Maiman Student Paper Competition
This competition was established in 2008 in memory of Theodore Maiman and in acknowledgement of his amazing invention, the first working laser, and his other outstanding contributions to optics and photonics. The program recognizes student innovation, research excellence and presentation skills in the areas of laser technology and electro-optics, and is endowed by HRL Laboratories, LLC, IEEE Photonics Society and APS Division of Laser Science.
Papers submitted to CLEO during the regular “call for papers” are eligible for entry. Students must opt-in to the competition during the submissions process.
The finalists will present their papers to a panel of judges in a private session during the conference. The top prize winner receives $3,000 USD, two honorable mention recipients each receive a certificate. The results will be announced during the Plenary Session and the OSA Foundation Luncheon.
Criteria for eligibility
All the following criteria must be met:
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Submitting author must opt-in to the competition during the regular submission process and follow all the instructions provided on the submission site.
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The presenting author must be an undergraduate or graduate student of an educational institution of collegiate grade who is devoting more than half-time to studies within the institution, at the time the paper was written.
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The paper must be submitted and accepted during the regular “call for papers” process (Note: Postdeadline Papers are not part of this competition).
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Student must present the paper during CLEO.
Selection process:
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All properly submitted papers are reviewed and scored according to standard CLEO Technical Program Committee review criteria.
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The highest scoring student papers from each submission category (currently, there are [27] twenty-seven categories) will be considered semi-finalists.
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The Maiman Student Paper Award Review Committee will review all semi-finalists and select three – five finalists.
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Each finalist will present their paper to the Review Committee in a private session, and be judged on innovation, research excellence and presentation skills.
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The top prize winner receives $3,000 USD, two honorable mention recipients each receive a certificate.
Submit a paper to CLEO!
2013 Finalists
Jeffrey Demas
Two Octaves of Frequency Generation by Cascaded Intermodal Nonlinear Mixing in Solid Optical Fiber
Boston University, United States
Peter Krogen
Octave-spanning Coherent Mid-IR Generation via a Single Adiabatically Chirped Grating
MIT, United States
Gary Shambat
Single-cell photonic nanocavity probes
Stanford University, United States
2013 Semi-Finalists
Michael Geiselmann
3D Optical Manipulation of a Single Electron Spin
Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Spain
Patrick Gregg
Stable Transmission of 12 OAM States in Air-Core Fiber
Boston University, United States
Chong Hou
Zinc Selenide Synthesis in Fiber Draw
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Takuro Ideguchi
Coherent anti-Stokes Raman dual-comb spectro-microscopy
Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics, Germany
Jonghwan Kim
Electrical Control of Optical Plasmon Resonance with Graphene
UC Berkeley, United States
Khan Lim
Broadband THz detection in the counter-propagating configuration using THz-enhanced plasma fluorescence
CREOL - University of Central Florida, United States
Pavel Malevich
High Energy and Average Power Femtosecond Laser for Pumping mid-IR OPAs
Technische Universität Wien, Austria
Onur Mudanyali
High-throughput Imaging of Single Viruses using Self-assembled Nano-lenses and On-Chip Holography
University of California, Los Angeles United States
Ryan Murphy
The Role of Surface Plasmon Polariton Excitation in Laser Induced Periodic Structure Formation After Single-Shot Ultrafast Irradiation of Au Microstructures
University of Michigan, United States
Michael Porer
A Multi-Terahertz View of Ultrafast Charge Density Wave Dynamics in TiSe2
University of Regensburg, Germany
Allison Schaap
Fabrication of Topologically-Complex 3D Microstructures by Femtosecond Laser Machining and Polymer Molding
Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Robert Schrobenhauser
Detection of the Mass of Particles in Air in an Optical Sensor utilizing Laser Beam Divergence and inertia-dependent Particle Trajectories
Technical University of Munich, Germany
Mikhail Shalaginov
Broadband enhancement of spontaneous emission from nitrogen-vacancy centers in nanodiamonds by hyperbolic metamaterials
Purdue University, United States
Abirami Sivananthan
Integrated Linewidth Reduction of a Tunable SG-DBR Laser
University of California at Santa Barbara, United States
Michael Sprague
Storage of Light in a Hollow-Core Photonic-Crystal Fibre
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Burak Guzelturk
Excitonically driven quantum dot light-emitting diodes: exLEDs
Bilkent University, Turkey
Myoung-Gyun Suh
Stablization of fiber lasers using chip-based high-Q optical resonators
California Institute of Technology, United States
Jie Sun
Large-Scale Optical Phased Arrays Enabled by Silicon Photonics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Martin Wimmer
Experimental Observation of Discrete Solitons in a Temporal Photonic Lattice
University of Erlangen Nuremberg, Germany
Ben Wu
Two Dimensional Encrypted Optical Steganography Based on Amplified Spontaneous Emission Noise
Princeton University, United States
Bo Xiao
Room Temperature Polariton Lasing from GaN Nanowire Array in a Dielectric Microcavity
University of Michigan, United States