This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20240110537408\/en\/<\/a><\/p>\n Akhlesh Lakhtakia, the 2024 recipient of the SPIE Gold Medal. (Photo: Business Wire)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SPIE Gold Medal: Akhlesh Lakhtakia <\/b> SPIE President’s Award: Katie Schwertz <\/b> SPIE Directors’ Award: Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop <\/b> SPIE Mozi Award: Andrea Al\u00f9 <\/b> SPIE Mozi Award: Teri W. Odom <\/b> SPIE Britton Chance Award in Biomedical Optics: Gerard L. Cot\u00e9 <\/b> SPIE Biophotonics Technology Innovator Award: Ji-Xin Cheng <\/b> SPIE Rudolf and Hilda Kingslake Award in Optical Design: David Shafer <\/b> SPIE Harrison H. Barrett Award in Medical Imaging: Kyle J. Myers <\/b> SPIE Harold E. Edgerton Award in High-Speed Optics: Clara Saraceno <\/b> SPIE Dennis Gabor Award in Diffractive Optics: J\u00fcrgen Czarske <\/b> SPIE A.E. Conrady Award in Optical Engineering: Thomas U. Kampe <\/b> SPIE G. G. Stokes Award in Optical Polarization: Curtis R. Menyuk <\/b> SPIE Chandra S. Vikram Award in Optical Metrology: Anand Asundi <\/b> SPIE Frits Zernike Award for Microlithography: Richard Sandstrom <\/b> SPIE Diversity Outreach Award: Preeti Jagadev <\/b> SPIE Maria Goeppert Mayer Award in Photonics: Iam-Choon Khoo <\/b> SPIE Maiman Laser Award: Anne L\u2019Huillier <\/b> SPIE Mar\u00eda J. Yzuel Educator Award: Mary G. Turner <\/b> SPIE Aden and Marjorie Meinel Technology Achievement Award: M. Saif Islam <\/b> The complete listing of the SPIE Society Awards and recipients is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n About SPIE<\/b><\/p>\n SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, brings engineers, scientists, students, and business professionals together to advance light-based science and technology. The Society, founded in 1955, connects and engages with our global constituency through industry-leading conferences and exhibitions; publications of conference proceedings, books, and journals in the SPIE Digital Library; and career-building opportunities. Over the past five years, SPIE has contributed more than $24 million to the international optics community through our advocacy and support, including scholarships, educational resources, travel grants, endowed gifts, and public-policy development. www.spie.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n View source version on businesswire.com: https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20240110537408\/en\/<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Akhlesh](\"https:\/\/mms.businesswire.com\/media\/20240110537408\/en\/1995509\/4\/Akhlesh-Lakhtakia-920x450.jpg\")
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\nFor pioneering research on electromagnetic fields in complex materials including isotropic chiral, bianisotropic, and composite materials, metamaterials, and nanomaterials.<\/p>\n
\nFor outstanding service to SPIE and the optics community, through work that advances optical systems design, engages students, and shares the excitement of optics with the public.<\/p>\n
\nFor pioneering research in optics and photonics, and for distinguished service to SPIE as a leading light in promoting educational programs and supporting women in science.<\/p>\n
\nFor seminal contributions to the field of optical metamaterials as well as their applications for wavefront manipulation and enhancement of nonreciprocal and nonlinear phenomena.<\/p>\n
\nFor significant contributions to the field of nanophotonics and to the development of moir\u00e9 photonics.<\/p>\n
\nFor transformative advances in both fundamental and translational optical research toward the diagnosis and monitoring of chronic and infectious diseases.<\/p>\n
\nFor the invention and commercialization of mid-infrared photothermal microscopy that allows highly sensitive dye-free bond-selective imaging of living cells and organisms.<\/p>\n
\nFor outstanding contributions to the field of optical design including DUV and EUV photolithographic scanner designs that define the current technological limit of the semiconductor industry.<\/p>\n
\nFor fundamental contributions to the field of image science, with an emphasis on the role of science in regulatory evaluations of imaging methods.<\/p>\n
\nFor groundbreaking contributions to the development of ultrafast high-power lasers and laser-driven THz sources.<\/p>\n
\nFor significant contributions to the development of digital holography, and related techniques for biomedicine, fiber communication, imaging, information processing, and laser metrology.<\/p>\n
\nFor industry-recognized leadership in optical engineering, design, and development \u2013 including critical Earth-monitoring instruments \u2013 as well as for mentoring the next generation of optical engineers.<\/p>\n
\nFor pioneering studies of linear and nonlinear polarization effects in guided-wave photonics which have impacted basic science, telecommunications systems, lasers, and many other photonics-based technologies.<\/p>\n
\nFor numerous contributions to coherent optical metrology and sensing, with special attention to digital technologies.<\/p>\n
\nFor leadership in the development of lithographic-grade lasers and EUV light sources.<\/p>\n
\nFor excellence in promoting and advocating diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM.<\/p>\n
\nFor foundational contributions to linear and nonlinear optical properties of liquid crystals and their applications in wide-ranging, wave-mixing, and self-action effects.<\/p>\n
\nFor the discovery of high harmonic generation in gases, and contributions to developments in attoscience.<\/p>\n
\nFor a lifetime of dedication to the teaching of optical design, and for services to the optics community.<\/p>\n
\nFor highly impactful innovations in ultra-fast and highly efficient photodetectors enabled by photon-trapping structures.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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