BELLINGHAM, Wash., and PITTSFIELD, Mass., Nov. 22, 2017 — The world’s smallest FT-IR spectrometer, a lidar system for autonomous vehicles, and a smartphone add-on sensor for noncontact bioimaging — these products are among 30 finalists vying for Prism Awards in January. Marking its 10th year in 2018, the Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation program recognizes the industry’s top innovators and groundbreaking technology.
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The 2018 Prism Awards honor the photonics industry’s top innovators, products and technology.
The awards are co-sponsored annually by SPIE and Photonics Media. Winners will be announced during the awards gala on Jan. 31, 2018, in San Francisco.
“Ten years in, the Prism Awards are casting an even wider light on the photonics industry. Each year, categories for the awards are driven by the innovations entered, providing direct insight into thriving and emerging ‘hot’ markets,” said SPIE CEO Eugene Arthurs. “Significantly, this year there are 10, rather than the usual nine. Biomedical entries are featured in two categories — Life Science Instrumentation, and Medical Diagnostics and Therapeutics — illustrating the vitality of that field. Also new this year are categories for inventions in Environmental Monitoring and for Illumination and Light Sources — very timely, as the world continues to work toward more sustainable energy sources and devices.”
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The 2017 winners and event sponsors, Photonics Media and SPIE.
Full details about all of the finalists and their award-nominated products will be featured in the upcoming January 2018 issue of Photonics Spectra. More information can also be found at www.photonicsprismaward.com.
The 2018 Prism Awards finalists, by category:
Detectors and Sensors
NKT Photonics (Birkerød, Denmark)
LIOS EN.SURE DTS & RTTR
Princeton Infrared Technologies (New Jersey, U.S.)
LineCam12
Xenics NV (Leuven, Belgium)
XLIN FC 2048
Environmental Monitoring
Block Engineering (Massachusetts, U.S.)
LaserWarn
Blue Industry and Science (Paris)
X-FLR8 V2
Daylight Solutions Inc. (California, U.S.)
ChemDetect Mid-IR Liquid Analyzer
Illumination and Light Sources
Lumileds (California, U.S.)
LUXEON 3535L HE Plus
OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH (Munich)
SFH 4735
SoraaLaser (California, U.S.)
LaserLight Fiber Module
Imaging and Cameras
Daylight Solutions Inc. (California, U.S.)
Spero-QT
Luminar Technologies Inc. (Florida, U.S.)
Model-G 3D LiDAR
Teledyne DALSA (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada)
Piranha4 Polarization
Lasers
Class 5 Photonics (Hamburg, Germany)
Supernova OPCPA
KMLabs (Colorado, U.S.)
Y-Fi OPA
OptoRes GmbH (Munich)
NG-FDML
Life Science Instrumentation
neaspec GmbH (Martinsried, Germany)
cryo-neaSNOM
Quantumcyte (California, U.S.)
Q1 ArraySeQ
Tomocube (Daejeon, South Korea)
HT-2
Materials Processing and Additive Manufacturing
Han's Laser Technology (Shenzhen, China)
Multi-axis, High-Precision UV-Laser
LIMO GmbH (Dortmund, Germany)
Activation Line UV-L750
NUBURU Inc. (Colorado, U.S.)
AO-150
Medical Diagnostics and Therapeutics
ContinUse Biometrics (Tel Aviv, Israel)
SmartHealth Mod
Lightpoint Medical Ltd. (Chesham, England)
LightPath Imaging System
Lumedica (North Carolina, U.S.)
OQ LabScope
Optics and Optomechanical Components
AdlOptica Optical Systems GmbH (Berlin)
foXXus
Optotune Switzerland AG (Dietikon, Switzerland)
MR-15-30
Spectrolight Inc. (California, U.S.)
Flexible Wavelength Selector
Test and Measurement
Gamma Scientific (California, U.S.)
GS-1290-NED
Si-Ware Systems (Cairo)
NeoSpectra Micro
Spheryx Inc. (New York, U.S.)
xSight
Among the presenters for the 2018 Prism Awards are Debbie Gustafson, CEO of Energetiq Technology; Eric Mottay, CEO of Amplitude Systèmes; Akira Hiruma, president and CEO of Hamamatsu Corp.; Ray O. Johnson, a member of the investment team at Bessemer Venture Partners (and former CTO of Lockheed Martin Corp.); and Peter Leibinger, CTO of TRUMPF.