Optica announces 2026 Fellows class.

Kaan Akşit
University College London, United Kingdom
For his pioneering achievements in the development of advanced 3D display systems and novel perceptually guided computer graphics techniques

 

Antonio Ambrosio
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
For contributions to near-field optical microscopy, structured light, and nanophotonics

 

Yasuhiro Awatsuji
Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan
For technical innovation in digital holography for high-speed and ultrafast imaging, and for research leadership

 

Andreas Beling
University of Virginia, United States
For contributions to high-power, high-speed photodetectors for analog optical links, microwave photonics, and photonic integrated circuits

 

Yusheng Bian
GlobalFoundries, United States
For transformative contributions to silicon photonics, including innovations that underpin high-volume manufacturing on a scalable CMOS-silicon photonics platform

 

Andrey Bogdanov
Qingdao Innovation and Development Center of Harbin Engineering University, China
For numerous pioneering contributions to the physics and applications of bound states in the continuum in resonant dielectric photonic structures

 

Enrique Castro-Camus
Centro de Investigaciones en Optica AC, Mexico
For novel applications of terahertz techniques in multiple fields, particularly medical diagnostics, plant biology, and cultural heritage conservation

 

Guo-En Chang
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
For technical innovation and seminal work in Si photonics, particularly his pioneering contributions in SiGeSn materials and photonic devices

 

Edoardo Charbon
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
For groundbreaking and pioneering contributions in the development of single photon avalanche diode cameras and sensors

 

Haoshuo Chen
Nokia Bell Labs, United States
For exceptional contributions in multimode and multicore communication technologies, and pioneering advances in cladding pumped optical amplifiers

 

Hsueh-Shih Chen
National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
For contributions to the development and commercialization of quantum dot materials, color conversion films of display backlighting, and electroluminescent panels

 

Lian-Kuan Chen
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
For outstanding advances to the research of optical wireless communications for indoor, underwater, and water-air channels

 

Pai-Yen Chen
University of Illinois Chicago, United States
For outstanding contributions to plasmonics in 2D materials and photonic metamaterials for nonlinear nanophotonics, light manipulation, and sensing applications

 

Gary J. Cheng
Purdue University, United States
For pioneering laser-induced, scalable, high-precision optical fabrication and transformation with cross-cutting advances in semiconductor, quantum, aerospace, and energy industries

 

Julian Zhishen Cheng
Great Bay University, Dongguan, China
For fundamental theoretical and practical contributions in optical wireless communications

 

Elbert E. M. Chia
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
For innovative ultrafast optical and terahertz spectroscopy studies of quantum and energy-related materials

 

Chih Wei Chu
Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
For advancing scalable, eco-friendly materials and device innovations enabling high-performance flexible photonic and electronic technologies

 

Matteo Clerici
Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Como, Italy
For pioneering experiments in the field of ultrafast and quantum optics in the infrared part of the spectrum

 

Dennis Couwenberg
Publishing Editor NANOPHOTONICS, Science Wise Publishing, Netherlands
For outstanding contributions to the worldwide optics community through creative leadership in scientific publishing and advocacy for diversity and inclusivity

 

Dominique M. Dagenais
National Science Foundation, United States
For nation-wide scientific leadership and professional service in photonics and optoelectronics

 

Mini Das
University of Houston, United States
For pioneering contributions to low-coherence X-ray phase retrieval, imaging system development, spectral X-ray computed tomography, and image perception

 

Guilhem de Valicourt
Ciena Corporation, United States
For substantial contributions to the development and commercialization of integrated-optics communication devices

 

John Delaney
National Gallery of Art, United States
For the development of hyperspectral imaging techniques to investigate, restore, and preserve historical artworks

 

Fei Ding
Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, China
For significant contributions to experimental nanophotonics, especially within the areas of broadband metamaterial absorbers, multifunctional/dynamic metasurfaces, and quantum metasurfaces

 

Jianji Dong
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
For pioneering work on integrated optics and photonic computing, particularly in the area of reconfigurable optical computing chips

 

John M. Doyle
Harvard University, United States
For developing pioneering methods enabling a broad range of spectroscopic studies, including cryogenic cooling of large molecules and radicals, novel probes of chirality, slow molecular beams, and laser cooling of large molecules

 

Lu FANG
Tsinghua University, China
For contributions to plenoptic imaging and integrated photonic neural computing

 

Ofer Firstenberg
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
For pioneering contributions to quantum nonlinear optics and for advancing optical quantum memories, synchronized photon sources, and long-lived spin-photon interfaces

 

David G. Fischer
NASA Glenn Research Center, United States
For foundational contributions to physical optics and space missions

 

Mable Fok
University of Georgia, United States
For seminal contributions to the adaptive and flexible use of fiber optics for soft material sensing and bioinspired microwave photonic systems

 

Hongyan Fu
Tsinghua University, China
For outstanding contributions to integrated photonics and their applications for communications and sensing, including optical wireless communications and LiDAR

 

Kelly Gaffney
PULSE Institute and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, United States
For ground-breaking contributions to the development of ultrafast x-ray methods and their use in the study of chemical and molecular dynamics

 

Patrice Genevet
Colorado School of Mines, United States
For advancing photonics with transformative metasurface innovations leading to breakthroughs in imaging, holography, and nanoscale light manipulation

 

Massimo Giudici
Université Côte d'Azur, France
For outstanding contributions in the experimental realization and analysis of nonlinear phenomena in semiconductor lasers and microcavities

 

Antoine Godard
ONERA, France
For outstanding research, technical, and program leadership in nonlinear optics for aerospace, including innovative applications of optical parametric oscillators for gas sensing

 

Tingyi Gu
University of Delaware, United States
For resolving material, nanofabrication, and systems challenges of silicon photonics with subwavelength design concepts and crystalline memory materials

 

Nathan Hagen
Utsunomiya University, Japan
For outstanding contributions to snapshot spectral and polarization imaging

 

Nicholas Harris
Lightmatter, United States
For transformative advances in programmable photonic integrated circuits and pioneering photonic AI acceleration technologies at the intersection of optics and machine learning

 

Mark A. Henesian
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Retired), Visiting Senior Scientist, United States
For pioneering advances in nonlinear optics, electro-optics, and modeling codes enabling modern, large aperture, high-energy laser architectures for inertial confinement fusion

 

Robert Herrick
Robert Herrick Consulting, United States
For advances in the reliability and failure analysis of semiconductor lasers and optoelectronics

 

Angela R. Hight Walker
National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST), United States
For pioneering application of Raman and photoluminescence spectroscopy to 2D materials such as graphene, transition-metal dichalcogenides, and hexagonal boron nitride

 

Anthony Hoffman
University of Notre Dame, United States
For pioneering contributions to mid-infrared optical metamaterials and sustained service to the photonics community

 

Lingling Huang
Beijing Institute of Technology, China
For significant contributions to multi-dimensional, large-capacity functional flat optics, especially metasurface wavefront engineering, holography, and optical encryption

 

Yen-Chieh Huang
National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
For pioneering contributions to laser-driven accelerator on a chip, quasi-phase-matching nonlinear optics, intense far-infrared laser sources, and LED-pumped lasers

 

Rongqing Hui
University of Kansas, United States
For outstanding and sustained contributions to the research and development of optical communication systems, devices, and optical measurement techniques

 

Gereon Hüttmann
University of Lübeck GmbH, Germany
For pioneering dynamic OCT and optoretinography, enabling functional retinal imaging at cellular resolution and advancing clinical optical diagnostics worldwide

 

Deep Jariwala
University of Pennsylvania, United States
For his important contributions to understanding light-matter interactions in quantum-confined materials and pioneering excitonic metamaterials

 

Rajan Jha
Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, India
For pioneering contributions to fiber photonics devices through development of fiber interferometers, micro-nano structures, plasmonics systems, and advancing sensing technology

 

Nicolas Joly
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen, Germany
For the invention of unique microstructured fibers, including gas- and plasma-filled fibers, with applications to supercontinuum generation and quantum phenomena

 

R. Jason Jones
University of Arizona, Wyant College of Optical Sciences, United States
For outstanding and sustained contributions to the development of novel frequency comb sources and applications including broadband high-resolution spectroscopy

 

Shumpei Kameyama
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan
For leadership in pioneering research and widespread application of fiber-based lidar instrumentation for sensing atmospheric wind and carbon dioxide

 

Alina Karabchevsky
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
For pioneering leadership and contributions to integrated photonics, nonlinear fiber systems, and optoelectronic computing for neuromorphic and quantum technologies

 

Donghyun Kim
Yonsei University, Republic of Korea
For outstanding contributions to nanoplasmonic and metastructure-based biosensing and imaging technologies, and international leadership in optical science outreach

 

Young L. Kim
Purdue University, United States
For pioneering discoveries of light localization in biological media and outstanding achievements in computational spectroscopy for public and global health

 

Kenneth L. Knappenberger, Jr.
Pennsylvania State University, United States
For pioneering contributions to metal nanocluster photonics and magneto-optics including superatom spin-polarized emission and state-resolved energy flow

 

Sanathana Konugolu Venkata Sekar
Tyndall National Institute, Ireland
For pioneering equitable biophotonics technologies, advancing optical health monitoring, driving global biophotonics standardization, and demonstrating impactful leadership in biophotonics entrepreneurship

 

Michael R. Krames
Opnovix Corp, United States
For pioneering contributions to high-efficiency visible spectrum light-emitting diodes and energy efficient solid-state lighting

 

Santosh Kumar
Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, India
For pioneering contributions to optical fiber-based plasmonics biosensors (WaveFlex Biosensors) for clinical applications

 

Matthew D. Lew
Washington University in St Louis, United States
For pioneering contributions to super-resolution microscopy, single-molecule imaging, and the development of innovative nanoscale sensing techniques

 

Peining Li
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
For pioneering contributions to near-field optics and polariton nanophotonics

 

Shien-Kuei Liaw
Taiwan Tech (NTUST), Taiwan
For brilliant contributions to optical communications, fiber-based devices, and fiber sensing, encompassing academic research and industrial applications

 

Chengbo Liu
Shenzhen Inst of Adv Technology, CAS, China
For his contribution to multi-contrast and multi-modality photoacoustic and fluorescence imaging

 

Jin Liu
Sun Yat-Sen University, China
For groundbreaking research on quantum light sources, orbital angular momentum generation, and dielectric metasurfaces

 

Andrew Lord
BT Research and Networks Strategy, United Kingdom
For sustained contributions, innovative research, and professional service to the field

 

Ruben S. Luis
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
For groundbreaking contributions to high-capacity fiber-optic transmission systems

 

Ming Ronnier Luo
Zhejiang University, China
For important contributions in the fields of colour, vision, and imaging science and engineering, and the establishment of international standards

 

Ren-Min Ma
Peking University, China
For his discovery of singular dispersion equation and pioneering contributions to nanolaser physics and devices

 

Yongfeng Mei
Fudan University, China
For pioneering contributions to three-dimensional nanomembrane photonic architectures and their applications in photonics and optoelectronics

 

Oleg Mitrofanov
University College London, United Kingdom
For pioneering and outstanding contributions to the field of terahertz photonics research, particularly in the development and application of terahertz near-field imaging

 

Omar F. Mohammed
King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, Saudi Arabia
For his exceptional leadership in materials engineering, and pioneering ultrafast imaging and spectroscopy, revealing key carrier dynamics in light-harvesting devices

 

Raul Muñoz
Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain
For pioneering contributions to the efficient orchestration of optical networking technologies

 

Jerome Neauport
CEA Cesta, France
For significant contributions to the development of optics for high-energy, high-intensity laser systems

 

Xingjie Ni
Pennsylvania State University, United States
For pioneering contributions to the areas of metasurfaces and nanophotonics

 

Ampalavanapilla Nirmalathas
University of Melbourne, Australia
For pioneering contributions to the design and demonstration of high-speed indoor optical wireless networks and enabling photonic technologies

 

Naveen Nishchal
Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India
For pioneering contributions in information optics and holography, including optical cryptography and structured light

 

Ioan Notingher
University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
For advances in optical spectroscopy for biomedical application, in particular Raman spectroscopy for cell imaging and tissue diagnostics

 

Yukihiro OZAKI
School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan
For a lifetime of research accomplishments and breakthroughs across broad areas of Raman, resonance Raman, near-infrared, surface-enhanced, vacuum ultraviolet, 2-dimensional correlation (2D-COS) spectroscopies, and chemometrics

 

Yasuyuki Ozeki
The University of Tokyo, Japan
For pioneering contributions to the development of high-speed molecular vibrational imaging

 

Xiaodan Pang
Zhejiang University, China
For seminal contributions to optical communications in free-space and optical fiber, and dedicated service to the optics and photonics community

 

Francesca Parmigiani
Microsoft Research Cambridge, United Kingdom
For her pioneering contributions to the field of high-speed optical communications and optical signal processing

 

Alexander Payne
Silicon Light Machines Inc., United States
For extraordinary contributions to the development of high speed, high optical power handling, MEMS spatial light modulators

 

David Piehler
Dell Technologies, United States
For profound technical contributions and leadership in optical access network technologies and their successful widespread commercialization

 

Nicola Pinna
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
For seminal contributions to photonics using nanomaterials with tunable optical, plasmonic, and luminescent properties via shape control, assembly, and doping

 

Francesco Poletti
University of Southampton and Microsoft Azure Fiber & AI, United Kingdom
For fundamental contributions to the advancement of hollow core fiber technology from design to fabrication

 

Manojit Pramanik
Iowa State University, United States
For outstanding contributions in the field of low-cost, compact photoacoustic computed tomography, photoacoustic image reconstruction, and contrast agent development

 

Niels Quack
Institut für Mikroelektronik Stuttgart, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
For pioneering contributions to photonic micro- and nanosystems

 

Aaswath P. Raman
University of California Los Angeles, United States
For pioneering contributions to radiative cooling and thermal photonics

 

Victor Reshetnyak
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine
For the pioneering work on photoalignment of liquid crystals and achievements in liquid-crystal lenses that led to widespread applications

 

Jacquiline Romero
University of Queensland, Australia
For her seminal contributions to quantum structured light and her pioneering role in promoting quantum science in the Philippines

 

Dibakar Roy Chowdhury
Anurag University, India
For innovations in passive and reconfigurable terahertz metamaterial devices and leadership in promoting terahertz activities in India

 

Thierry Ruchon
CEA, Université Paris-Saclay,  LIDYL, France
For pioneering discoveries on angular momentum transfer in high harmonic generation, bringing structured light into the attosecond science toolbox

 

Vladimir Serkin
Benemérita Univ Autonoma de Puebla, Mexico
For ground-breaking ideas and concepts in the field of ultrafast nonlinear optics and photonics, often far ahead of their time

 

Laura Sinclair
National Inst of Standards & Technology, United States
For pioneering femtosecond free-space time-transfer, enabling unprecedented precision in the comparison of optical clocks over hundreds of kilometers

 

Ravindra Sinha
Delhi Technological University, India
For outstanding leadership roles in spreading optics and photonics education and significant research contributions in photonic crystal and metamaterial-based devices

 

Brent C. Stuart
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States
For groundbreaking innovations in high-intensity laser design, modernization and operation of laser facilities, and exceptional contributions to short-pulse laser science and applications

 

Judith Su
Univ of Arizona, Coll of Opt Sciences, United States
For pioneering work on label-free optical biosensing for fundamental science, translational medicine, and environmental monitoring

 

Qizhen Sun
Huazhong Univ of Science and Technology, China
For pioneering and outstanding contributions in fiber-optic acoustic sensing and its applications in earth exploration and medical monitoring

 

Chuanshan Tian
Fudan University, China
For his transformative advancements in nonlinear spectroscopy and THz science, revolutionizing interfacial dynamics in complex materials

 

Zhen Tian
Tianjin University, China
For pioneering and transformative contributions to the advancement of terahertz photonics, and groundbreaking achievements in optoelectronic device technologies

 

Renu Tripathi
Delaware State University, United States
For significant contributions in research and development of atomic magnetometry, optical coherence tomography, optical pattern recognition, and photorefractive phenomena

 

Kevin Kin-Man Tsia
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
For pioneering contributions to high-speed optical microscopy and high-throughput imaging cytometry

 

Alfred U'Ren
Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares (UNAM), Mexico
For foundational contributions to spontaneous parametric down conversion, spontaneous four-wave mixing, applications of quantum optics, and outstanding service and leadership

 

Niklaus Ursus Wetter
Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares - IPEN / CNEN, Brazil
For technical innovation in high-efficiency lasers and leadership in experimental research

 

Oliver Wright
The University of Osaka, Japan
For pioneering innovations in optical instrumentation and ultrafast optoacoustics, advancing diagnostics, photonics theory, and commercial applications

 

Lin Wu
Singapore Univ. of Technology & Design, Singapore
For pioneering graphene-based plasmonic biosensors and quantum plasmonics, introducing plasma-inspired simulations that advanced quantum plasma modeling in solid-state systems

 

Peng Xi
Peking University, China
For outstanding work in optical super-resolution microscopy, including stimulated emission depletion, structured illumination microscopy, and dipole orientation imaging

 

Yanhong Xiao
Fudan University, China
For outstanding contributions to the development of quantum optics tools and quantum-enhanced sensors based on large ensembles of thermal atoms

 

He-Xiu Xu
Air Force Engineering University, China
For impressive breakthroughs in multiplexed metasurfaces for light/EM wave manipulations and their applications in photonic systems

 

Jian-Bin Xu
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
For outstanding and sustained contributions to two-dimensional materials in optoelectronics, photonics, plasmonics, and near-field radiative heat transfer

 

Peng Xue
CSRC, China
For outstanding contributions to experimental quantum optics, including photonic quantum walks for non-Hermitian optics, quantum foundations, and topological phenomena

 

Bo-Ru Yang
Sun Yat-Sen University, China
For his contributions to the advancement and educational dissemination of e-paper, flexible, wearable displays, and optics of these novel technologies

 

Ge Yang
North Carolina State University, United States
For pioneering contributions to photon detection research and education, advancing compound semiconductor radiation detectors, and sensor materials

 

You Yang
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
For pioneering and sustained contributions to multi-view computational imaging and multi-modality visual information processing

 

Xiaoke Yi
University of Sydney, Australia
For outstanding and sustained contributions in microwave photonic signal processing and sensing

 

Hin-Lap Yip
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
For pioneering contributions to advancing the field of printable photovoltaic technologies, including organic, perovskite, tandem, and transparent solar cells

 

Luqi Yuan
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
For his contributions in developing synthetic frequency dimension in photonics as a platform for explorations of topological and non-Hermitian optics

 

Yang Yue
Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
For pioneering contributions to optical orbital angular momentum communications and technology innovations in coherent pluggable optics

 

Jimin Zhao
Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
For groundbreaking innovation in high-pressure ultrafast spectroscopy and seminal contributions to the understanding of ultrafast light interaction with quantum materials

 

Bo Zhen
University of Pennsylvania, United States
For pioneering discoveries of topological phenomena in photonics and advancing understanding of light-matter interaction in nano-photonic systems

 

Qunbi Zhuge
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
For exceptional contributions to the research and development of high-capacity optical communication systems and intelligent optical networks

 

Xihua Zou
Southwest Jiaotong University, China
For pioneering contributions to photonics-powered microwave sensing and communications, and featured applications for high-speed railway systems