SPIE and supporting organizations recognize contributions that have been made by experts and honors their accomplishments with the following prestigious awards.
Thank you to the chairs for selecting these winners and recognizing the brilliance of each researcher's work.
| Award | Award winner name | Paper number |
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The Alexander Glass Best Oral Presentation Award |
S. Roger Qiu, Lawrence Livermore National Labs. (United States) | 12300-28 |
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The Arthur Guenther Best Poster Award |
Christian Mühlig, Fraunhofer-Institut für Angewandte Optik und Feinmechanik IOF (Germany) | 12300-50 |
| The MJ Soileau Best Student Paper Award Experimental investigations of femotsecond and laser-induced damage on multi-layer mirrors |
Mohamed Yaseen Noor, The Ohio State Univ. (United States) | 12300-27 |
Explanation of annual awards for Laser Damage
Each year, in honor of the symposium's founding organizers and key chairs, one presentation is selected in each of three categories — oral, poster, and student presentation — by conference co-chairs on the basis of scientific excellence and quality of presentation. These include:
The Alexander Glass Best Oral Presentation Award
1st place best oral presentation, $500 and honorary award
The Arthur Guenther Best Poster Award
1st place best poster presentation, $500 and honorary award
The MJ Soileau Best Student Paper Award
1st place best student presentation, $500 and honorary award
Awards are announced during the call for papers for the next year's symposium, meaning, winners from the 2023 program will be announced in spring 2024.
Winners are recognized at the opening ceremony of the upcoming Laser Damage Symposium. Winners are also honored with an engraved trophy and a small monetary honorarium.
Recipient selection
The SPIE Laser Damage Symposium student papers and posters will be assessed and awarded by symposium chairs. Contributions will be judged for technical merit, relevance of the topic to the industry, and the author’s ability to explain the work.
The annual Best Oral Presentation and the Best Poster Award were renamed in 2016 to honor the founding organizers for this meeting, Alexander J. Glass and Arthur H. Guenther. In 2017, The MJ Soileau Best Student Paper Award was added to the annual awards.
These awards are intended to foster participation and advance the research in laser-induced damage, development of materials for high power lasers, and associated technologies, and will provide some financial assistance to researchers, engineers, and students involved in the laser damage community.
The awards are supported and approved by the Laser Damage co-chairs, with funds matched by SPIE.