PhAST/Laser Focus World Innovation Awards Program

2009 Innovation Award Winners

The PhAST co-sponsors, APS, IEEE Photonics Society (formerly LEOS) and OSA, and Laser Focus World congratulate BioPhotonic Solutions Inc., on becoming the recipient of the 2009 PhAST/Laser Focus World Innovation Award.

WINNER

BioPhotonic Solutions Inc.
Booth 1232

Ultrafast Lasers Get in Shape with femtoFit™
For the development of a low-cost, compact, commercial pulse shaper that unlocks the
power of ultrafast lasers for industrial, scientific, medical, and defense applications

 

HONORABLE MENTIONS

IPG Photonics Corp. Booth 1217 YLS-5000-SM, 5 kilowatt Single-Mode Industrial Fiber Laser For the introduction of the brightest turn-key fiber laser with near-diffraction-limited beam quality for materials processing and directed energy applications	Kapteyn-Murnane Laboratories Booth 1437 Coherent Soft X-Ray Generation for Lithography and Ultra High-Resolution 3-D Imaging For the XUUS tabletop extreme ultraviolet (EUV) source that converts the output of an ultrafast amplifier into the EUV wavelength region for applications in nanoscale science, lithography, 3-D imaging, and molecular dynamics
Orbits Lightwave, Inc. Booth 1457 Slow Light Laser Oscillator For the creation of an all-fiber oscillator that uses slow light to achieve extremely narrow linewidth and negligible noise for coherent communications, sensing, and research	TOPTICA Photonics AG Booth 1421 iChrome – Ultra-Wide Tunable Visible Laser for Biophotonic Application and Optical Metrology For the development of a user-friendly, widely tunable visible fiber laser for fluorophore excitation and other applications in microscopy and spectroscopy

Read the CLEO/IQEC and PhAST press release on the 2009 Innovation Awards. See the list of 2008 winners.

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

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