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 Innovation Awards Program allows CLEO exhibitors the chance to showcase their latest products and services entering the marketplace. The exhibiting company that submits the winning presentation has the the opportunity to reach the top industry decision makers in attendance at the premier laser conference. The award also offers this exhibitor with a unique promotional opportunity with PhAST's partnership with 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

Be sure to attend the Award Presentation at the Plenary Session on Monday, May 5, 6:00 p.m. in the San Jose Civic Auditorium at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center.

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.

The Innovations Awards Program is sponsored by: