OSA TODAY | 2010 FELLOWS

2010 OSA Fellows Sixty-three OSA members were elevated to the rank of fellow member by the Board of Directors at its meeting in October 2009. These new fellows will be recognized at conferences throughout 2010. The next deadline for nominations is June 15, 2010. More information is available from the OSA Awards Office ([email protected] or 1.202.416.1960). Please join OSA in congratulating your colleagues!

Miguel A. Alonso

Bernhard U. Braunecker

Timothy J. Carrig

Hung-chun Chang

University of Rochester, U.S.A.

Braunecker Engineering GmbH, Switzerland

Lockheed Martin Coherent Technologies, U.S.A.

National Taiwan University, Taiwan

For applying innovative lens design and optical processing concepts to a wide range of metrology.

For contributions through professional service and enhancing knowledge concerning tunable solid-state lasers and laser radar.

Nancy J. Coletta

Paul D. Corkum

Yiping Cui

Luiz Davidovich

New England College of Optometry, U.S.A.

National Research Council of Canada, Canada

Southeast University, China

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

For noteworthy contributions to the understanding of the spatial limits to vision, with special emphasis on myopia.

For field-opening contributions to attosecond science.

For the development of sophisticated quantitative methods to analyze electromagnetic wave propagation in general and for development of asymptotic methods to study wave field propagation through inhomogeneous media in particular.

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For pioneering contributions to the understanding of nonlinear and luminescent properties of polymeric, organic and nanophotonic materials, especially photorefractive and multi-photon absorption mechanisms.

For contributions to numerical analysis and modeling of optical and THz guided-wave structures, including development of improved finite-difference mode solvers, novel pseudospectral analysis methods and beam-propagation methods.

For his pioneering role in LatinAmerican quantum optics and results in cavity QED, noise reduction in lasers, entanglement, decoherence and the quantumclassical limit.

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Michael D. Fayer

Ione Fine

Joseph E. Ford

Jesper Glückstad

Stanford University, U.S.A.

University of Washington, U.S.A.

For seminal contributions to the understanding of dynamics and interactions in liquids through development and applications of ultrafast nonlinear vibrational experimental methods and spectroscopy.

For landmark research bridging basic and clinical science to understand neural reorganization and rehabilitation following visual deprivation and for active service benefiting OSA’s Vision and Color Division.

University of California San Diego, U.S.A.

Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Denmark

For pioneering research in freespace optical technology, including the first use of micromechanics for equalization and switching in wavelength-multiplexed communications.

For pioneering the development of the generalized phase contrast (GPC) method and its applications, including those in optical trapping and biophotonics.

Anderson S.L. Gomes

Qihuang Gong

James G. Grote

Lakshminarayan Hazra

Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil

Peking University, China

Air Force Research Laboratory, U.S.A.

University of Calcutta, India

For numerous contributions, including ultrafast nonlinear optics, characterization techniques, doped-fiber amplifiers and random lasers.

For outstanding contributions to ultrafast organic optical nonlinearities and photonic crystal switches and for international leadership in advancing optics.

For pioneering research in polymer and DNA-based electro-optic materials and devices.

For significant contribution in lens design, image formation, diffractive optics, and a pioneering role in the growth of optics education in India.

Eric G. Johnson

Jin Ung Kang

Guillermo H. Kaufmann

DaiSik Kim

University of North Carolina at Charlotte, U.S.A.

Johns Hopkins University, U.S.A.

Instituto de Fisica Rosario, Argentina

Seoul National University, South Korea

For contributions to speckle metrology and the development of novel fringe analysis methods.

For contributions to ultrafast studies of semiconductors, plasmonics and near-field optics.

For seminal contributions to micro-optics and nanophotonics, with particular emphasis on active and passive photonic devices.

For contributions to spatial soliton nonlinear optics and for development of novel fiber lasers and fiber-optic subsystems for broadband RF signal processing and communications.

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Frederic A. Kish, Jr.

Thomas F. Krauss

Laurens (Kobus) Kuipers

Michael G. Littman

Infinera, U.S.A.

University of St. Andrews, U.K.

Princeton University, U.S.A.

For the development and commercialization of high-efficiency transparent-substrate AlGaInP LEDs and the first practical monolithic large-scale InP photonic integrated circuits.

For pioneering and strategic contributions to photonic crystals and photonic crystal waveguides.

FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF), The Netherlands

Walter Margulis

Michel E. Marhic

John C. Mather

Toshio Morioka

Acreo AB, Sweden

Swansea University, U.K.

For significant contributions to second-harmonic generation in glass, optical-fiber poling, and fiber devices.

For pioneering contributions to the development of fiber optical parametric amplifiers as a potentially viable technology.

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, U.S.A.

NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, Japan

For extraordinarily precise measurements of the cosmic microwave background radiation of the Big Bang.

For pioneering contributions to optical signal processing based on optical nonlinearities in ultrafast and broadband optical fiber communications systems.

André E. Mysyrowicz

Patrick P. Naulleau

Johan Nilsson

Bishnu P. Pal

École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées, France

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, U.S.A.

University of Southampton, U.K.

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India

For seminal contributions in femtosecond filamentation in transparent media and nonlinear optics in semiconductors.

For significant contributions to the characterization of extreme ultraviolet imaging systems, particularly for groundbreaking work in at-wavelength interferometry and variable-coherence illuminators.

For seminal contributions to the development and demonstration of high-power fiber lasers.

For pioneering contributions to design and the realization of specialty optical fibers and fiber components, photonics education and voluntary services to OSA.

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For pioneering visualization of and obtaining fundamental insight in light propagation through nanostructures in space and time.

For contributions in optics, science and engineering, including development of grazing-incidence methods for tuning the frequency of lasers.

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Gregory J. Quarles

Siddharth Ramachandran

Nirmala Ramanujam

Kathleen A. Richardson

VLOC, Inc., U.S.A.

Boston University, U.S.A.

Duke University, U.S.A.

Clemson University, U.S.A.

For the characterization, spectroscopy and industrial development of rare-earth and transition metal-ion-doped solid-state laser materials.

For pioneering contributions to fiber optics, including spatial mode conversion and the use of higherorder modes for fiber lasers and nonlinear optical devices.

For the development of quantitative optical spectroscopy and spectral imaging approaches and the translation of these tools to address clinical problems in breast cancer.

For contributions to the advancement of glass science in optics through teaching and research across institutions and international boundaries.

Giancarlo C. Righini

Austin J. Roorda

Mark L. Schattenburg

Mark Shtaif

IFAC CNR National Research Council of Italy, Italy

University of California Berkeley, U.S.A

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A.

Tel Aviv University, Israel

For outstanding contributions in the field of optical materials and components, as well as significant contributions to international professional societies of optics and photonics.

For outstanding contributions to high-resolution imaging of the living eye with important applications to fundamental understanding of the structure and function of the normal and diseased eye and for improved understanding of visual optics.

For advances in diffractiongrating fabrication technology.

For fundamental contributions to the understanding and modeling of propagation phenomena in fiber-optic transmission.

Gennady Shvets

Jagdish P. Singh

Narsingh Bahadur Singh

Igor Smolyaninov

University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A.

Mississippi State University, U.S.A.

Northrop Grumman Corporation, U.S.A.

BAE Systems, U.S.A.

For pioneering work in advancing laser sensing techniques through rigorous laser spectroscopy of materials in harsh and complex environments.

For the growth, design and development of novel crystal-based optical devices.

For experimental and theoretical contributions to the science of optical and negative-index metamaterials, including first demonstrations of super-sensing and extraordinary optical transmission in mid-infrared using nanostructured polaritonic films.

For outstanding research contributions in the areas of plasmonics, optical metamaterials and transformation optics and for a distinguished record of service to the optics community.

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Alfred Douglas Stone

Ching-Cherng Sun

Richard L. Sutherland

Takunori Taira

Yale University, U.S.A.

National Central University, Taiwan

SAIC, U.S.A.

Institute for Molecular Science, Japan

For contributions to the understanding of complex, disordered and wave-chaotic optical media and cavities and to general laser theory.

For outstanding contributions on volume holography, optical information processing and optics for solid-state lighting.

For significant contributions to the application of nonlinear optical materials, liquid crystals, and composite polymer-liquid-crystal holographic gratings to optical devices.

Markus Edgar Testorf

Andreas Tünnermann

Glenn A. Tyler

J. Scott Tyo

Dartmouth College, U.S.A.

Fraunhofer IOF, Germany

University of Arizona, U.S.A

For contributions to optical science and engineering, in particular his development of optical design tools based on phase-space representations of fields.

For outstanding work and leadership in high-power solid-state and fiber laser technology and pioneering contributions to the development of laser micromachining.

The Optical Sciences Company, U.S.A.

Eric Udd

Thomas Udem

Victor G. Veselago

Ge Wang

Columbia Gorge Research, U.S.A.

Max-Planck Institut für Quantenoptik, Germany

A.M. Prokhorov Institute of General Physics, Russia

Virginia Tech, U.S.A.

For groundbreaking work on precision spectroscopy with laser frequency combs.

For the invention of negative refraction, which spawned widespread international activity in the multidisciplinary field of metamaterials, including such effects as superlensing and cloaking.

For developments associated with fiber-optic sensor technology, including measurement of rotation, acoustics, pressure, temperature and strain, as well as contributions to the field of fiber-optic smart structures.

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For significant contributions to the field of adaptive optics and atmospheric propagation and for management expertise leading to the growth of the Optical Sciences Company.

For seminal contributions to solidstate lasers and nonlinear optics, especially for new materials, laser ceramics and pioneering work in high-brightness micro-photonics and their applications.

For contributions to the design, optimization and operation of optical and infrared imaging polarimeters for remote sensing applications.

For pioneering contributions to the development of bioluminescence tomography.

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Adam Wax

Frank W. Wise

Ulrike K. Woggon

Ping Yang

Duke University, U.S.A.

Cornell University, U.S.A.

For pioneering contribution to ultrafast nonlinear waves, the first observation of solitons that are trapped in both time and space, and self-similar pulses in lasers.

Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

Texas A&M University, U.S.A.

For contributions to the fields of light scattering and interferometry, especially for biomedical applications, and for service to OSA.

For seminal contributions to ultrafast spectroscopy and nano-optics of nanocrystals and quantum dots, and the demonstration of quantum optical principles with semiconductor nanostructures.

For development of seminal methods for computing the single-scattering properties of nonspherical ice crystals and aerosols, essential to understanding atmospheric optics.

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Jianping Yao

Jianjun Yu

University of Ottawa, Canada

NEC Laboratories America Inc., U.S.A.

For major contributions to the optical generation and processing of microwave and UWB signals.

For contributions to superbroadband optical wireless integration and high-speed optical transmission systems.

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Xiaocong Yuan Nankai University, China

For contributions to applications of optical vortex beams for trapping, manipulation, sensing and imaging, including radially polarized beams for surface-plasmon-resonance-enabled sensing and microscopic imaging.

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