Anuradha Murthy Agarwal
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
For pioneering contributions to integrated mid-infrared photonic sensing, detection, imaging, and leadership in training the next generation in photonics manufacturing
 

Jeffery Allen
US Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
For pioneering contributions in extreme control, wave manipulation, and enhancement of light using metamaterials and plasmonics
 

Aram Amassian
North Carolina State University, USA
For outstanding and sustained contributions to the research and development of organic and hybrid optoelectronics, particularly the solution processing of semiconductors
 

Harry Atwater
California Institute of Technology, USA
For pioneering contributions that shaped the fields of plasmonics and nanophotonics

 

Toshihiko Baba
Yokohama National University, Japan
For pioneering contributions to photonic nanostructure devices

Andrew Berger
U of Rochester, The Institute of Optics, USA
For significant advances in using intrinsic optical contrast mechanisms to analyze untreated cells and tissues, either in living subjects or in laboratory
 

Rohit Bhargava
Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
For contributions to the fundamental physics and instrument engineering of mid-IR microscopy and its applications to medical imaging
 

Pierre-Alexandre Blanche
University of Arizona, USA
For contributions to the fields of diffractive optics and holography, particularly for holographic 3D displays and augmented reality combiners
 

Konstantin Y. Bliokh
RIKEN, Japan
For outstanding contribution to studies of spin-orbit interactions and angular momenta of light

 

Nicolas Bonod
CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université, Centrale Marseille, Institut Fresnel, France
For significant and pioneering contributions in diffractive optics, all-dielectric photonics, and resonant light scattering
 

Sophie Brasselet
Institut FRESNEL, CNRS, Aix Marseille Université, Centrale Marseille, France
For advancing fundamental knowledge of molecular nonlinear optics and application to polarization-resolved nonlinear and super resolution orientation microscopy
 

David Caplan
MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA
For pioneering contributions to high-sensitivity, multi-rate optical transceivers for terrestrial, near-Earth, and interplanetary laser communications
 

Maria Chekhova
Max-Planck-Inst for the Science of Light and Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
For pioneering contributions to the science and applications of photon pairs and twin beams

 

Feng Chen
Shandong University, China
For outstanding and sustained contributions to fabrication and applications of micro-/nano-photonic structures and devices by ultrafast-laser and ion beam writing
 

Jiajia Chen
Meta, USA and Chalmers Tekniska Högskola, Sweden
For pioneering contributions to optical network architecture design, in particular passive optical networks/interconnects for access, core, and datacenter networks
 

Xin Chen
Corning Incorporated, USA
For significant contributions to single mode fibers with low polarization mode dispersion, multimode fibers for datacenters, and specialty fibers
 

Ya Cheng
East China Normal University, China
For pioneering contributions to ultrafast nonlinear photonics

 

Oren Cohen
Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
For important contributions in nonlinear optics, including generation and applications of circularly-polarized high-order harmonics and observation of 3D spatio-temporal solitons
 

Christopher Cole
II-VI Incorporated, USA
For pioneering contributions to architectures, specifications, standardization, and product development of 10G, 40G, 100G, 200G and 400G optical interfaces
 

Kristan Corwin
National Inst of Standards & Technology and Kansas State University, USA
For pioneering research in gas-filled hollow fibers for lasers and frequency metrology, technical leadership, and service to the scientific community
 

Giuseppe D'Aguanno
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA
For significant and sustained contributions to the study of nonlinear optics in periodic nanostructures, metamaterials, and microresonators
 

Daoxin Dai
Zhejiang University, China
For significant contributions to advanced passive silicon photonic devices

 

Qing Dai
National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China
For pioneering contributions to confining and manipulating light at the nanoscale and the development of plasmon-enhanced infrared spectroscopy
 

Aurelien David
Google, USA
For pioneering contributions to the physics and architectures of extremely efficient spectrally engineered light-emitting-diode illumination sources
 

Professor Rob Eason
Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, UK
For pioneering work focused on how to control matter with light

 

Julie Sheridan Eng
II-VI Incorporated, USA
For contributions in technology development and productization of fiber optic transceivers and 3D sensing VCSELs
 

Dirk Englund
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
For pioneering contributions to quantum photonics and integrated photonics for applications in optical computing
 

Baris I. Erkmen
X, the moonshot factory, USA
For contributions to the advancement of wireless optical communication systems in performance, technology maturity, large-scale manufacturability, and cost
 

Robert Fedosejevs
University of Alberta, Canada
For outstanding and sustained contributions to the understanding of laser-plasma interactions, laser applications, and material interactions, and leadership in photonics
 

Vincenzo Galdi
University of Sannio, Italy
For outstanding and sustained contributions to modeling wave interaction with artificially engineered materials, including nonlocal, non-Hermitian, Multiphysics, and time-varying scenarios
 

Kenneth A. Goldberg
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
For seminal contributions to the development of x-ray optics for applications requiring coherent light

 

Juliet Gopinath
University of Colorado Boulder, USA
For pioneering contributions to nonlinear optics of nanophotonic devices and semiconductor lasers, and to the physics and applications of orbital angular momentum in optical fibers
 

Daniel X. Hammer
Food and Drug Administration, USA
For outstanding contributions in the development, translation, and clinical application of biomedical imaging systems
 

Michael Hochberg
Elenion Technologies LLC, USA
For pioneering work in silicon photonics technology and its transition to commercialization

 

Gloria E. Hoefler
Infinera Corporation, USA
For outstanding and sustained contributions in the field of active integrated photonics by realizing devices, subsystems, systems, and networks
 

Steve Hranilovic
McMaster University, Canada
For contributions to the theory, modeling, and design of optical wireless communication systems

 

Juejun Hu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
For original and innovative contributions to integrated photonics

 

Zubin Jacob
Purdue University, USA
For pioneering theory-driven experiments in the areas of thermal photonics and nanophotonic metamaterials

 

Richard Jensen
Huber+Suhner Polatis Photonics, USA
For outstanding contributions in research and development in both undersea optical communications and optical switching technologies and applications
 

Zhensheng Jia
CableLabs, USA
For outstanding contributions to the development of interoperable coherent optical systems and fiber-wireless converged technologies for broadband access networks
 

Cherie Kagan
USA
For outstanding contributions to low-dimensional, colloidal nanocrystals and layered organic-inorganic perovskites, and to their integration in optical and optoelectronic devices
 

Thomas Katsouleas
University of Connecticut, USA
For lifetime scholarly contributions to the field of laser plasma science and for global leadership in engineering education
 

Antonio Zelaquett-Khoury
Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
For ground-breaking work on structured quantum light and applications to classical optics of quantum information concepts including state non-separability
 

Alexander V. Kildishev
Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University, USA
For outstanding contributions to the theoretical concepts and advanced numerical modeling of optical engineered materials and metasurfaces

Yoon-Ho Kim
Pohang Univ of Science & Technology, Republic of Korea
For significant scientific contributions in quantum optics on fundamental studies and applications of weak quantum measurement toward quantum information technology
 

Lionel Kimerling
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
For pioneering contributions to silicon photonics

 

Femius Koenderink
AMOLF, Netherlands
For fundamental contributions to subwavelength resonant nanophotonics to control scattering, emission, and amplification of light at the nanometer scale
 

Steven Koester
University of Minnesota, USA
For technical innovations in emerging optoelectronic devices, particularly those involving group-IV and 2D-material-based photodetectors and optical modulators
 

Toshiaki Koike-Akino
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA
For outstanding and innovative contributions to R&D in enabling technologies for optical communications, including nonlinear equalizers, high-dimensional modulations, and FEC
 

Sunao Kurimura
National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
For outstanding contributions to quasi phase matching nonlinear optical devices

 

Irina V. Larina
Baylor College of Medicine, USA
For the development of novel imaging instruments for biomedical applications across multiple scales, and for service to the community
 

Gang Li
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
For seminal and sustained contributions to the research and development of organic solar cells and perovskite solar cells
 

Mo Li
University of Washington, Seattle, USA
For seminal contributions to optomechanics, integrated acousto-optics, and nanophotonics

 

Xiaoqin Elaine Li
University of Texas at Austin, USA
For development and application of new optical spectroscopy methods for the study of fundamental physics of new and novel materials
 

Marco Liscidini
Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy
For the study of classical and quantum nonlinear optics in integrated devices, nonclassical light, and field excitations in photonic crystals
 

Renbao Liu
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
For original contributions to nonlinear and quantum optics and their applications in quantum information technologies
 

Weiwei Liu
Nankai University, China
For leadership in modernizing optical education and popularizing optical science, engineering, and applications to the public
 

Peter Lodahl
Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
For development of photonic hardware based on quantum dots in nanophotonic structures and its applications to quantum communication and simulations
 

Dr. Zhenguo Lu
Advanced Electronics and Photonics Research Centre, National Research Council Canada, Canada
For pioneering contributions to quantum dot semiconductor lasers and their applications in optical communications and wireless networks
 

Onofrio M. Maragò
Istituto per i Processi Chimico Fisici-CNR, Italy
For groundbreaking contributions to optical trapping and optical manipulation of atoms and particles

 

David Marpaung
University of Twente, the Netherlands
For pioneering contributions to the research and development of integrated microwave photonic devices and systems
 

Florian Marquardt
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light and Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
For pioneering fundamental contributions to the theory of cavity optomechanics

 

Murukeshan Vadakke Matham
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
For pioneering contributions to optical imaging and instrumentation from micro to nanoscale

 

Shinji Matsuo
NTT Device Technology Labs, Japan
For pioneering contributions to ultra-high-speed and low-power-consumption membrane lasers

 

Igor Meglinski
Aston University, UK
For pioneering innovations and sustained contributions to the studies of coherent polarized light with applications in biomedical optics and imaging
 

Terrence Meyer
Purdue University, USA
For outstanding contributions in ultrafast coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering and creative developments in pulse burst laser technology and its applications
 

Arnan Mitchell
RMIT University, Australia
For outstanding and sustained contributions to integrated photonics research, particularly in the lithium niobate platform
 

Takanori Nomura
Wakayama University, Japan
For pioneering leadership in digital holography, phase imaging, and optical security, and for dedicated leadership in international optics community
 

Paulo Nussenzveig
Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
For ground-breaking demonstrations of multipartite multi-color entanglement of light in above-threshold optical parametric oscillators
 

Sang-Hyun Oh
University of Minnesota Twin Cities, USA
For outstanding contributions to the development of fabrication techniques for nanophotonics, of nanophotonic biosensors, and of ultrastrong light-matter interactions
 

Yasutake Ohishi
Toyota Technological Institute, Japan
For outstanding contributions to the research on fiber amplifiers and nonlinear optics based upon optical fibers with specialty glasses
 

Dan Oron
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
For contributions to nonlinear microscopy techniques, quantum imaging, colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals, and biogenic optical systems
 

Sahin K. Ozdemir
Pennsylvania State University, USA
For seminal contributions to the fundamental understanding and applications of non-Hermitian photonics and optomechanics and quantum information sciences
 

Jae-Hyeung Park
Inha University, Republic of Korea
For outstanding contributions in 3D information processing and display technology based on integral imaging and holography
 

Marco Peccianti
Emergent Photonics Lab, University of Sussex, UK
For sustained pioneering contributions to the field of optical complexity and the development of novel terahertz applications based on ultrafast nonlinear photonics
 

Michael Pircher
Medical University of Vienna, Austria
For outstanding contributions to ocular imaging and development of advanced optical coherence tomography methods
 

Rick Plympton
Optimax Systems Inc, USA
For innovative and outstanding business leadership and service to the Society

 

Dario Polli
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
For pioneering contributions to ultrafast spectroscopy and nonlinear label-free microscopy

 

Andrew Wing On Poon
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
For outstanding and sustained contributions to microcavity optics and photonics and their applications in silicon photonics
 

Rohit Prasankumar
Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
For significant contributions to understanding ultrafast phenomena in quantum materials, particularly strongly correlated electron systems, semiconductor nanostructures, and topological materials
 

Franklyn Quinlan
National Inst of Standards & Technology, USA
For contributions to optical-to-electrical conversion of ultrashort pulses leading to high-fidelity transfer of optical clock stability to the microwave domain
 

Aleksandra Radenovic
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
For outstanding and sustained contributions to the research and development of superresolution microscopy, including development of open-source image processing tools
 

Stefania Residori
HOASYS SAS, France
For outstanding contributions to nonlinear optics and nonlinear dynamics of liquid crystals, and for applications to vortex generations and slow light holographic interferometry
 

Erich Rohwer
University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
For leadership and service to African photonics spanning more than 30 years, resulting in the establishment of new photonics centres
 

Sylvie Roke
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
For pioneering contributions to the theory and practice of nonlinear light scattering and imaging technologies that enable molecular level studies of complex aqueous solutions
 

Claus Ropers
Max Planck Institute for biophysical Chemistry, Germany
For harnessing ultrafast light-matter interactions for control of electronic dynamics in nanostructures, solids, and surfaces
 

Jyrki Saarinen
Institute of Photonics, University of Eastern Finland, Finland
For technical innovation and leadership in entrepreneurship, commercialization, and strategic developments in photonics businesses
 

Clara Saraceno
Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
For seminal contributions to ultrafast science and technology, as well as outstanding service to the optics community
 

Thomas R. Schibli
University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
For contributions to the fields of ultralow timing jitter solid-state lasers, combs, and measurement techniques

 

Chester C.T. Shu
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
For seminal contributions to effective control and processing of optical signals in communications

 

Hannah E. Smithson
University of Oxford, UK
For fundamental advances in our understanding of human color vision, including mechanisms of image formation, transduction, adaptation, and constancy
 

Volker J. Sorger
George Washington University and Optelligence Company, USA
For outstanding innovations in the research and development of opto-electronic and nanophotonic devices, and for community leadership
 

Emmanuel Stratakis
Institute of Electronic Structure & Laser, Foundation for Research & Technology Hellas, Greece
For outstanding achievements and excellent leadership in both basic research and technology translation to industry applications for laser matter interactions in micro/nanoscale
 

Tze Chien Sum
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
For pioneering contributions to the development of halide perovskite materials for photovoltaics, lasers, LEDs, spintronics, and spectroscopy
 

Han Henry Sun
Infinera Corporation, Canada
For contributions to high-speed coherent DSP modem and FEC development for optical communications

 

Jiang Tang
Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics & School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
For outstanding contributions to advanced optical materials and optoelectronic devices, particularly antimony selenide thin film solar cells and halide perovskites

Ryohei Urata
Google LLC, USA
For significant contributions to the development and application of optical technologies for data communication networks
 

Hakan Ürey
Koç Üniversitesi, Turkey
For outstanding contributions to the research, development, and commercialization of optical display and imaging technologies
 

Kathleen M. Vaeth
OLEDWorks LLC, USA
For key contributions to industrial R&D and business development in industrial imaging, OLED technologies, MEMS, and organic lasers
 

Jun Shan Wey
Verizon Communications Inc, USA
For sustained professional leadership in optical access networks standardization and outstanding volunteer service to the field
 

Kurt Bernardo Wolf
Instituto de Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca campus, Mexico
For outstanding and numerous contributions to mathematical optics, including signal analysis, by employing symmetry methods known as group theory
 

Fengnian Xia
Yale University, USA
For groundbreaking contributions to two-dimensional material photonics and significant achievements in silicon photonics
 

Nanfang Yu
Columbia University, USA
For the invention and development of metasurfaces and their application to imaging and cooling

 

Denise Maria Zezell
Nuclear and Energy Research institute, IPEN - CNEN, São Paulo, Brazil
For significant contributions to photonics education, specifically in laser dentistry, and pioneering biophotonics research in Brazil
 

Shulian Zhang
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
For pioneering work in orthogonally polarized dual-frequency lasers and a series of precision measuring instruments
 

Jia Zhu
Nanjing University, China
For outstanding contributions to plasmonic materials and devices and innovative research in solar energy conversion