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The EPS Fresnel Prize
Fundamental aspects |
Applied aspects |
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| Year 2007 |
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Markus Aspelmeyer
Universität Wien, Austria "For his outstanding avhievement in the fields of entanglement, quantum communication and quantum physics of nano-mechanical devices." |
Jérôme Faure
Ecole Polytechnique-ENSTA-CNRS Palaiseau, France "For the application of high field lasers to laser plasma accelerators." |
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| Year 2005 |
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Jian-Wei Pan
Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology, China "For his pioneering works on experimental demonstration of quantum teleportation, entanglement swapping, entanglement purification and multi-photon entanglement. " |
Fetah Benabid
Department of Physics, University of Bath "For his pioneering work on the development of hollow core photonic crystal fibres and their application in laser-guidance of particles and ultra-low threshold stimulated Raman scattering in molecular gases." |
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| Year 2003 |
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Kjeld Eikema
Laser Centre, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands "For his production of pulsed narrowband tunable extreme UV laser radiation, and its application to accurately determine the Lamb shift in helium, and for production of cw Lyman-a laser radiation applied to spectroscopy of atomic hydrogen". |
Stefano Longhi
Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Italia "For his outstanding contributions to optics and photonics, especially for the developments of new ideas and techniques for laser pulse generation, manipulation and control at ultrahigh-repetition-rates using photonic grating structures". |
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| Year 2002 |
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Carlo Sirtori
Thales, France "For his outstanding and pioneering contribution to the birth and expansion of unipolar optoelectronics, in particular the plasmon enhanced waveguide and the first realization of GaAs based quantum cascade lasers." |
Rüdiger Paschotta
ETH-Zürich, Switzerland "For outstanding contributions to ultrafast all-solid-state lasers by pushing the frontiers in avarage power and pulse repetition rates by orders of magnitude." |
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| Year 2001 |
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Konrad Banaszek
Centre for Quantum Computation, Oxford, UK "For his outstanding contributions to our understanding of non-classical light and its application in quantum information processing, especially advancing our understanding of highly correlated \u201cbi-photons\u201d \u2013pairs of highly correlated photons such as those produced by down-convertors". |
Ronald Holzwarth
Max Planck-Institut for Quantum Optics Garching, Germany "For pioneering and revolutionary new technique to measure the frequency of light with extreme precision. The complex harmonic laser frequency chains of the past can now be replaced by a simple compact mode-locked femtosecond laser". |
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| Year 2000 |
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Fabien Bretenaker
Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers CNRS/Université de Rennes I, France "For outstanding research in fundamental optical physics and multi-axis cavities leading to the demonstration of a two-frequency tuneable laser". |
Arnaud Brignon
Thomson CSF, Laboratoire Central de Recherches Orsay, France. "For outstanding research in the control of laser beam quality using non-linear interactions in the gain medium and in photorefractive crystals ". |
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Berthold Leibinger Innovation Prize