2008 Innovation Award Winners

New! View a video recap of the awards ceremony and on-site interviews with the winners at CLEO/QELS and PhAST from Laser Focus World.

The PhAST co-sponsors, APS, IEEE/LEOS and OSA, and Laser Focus World congratulate Coherent, Inc., on becoming the recipient of the 2008 PhAST/Laser Focus World Innovation Award.

WINNER

Coherent, Inc.
Booth 1714

OPSL-577-3
For its twin embodiment of technical and application innovation in exploiting the wavelength and
power scalability of optically pumped semiconductor laser (OPSL) technology

HONORABLE MENTIONS

Amplitude Systemes Booth 1543 TANGERINE: 20W High Energy Diode-Pumped Ultrafast Fiber Amplifier For the introduction of a unique ultrafast fiber amplifier, offering both a high energy level and a high average power.	ColdQuanta, Inc. Booth 1531 The RuBECi Ultracold Matter Cell For the development of the industry’s first commercial instrument designed to enable the production of Bose-Einstein Condensates (BECs) and related forms of ultracold matter. .
Edmund Optics, Inc. Booth 1824 Low-cost, Color Corrected Aspheres For presenting the industry’s first color-corrected aspherical components.	Holochip Corp. Booth 1940 Adaptive Polymer Lens: APL™-1050 For introducing an adaptive polymer, singlet fluidic lens with a variable focal length.
Picometrix, LLC Booth 1944 T-Ray™ 4000 Time Domain Terahertz Product Platform For creating a transportable terahertz system that is precise enough for manufacturing, process control or data collection.

Read the CLEO/QELS and PhAST press release on the 2008 Innovation Awards.

Congratulations to all the winners! For more information on this program or any of the entries, contact custserv@osa.org.

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