SPIE and supporting organizations recognize contributions that have been made by experts, and honor their accomplishments with the following prestigious awards:
| Award | Award recipient | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Active Photonic Platforms Best Poster Award | Whittington, Christopher S. | 13578-93, Heterogenous integration of VO₂ nanopatches on subwavelength-engineered antislot photonic crystal for optical switching |
| Active Photonic Platforms Best Poster Award | Xu, Zheheng | 13578-101, Dispersion engineering of thin active region mid-infrared combs |
| ETAI Best Presentation Award | Granfors, Mirja | 13585-25, DeepTrack2: physics-based microscopy simulations for deep learning |
| ETAI Best Presentation Award | Paparelle, Iris | 13585-15, Quantum reservoir computing with nonlinear optics: experimental continuous variable memory control |
| ETAI Best Presentation Award | Thanabalan, Hari Prakash | 13585-19, Inchworm inspired soft robot locomotion based on groove-guided locomotion |
| Nonimaging Optics Best Student and Postdoc Presentation Award | Tham, Wai Qian | 13597-13, Experimental validation of a prototype compound parabolic concentrator as a viable façade-mounted daylighting system |
| Nonimaging Optics Best Student and Postdoc Presentation Award | Zhang, Zijun | 13597-17, Reflective freeform optics tailoring for off-axis illumination systems |
| Nonimaging Optics Optical Design Competition | Lehmann, Alex | 13597 Optical Design Competition |
| Nonimaging Optics Optical Design Competition | Haenen, Ludo | 13597 Optical Design Competition |
| Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation Best Student Poster | Flores, Gabriela | 13580-65, Experimental generation of scalar and vector vortex Pearcey-Gauss beams |
| Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation Best Student Poster | Lu, Yuli | 13580-57, Trapping and chemical characterization of sub-microplastics using Raman optical tweezers with machine learning |
| Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation Best Student Presentation | Stewart, Adam | 13580-47, Holographic optical tweezers for rotational control of self-assembled nanodiamond |
| Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation Best Student Presentation | Vallance, Adam | 13580-40, Optical holographic-assisted 3D manufacturing of acoustically levitated photopolymers |
| Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation Best Student Presentation | Selin, Martin | 13580-37, Mapping the adsorption dynamics of core-shell particles at liquid-liquid interfaces with optical tweezers |
| Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation Best Student Presentation | Shultz, Natalie | 13580-7, Large-scale 3D nanoassembly using automated optical tweezers |