OSA Fellows
OSA members who have served with distinction in the advancement of optics may be proposed for election to the class of Fellow. This honor is reserved to no more than 10% of the total membership.
Sixty-six members were elected as Fellow Members in October 2011. See the list of 2012 Fellow Members.
The next deadline for nominations is 15 June 2012. More information is available from the OSA Awards Office (email awards@osa.org or telephone +1 202.416.1960).
Sixteen new OSA Fellows were recognized during the Plenary Session at CLEO/QELS: 2010 in San Jose, CA, USA.
From left to right: Timothy J. Carrig, Lockheed Martin Coherent Technologies, USA; Anderson S.L. Gomes, Univ. Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil; Qihuang Gong, Peking Univ., China; Jin Ung Kang, Johns Hopkins Univ., USA; Laurens (Kobus) Kuipers, AMOLF, The Netherlands; Walter Margulis, Acreo AB, Sweden; André Mysyrowicz, École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées, France; Johan Nilsson, Univ. of Southampton, UK; Bishnu P. Pal, Indian Inst. of Technology, India; Gregory J. Quarles, VLOC Inc., USA; Siddharth Ramachandran, Boston Univ., USA; Narsingh Bahadur Singh, Northrop Grumman Corp., USA; OSA President James P. Wyant; Igor Smolyaninov, BAE Systems, USA; Richard L. Sutherland, SAIC, USA; Takunori Taira, Inst. for Molecular Science, Japan; Ulrike K. Woggon, Technische Univ. Berlin, Germany.