The Paul F. Forman Team Engineering Excellence Award was first introduced as the ''Engineering Excellence Award'' by the
Optical Society in 1989 and was awarded individually, or shared among individuals. In 2007 it was named in honor of Paul F. Forman.
This award recognizes technical achievements in optical engineering as well as contributions to society such as engineering education. It award is sponsored by Zygo Corporation, Canon Inc, Optical Solutions Group at Synopsys, Cambridge Research & Instrumentation, and several individual contributors.
List of winners
Source
The Optical Society* 2020 2-Photon Optical Clock Collaboration
*2019 Headwall Photonics, Inc., Special Projects Team
* 2018 Adaptive Optics Facility on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory
* 2017 Guide Star Alliance
* 2016 Advanced
LIGO Engineering Team
* 2015 Logic Analysis Tool Team (LAT Team)
* 2014 Intel® Silicon Photonics Solutions Group
* 2013 ZygoLOT Automotive Precision Optical Team
* 2012 Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) Lidar Team
* 2011 Tomasz S. Tkaczyk
* 2010
Alan E. Willner
Alan E. Willner is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California. He was also president of the Optical Society in 2016.
Willner is known for his research on optical fiber communications and free- ...
* 2009
Stephen A. Boppart
* 2008 Michael J. Bechtold
* 2007 Ming C. Wu
* 2006 Jean-Claude Diels
* 2005 René-Jean Essiambre
* 2005 Michael G. Littman
* 2004 Shun-Lien Chuang, S. Chandrasekhar
* 2003 L. Ramdas Ram-Mohan, Paul R. Dumas, Mark E. Lowry, Alan H. Gnauck
* 2002 Tim Day, Christopher R. Doerr, David W. Peckham
* 2001 Henry A. Blauvelt, Michael A. Klug, David G. Mehuys, Dale E. Morton
* 2000 J. W. Anello, Jr., A. Erstling, A. C. Tam, R. L. Hartman, L. J. P. Ketelsen, J. A. Grenko, W-T. Tzang
* 1999 Denis Barbier, Valentin Gapontsev, Igor Koltchanov, Olaf Lenzmann, Herman Reedy
* 1998 Lee R. Shiozawa, Kenneth L. Walker
* 1997 Donald M. Combs, John J. Mader, Jeffrey W. Roblee, Edward A. Yobaccio, Paul R. Yoder, Jr.
* 1996 Gary Blough, Teddi C. Laurin
* 1995
Francisco J. Duarte, John D. Gonglewski, Gary Guenther, Melvyn H. Kreitzer, Frank Luecke, David G. Voelz
* 1994 Peter P. Clark, Dale E. Crane, Jay M. Eastman, John Michael Guerra, Jon Van Tassell
* 1993 J. H. Adams, L. G. Cook, G. Duplain, Y. P. Khimich, S. V. Lubarsky, F. R. Nash, P. Parayanthal, D. A. Roberts
* 1992 Bertrand H. Johnson, Louis A. Koszi, Anthony R. Phillips, Jr.
* 1991 Leroy D. Dickson, J. Tendra S. Goela, Un-Chul Paek, Michael A. Pickering, Raymond L. Taylor
* 1990 Lawrence Lin, Eric Rawson
* 1989 Stanley W. Haskell, Robert A. Jones, David Smithgall, Gary Starkweather, Laurence S. Watkins
See also
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List of engineering awards
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List of physics awards
This list of physics awards is an index to articles about notable awards for physics.
The list includes lists of awards by the American Physical Society of the United States, and of the Institute of Physics of the United Kingdom, followed by a lis ...
References
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Engineering awards
Awards of Optica (society)