Technology (NIST) and the Research, where he was one of a loss, directivity and polarization Bouwmeester’s group at Oxford University of Colorado since team of physicists who designed properties of components. He University. In 2002, he joined 2001. He has been a fellow of first-generation components for holds more than 40 patents. the department of physics and NIST since 2004. He is also a fiber optic systems. In 1981, he astronomy at the University of fellow of the APS and OSA. and three other co-workers (Jozef Rochester. His research interests include Straus, Bill Sinclair and Philip precision measurement, ultracold Garel-Jones) co-founded JDS Optics. The company provided the telecom industry with the

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Edgar D. Tillyer Award Charles Hard Townes presently in its on integrated In recognition of Award fourth edition. optical devices, distinguished work in In recognition of outstanding Among other inven- vertical cavity surface the field of vision contributions to quantum tions, he is credited for creating emitting lasers and high electronics the hollow-fiber compressor, power semiconductor lasers which has allowed generation of for communications, medical, high-energy few-cycle laser pulses industrial and aerospace with applications in extreme applications. nonlinear optics and attosecond Based on this work, Dr. sciences. Scifres co-founded SDL, Inc., in 1983. He served as CEO, John Tyndall Award president and chairman of In recognition of contributions the board of SDL, Inc. until to fiber optic technology (co- February 2001, when SDL >> To Donald I.A. sponsored with IEEE/LEOS) merged with JDS Uniphase MacLeod for unparalleled >> To Orazio Svelto for virtuosity in the psychophysical pioneering work on ultrashort laser Corporation in the largest dissection of the visual pathway pulses and solid state lasers, and technology buyout reported at into the stages that culminate in for the invention of the hollow-fiber that time. color, spatial and temporal vision compressor, leading to advances He served as co-chair and in extreme nonlinear optics and chief strategy officer of JDS Dr. MacLeod attended Glasgow attosecond science Uniphase until January 2003. University in Scotland. Follow- After that, he founded SDL ing a year at the Institute for Orazio Svelto received his Ventures, LLC, an investment Perception in Soesterberg, he “Laurea” degree in nuclear firm focused on early stage went to Cambridge, where he engineering in 1960 and the >> To Donald R. Scifres for investments in the fields of worked under the guidance of “Libera Docenza” degree in seminal contributions to semicon- lasers, photonics, fiber optics and Paul Whittle in the Psychological quantum electronics in 1967. ductor laser diode technology that microwave communications. Laboratory and William Rushton Since 1975, he has been powers the optical fiber networks Dr. Scifres is a fellow of in the department of zoology. director of the Center of and for being an entrepreneur IEEE and OSA and a member In 1974, after a visiting Quantum Electronics of the in creating one of the premier of the National Academy of appointment in the Institute of Italian National Research companies that bring to practice Engineering, APS and SPIE. Molecular Biophysics at Florida Council. He has been a professor the semiconductor diode laser He holds more than 140 U.S. State University, he joined (to- of quantum electronics at the technology to serve the fiber patents, and has published more gether with Bob Boynton) the Polytechnic School of Milan optics industry than 300 technical articles and department of psychology at the since 1976. He is a fellow of book contributions. University of California, San OSA and IEEE and a member Dr. Scifres received his Ph.D. in He has received a number Diego, where he remains today. of the Italian Academies electrical engineering from the of IEEE awards, including the Dr. MacLeod’s research expe- “Accademia dei XL” and University of Illinois in 1972. Jack Morton Medal (1985), the rience and current interests are “Accademia dei Lincei.” That year, he joined Xerox PARC LEOS Award for Engineering in color vision, visual sensitivity Dr. Svelto’s research has cov- and set up a new laboratory for Excellence (1994), the Third and visual resolution. He strives ered much in the fields of laser the study of semiconductor lasers Millennium Medal (2000), and to understand the process of physics and quantum electronics, and integrated optics. the Robert Noyce Medal (2003). human vision in physiological or starting from the beginnings of In 1974, he and his co- He has also received OSA’s mechanistic terms, generally us- these disciplines. He has worked workers reported and patented Edward H. Land Medal (1996), ing the tools of psychophysics in on ultrashort-pulse generation the first distributed feedback the APS George E. Pake Prize conjunction with electrophysio- and applications, development semiconductor injection laser, (1997), the Rank Prize (2001) logical and anatomical data from of novel laser resonators and which became the preferred from The Rank Foundation animals to trace the sequence of mode-selecting techniques, laser light source for high-speed of the United Kingdom and operations that occurs as infor- applications in biology and bio- long-distance optical fiber the Eta Kappa Nu Eminent mation flows from the retina to medicine and the development communications. Dr. Scifres the brain. of novel solid-state lasers. also performed pioneering work He is the author of the book Principles of Lasers, which is

44 | OPN June 2006 www.osa-opn.org Member Award (2003). Dr. Labs, he studied small molecule optical properties of nano- of spin-polarized Scifres has served as president relaxation dynamics in rare gas crystals, nanorods, nano-wires electrons and nuclei in of IEEE/LEOS, the Laser and solids and transient Raman and quantum wells; optically semiconductors. His Electro Optics Manufacturers structures of short-lived chemical active Si-based structures, principal research Association and as a member of intermediates. Auger processes and impact interests over the the board of directors of OSA After 1983, he focused on ionization, and the infl uence past 25 years and the board of governors of semiconductor nanocrystal syn- of magnetic and electric fi elds have been in the IEEE/LEOS. thesis, spectroscopy and theory. on the optical spectra of low- areas of quantum Confocal microscope methods dimensional structures; and the confi nement of R. W. Wood Prize were developed to record the theory of optical and electric electronic and In recognition of an outstanding luminescence of single molecules fi eld manipulation of electron vibronic excitations discovery, scientifi c or and nanocrystals at 23° C. spin and an electron spin in semiconductor technological achievement or At Columbia, his research coherence time for spintronics nanocrystals. invention interests include carbon nano- and quantum information In 1976, he received tubes, local electromagnetic fi eld >> To Louis E. Brus, Alexander processing. a State Prize in Physics L. Efros and Aleksey Ekimov enhancement and transition of the U.S.S.R. and, in 1996, for the discovery of nanocrystal metal oxide nanocrystals. he was awarded the Alexander quantum dots and pioneering von Humboldt Senior Scientist studies of their electronic and Award. He is a member of optical properties the APS.

About the 2007 Awards Dr. Ekimov graduated from the Leningrad State University and For information Dr. Efros received his Ph.D. joined the A.F. Ioff e Physical- on nominating from St. Petersburg Technical Technical Institute of the Russian candidates for next University. From 1981 to 1990, Academy of Sciences in 1968. year’s awards, please contact the Dr. Brus has a Ph.D. from he worked at the Ioff e Institute, In 1977, he joined the S.I. OSA Executive Leningrad. From 1990 to 1992, Vavilov State Optical Institute Columbia University in chemi- Offi ce Programs he worked at the Physics Depart- as a senior research associate and cal physics. As a lieutenant in Department at ment of the Technical University group leader. He joined the Ioff e the U.S. Navy, he worked in 202-416-1969 of Munich. Institute as a leading research the solid state and chemistry or e-mail divisions of the Naval Research Since 1999, he has been a associate in 1990. He received [email protected]. Laboratory. senior researcher at the Naval a Candidate degree (Ph.D) and In 1973, he joined the chem- Research Laboratory, where he doctor degree (habilitation) at To learn more, visit istry and materials research area started to work as a consultant in the A.F. Ioff e Physical-Techni- the OSA Web site: of Bell Laboratories in Murray 1993. He is a co-author on more cal Institute in 1974 and 1990, www.osa.org Hill, N.J. He joined the Colum- than 140 articles and a fellow of respectively. Since 1999, he has bia faculty in 1996. the APS. been at Nanocrystals Technol- At NRL, Dr. Brus worked Dr. Efros’s research has ogy Inc. on chemical lasers, chemisorp- been on the theory of optical, While in the Ioff e Institute, tive luminescence and molecular transport and magnetic his research resulted in the radiationless transitions. In Bell properties of low-dimensional fi rst observation of optical semiconductor structures, pumping and optical detection including linear and nonlinear

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