Prism Awards open for entries

28 Jun 2010

SPIE invites photonics innovators to vie for 2010 Prism Awards.

Whether you're a core optics company like Hamamatsu, an internationally recognized corporation like National Semiconductor and Agilent Technologies, or a burgeoning business like Swamp Optics and Lightlab Imaging LLC, the 2010 Prism Awards seek to recognize your pioneering, innovative product.

Entries are being accepted now through 15 September for the Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation, an international competition to recognize photonics products that break conventional ideas, solve problems and improve life with photonics.

Entries will be judged by a distinguished panel of acknowledged technology experts in their respective fields. Award categories are:

defense and security
green photonics/energy efficiency
life sciences and biophotonics
information and communication
optics and optical components
scientific lasers
industrial lasers
other light sources
detectors, sensing, imaging and cameras
test, measurement, metrology
nanophotonics.

Winners will be announced at the Prism Awards Banquet at SPIE Photonics West in San Francisco, California, on Wednesday 26 January 2011.

Winners for 2009 by category and their products were:

Agilent Technologies, "analytical, test and measurement" (tie): scanning microwave microscopy
Lehighton Electronics, "analytical, test and measurement" (tie): 1605 Mobility Mapping Unit
InfraTec Infrared, "detectors, sensing and imaging": new MEMS tunable Fabry-Perot interferometer microspectrometer for infrared absorption spectroscopy
Laser Operations – QPC Lasers, "lasers": Brightlock Ultra-G
LightLab Imaging, "life sciences": C7-XR Optical Coherence Tomography System
Swamp Optics, "optics": BOA (Bother-free Optimized Arrangement) Pulse Compressor
Hamamatsu, "other light sources": 160 kV Open Type Microfocus X-ray Source
Linden Photonics, "photonics processes": strong tether fibre optic cable (STFOC)
IRphotonics, "photonics systems": iCure Thermal Spot Curing system
National Semiconductor, "sustainable/green technology": SolarMagic Power Optimizer.

The Prism Awards are sponsored by SPIE and Photonics Media. For more information, or to fill out an application, visit photonicsprismawards.com.