2009 OSA Fellows

Sixty-one OSA members were elevated to the rank of fellow by the Board of Directors at its meeting in October 2008. These new fellows will be recognized at conferences throughout 2009.

The next deadline for nominations is June 15, 2009. More information is available from the OSA Awards Office (email awards@osa.org or telephone 202.416.1960).

Please join OSA in congratulating your colleagues!

	Hans-Albert Bachor, Australian Natl. Univ., Australia For contributions to experimental quantum optics and international engagement and for organizing Australia’s premier institution for quantum-atom optics, pioneering multimode squeezing and making Australia visible in quantum optics.
	Bill Barnes, Univ. of Exeter, UK For many important and ground-breaking contributions in the area of light–matter interactions, particularly in the study of surface plasmons and surface-plasmon-mediated interactions.
	Stephen Mark Barnett, Univ. of Strathclyde, UK For profound contributions to quantum optics, including the introduction of the Hermitian “Pegg-Barnett” phase operator, a consistent theory of dielectric quantum electrodynamics, and an information measure of entanglement.
	Luc Bergé, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, France For seminal contributions to the understanding of optical self- focusing, in particular wave collapse, filamentation and compression of ultrashort pulses.
	Stephen A. Boppart, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA For developing and translating innovative technologies in biophotonics and biomedical optics to applications in biology, medicine, and surgery.
	Samuel Leon Braunstein, Univ. of York, UK For pioneering contributions to quantum optics and quantum information, particularly for ground-breaking work in optical quantum teleportation, quantum imaging, and quantum computing.
	Mark Lultzen Brongersma, Stanford Univ., USA For pioneering and seminal works on plasmonics and silicon nanophotonics.
	Ann Catrina Bryce, Univ. of Glasgow, UK For contributions to processing methods and device designs for compound semiconductor integrated optoelectronic devices.
	Vladmir Buzek, Slovenska Akademia Vied, Slovakia For fundamental work in quantum optics and quantum information, particularly for outstanding work on quantum cloning and quantum state estimation.
	Rama Chellappa, Univ. of Maryland, USA For pioneering and sustained contributions to image and video-based pattern recognition and computer vision.
	Zhigang Chen, San Francisco State Univ., USA, and Nankai Univ., China For important contributions on spatial solitons and nonlinear waves in photonic lattices and for world-class research work carried out at an undergraduate institution.
	Julian Cheng, Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA For original contributions to VCSEL technology, including long-wavelength VCSELs, WDM arrays, and multifunctional VCSEL-based optoelectronic integrated circuits.
	Dipak Chowdhury, Corning Inc., France For optics publications, a distinguished record of consistent engineering-oriented ideas for telecommunication fiber optics, and an outstanding management ability, all contributing significantly toward the advancement of optics.
	Mark Cronin-Golomb, Tufts Univ., USA For contributions to nonlinear optics including the theory of photorefractive beam coupling and the development of photo-refractive devices.
	Thomas E. Darcie, Univ. of Victoria, Canada For contributions to the understanding, theory, and applications of optical communications technology leading to significant advances in broadband optical access systems.
	Scott A. Diddams, Natl. Inst. of Standards and Technology, USA For seminal work in the area of precision spectroscopy and optical frequency metrology with femtosecond-laser frequency combs.
	Christopher R. Doerr, Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent, USA For significant contributions to planar lightwave/photonic integrated circuits.
	Daniel Dolfi, Thales Research and Technology, France For outstanding capacity of innovation in the general field of optical signal processing through intimate physical understanding of phenomena and devices.
	Edwin W. Eloranta, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, USA For development and availability to atmospheric research of high-spectral-resolution and volume-imaging lidar plus important data analysis methods.
	Thomas Elsaesser, Max-Born Inst., Germany For pioneering contributions to the development of mid-infrared and X-ray ultrashort pulses and to their use in understanding molecular dynamics and semiconductor nanostructures.
	Martin E. Fermann, IMRA America Inc., USA For sustained and pioneering contributions to femtosecond fiber laser technology and high-power fiber lasers.
	Joseph A. Izatt, Duke Univ., USA For pioneering contributions to the field of biomedical optics, particularly the development of technology and applications of optical coherence tomography and microscopy.
	Ferenc Krausz, Max-Planck Inst. für Quantenoptik, Germany For pioneering contributions to establishing experimental attosecond science, by generating few-cycle light with controlled waveform and by generating and measuring attosecond pulses and using them for observation of the motion of electrons on the atomic scale.
	Kazuo Kuroda, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan For contributions to nonlinear optics including photorefractive materials and frequency conversion of femtosecond pulses.
	Falk Lederer, Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena, Germany For pioneering results in the theory of nonlinear guided waves, discrete optical solitons, and nonlinear optics of dissipative and periodic structures.
	Juerg Leuthold, Univ. Karlsruhe, Germany For pioneering contributions in the field of all-optical communications and optical processing made consistently, over many years, which have had a clear and lasting impact.
	Ming-Jun Li, Corning Inc., USA For significant contributions to advances in optical fiber technology, including both theoretical understanding and practical applications.
	Susana Marcos, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Spain For contributions to visual optics, in particular in the areas of photoreceptor optics and ocular aberrations, with advancements in basic knowledge of the optical properties of the eye and relevant ophthalmic applications.
	Carmen S. Menoni, Colorado State Univ., USA For contributions to nanoscale resolution imaging using compact extreme ultraviolet lasers and to the understanding of semiconductor optical materials and devices.
	Rick Millane, Univ. of Canterbury, New Zealand For contributions to image reconstruction, phase retrieval, and diffraction by disordered systems.
	Daniel M. Mittleman, Rice Univ., USA For contributions to the development of techniques for imaging, sensing, and spectroscopy using terahertz radiation.
	Martin Moskovits, Univ. of California Santa Barbara, USA For fundamental contributions toward the understanding of the surface-enhanced Raman effect.
	Pantazis Mouroulis, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA For wide-ranging contributions to optical design and engineering in the fields of visual instrumentation, imaging spectroscopy, and fiber optic and diffractive components.
	Chang Hee Nam, Korea Advanced Inst. of Science and Technology, South Korea For contributions to the understanding and optimization of high-harmonic-generation processes for the development of attosecond coherent x-ray sources and for innovations in related femtosecond laser technology.
	Evgeniy E. Narimanov, Purdue Univ., USA For fundamental contributions to optical imaging with subwavelength resolution, novel microlasers, and information-theoretical description of nonlinear fiber-optical systems.
	Jay Neitz, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA For advancing our understanding of the genetic and biological basis of human color vision.
	David Dodge Nelson, Jr., Aerodyne Research, Inc., USA For innovation in infrared spectroscopy and its application to environmental science, assessment and monitoring, and industrial process optimization and control.
	Miguel Orszag, Pontificia Univ. Catolica de Chile, Chile For a pioneering role in Latin-American quantum optics, studies of laser noise and cooperative effects, connection between entanglement and decoherence, and Dicke model’s properties.
	Tilman Pfau, Univ. Stuttgart, Germany For pioneering contributions to atom optics and cold quantum gases, especially for the realization of a chromium Bose-Einstein condensate, the first purely dipolar quantum gas.
	Yehiam Prior, Weizmann Inst. of Science, Israel For significant research contributions in nonlinear optics and coherent optical interactions and for service to the optical sciences community and to the OSA.
	John G. Rarity, Univ. of Bristol, UK For outstanding contributions in the field of experimental quantum cryptography and quantum optics.
	Pascal Salieres, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, France For contributions to high-harmonic and attosecond-pulse-generation physics through both experimental and theoretical studies of the highest quality.
	Kenneth J. Schafer, Louisiana State Univ., USA In recognition of many contributions to the advancement of the field of laser matter interactions through innovative, creative, and extensive theoretical studies of the highest quality.
	Lu J. Sham, Univ. of California San Diego, USA For contributions to the theory of the optical properties of crystalline solids and of solid-state quantum information processing.
	Francesco Simoni, Univ. Politecnica delle Marche, Italy For outstanding contributions in nonlinear optics of liquid crystals and its applications in optical storage.
	Henry I. Smith, Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, USA For contributions to optical nanolithography and nanophotonic systems.
	Alexei Vladimirovich Sokolov, Texas A&M Univ., USA For contributions to applications of molecular coherence to quantum optics and laser spectroscopy.
	Aephraim E. Steinberg, Univ. of Toronto, Canada For pioneering and theoretical contributions to quantum optics and information, particularly concerning tunneling times, quantum measurement, and the generation and characterization of entangled states.
	Albert Stolow, Natl. Research Council Canada, Canada For the application of ultrafast optical techniques to molecular dynamics and control, in particular, studies of molecules in strong laser fields and the development of new methods of optical quantum control.
	Andrei Tokmakoff, Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, USA For the development of two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy, its application to molecular liquids including hydrogen bonding dynamics in water, and its application to biological systems.
	Stefano Trillo, Univ. degli Studi di Ferrara, Italy For pioneering contributions in solitons, instabilities, and nonlinear waves in various systems.
	Alfred Vogel, Univ. zu Lüebeck, Germany For outstanding experimental and theoretical contributions to the understanding of the interactions of pulsed laser irradiation with cells and biological tissues.
	Stefan Wabnitz, Univ. degli Studi di Brescia, Italy For extensive and significant contributions to the field of nonlinear photonic devices and soliton communications.
	Ping-kong Alexander Wai, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Hong Kong For significant contributions to optical networks and to the understanding of optical transmission in fiber.
	Edward A. Watson, US Air Force Research Laboratory, Sensors Directorate, USA For outstanding contributions to optical phased-array beam steering, laser radar, and electronic imaging systems and exceptional service to OSA.
	Martin Wegener, Univ. Karlsruhe, Germany For seminal experimental contributions to the fields of three-dimensional photonic crystals and metamaterials and for service to OSA.
	Andrew G. White, Univ. of Queensland, Australia For seminal contributions to the fields of quantum optics and quantum information science, including both fundamental and methodological advances.
	Changde Xie, Shanxi Univ., China For seminal contributions to the study of quantum information processing and quantum measurements with continuous variables and for leadership in developing quantum optics in China.
	James M. Zavislan, Univ. of Rochester, USA For contributions to the design and development of optical instrumentation and their use in commercial and biomedical applications.
	John J. Zayhowski, MIT Lincoln Lab, USA For seminal contributions in miniature solid-state laser technology and laser applications and for pioneering work on microchip lasers.
	Xiang Zhang, Univ. of California Berkeley, USA For first ground-breaking demonstration of the optical superlens and hyperlens, seminal contributions to metamaterials science and nanophotonics, and pioneering work in plasmonic lithography.