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03 June 2009
Theodore Maiman Student Paper Competition Winner Announced
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Theodore Maiman Student Paper Competition Winner Announced
Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics student recognized at CLEO/IQEC this week
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BALTIMORE, June 3—The OSA Foundation, HRL Laboratories LLC, the IEEE Photonics Society and the APS Division of Laser Science are pleased to announce Georg Anetsberger of the Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics in Germany as the winner of the first annual Theodore Maiman Student Paper Competition. Anetsberger was awarded top honors for his paper titled “Ultralow Dissipation Optomechanical Resonators on a Chip.” The grand prize and two honorable mentions were bestowed yesterday during the Conference on Lasers and Electro Optics/International Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/IQEC), taking place this week at the Baltimore Convention Center.
Anetsberger was one of 23 Maiman Student Paper semi-finalists that were selected from more than 920 student paper submissions. The papers were reviewed and scored by the CLEO/IQEC technical program committee and semi-finalists were selected based on standard CLEO/IQEC paper review criteria. The top three semi-finalists presented their research at CLEO/IQEC and were judged based on innovation, research excellence and presentation ability.
Honorable mentions went to:
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Jens Bethge, Max Born Institute, Germany
Paper: “A Chirped Photonic Crystal Fiber for High-Fidelity Guiding of Sub-100 fs Pulses”
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Jean-Michel Menard, University of Toronto, Canada
Paper: “Spin Hall Effect of Light in a Semiconductor”
The Maiman Student Paper Competition honors American physicist Theodore Maiman for his amazing invention, the first working laser, and his other outstanding contributions to optics and photonics. It recognizes student innovation and research excellence in the areas of laser technology and electro optics. The award is endowed by a grant from HRL Laboratories LLC, the IEEE Photonics Society and the APS Division of Laser Science and is administered by the OSA Foundation.
About the OSA Foundation
The OSA Foundation was established in 2002 to support philanthropic activities that help further the Optical Society's (OSA) mission by concentrating its efforts on programs that advance youth science education, provide optics and photonics education to underserved populations, provide career and professional development resources and support awards & honors that recognize technical and business excellence. The grants funded by the OSA Foundation are made possible by the generous donations of its supporters as well as the dollar-for-dollar match by OSA. The Foundation is exempt from U.S. federal income taxes under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and is a public charity. To learn more about the OSA Foundation or to find out how to donate, please visit www.osa-foundation.org or email foundation@osa.org.
About CLEO/IQEC
With a distinguished history as one of the industry’s leading events on laser science, the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the International Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/IQEC) is where laser technology was first introduced. CLEO/IQEC combines the strength of peer-reviewed scientific programming with an applications-focused exhibition to showcase the present and future of this technology. Sponsored by the American Physical Society’s (APS) Laser Science Division, the Institute of Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Photonics Society and the Optical Society (OSA), CLEO/IQEC provides an educational forum, complete with a dynamic Plenary, short courses, tutorials, workshops and more, on topics as diverse as its attendee base whose broad spectrum of interests range from biomedicine to defense to optical communications and beyond. For more information, visit the conference’s Web site at www.cleoconference.org.
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