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The EPS Quantum Electronics Prize
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| Year 2007 |
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Anton Zeilinger
Universität Wien, Austria "For his many seminal contributions to the foundations of quantum optics and quantum information science." |
Mordechai Segev
Technion, Haifa, Israel "For his pioneering contributions in the field of light propagation in nonlinear media, in particular regarding spatial solitons in photorefractive materials, incoherent solitons, and nonlinear waves in periodic structures." |
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| Year 2005 |
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Ignacio Cirac
Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Garching, Germany "For groundbreaking theoretical work on quantum information processing and on quantum gases; including pioneering proposals for quantum computation, quantum repeaters, quantum simulations, and quantum phase transitions in ultra-cold atoms." |
Gerd Leuchs
Max Planck Research Group, University of Erlangen, Germany "For the efficient generation of optical pulses for quantum communication by fiber optics techniques at telecommunications wavelengths and very high bit rates and unprecedented quantum noise reduction and entanglement." |
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| Year 2003 |
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Luigi Lugiato
Dipartimento di Scienze, Universita dell'Insubria Como, Italia. "For pioneering theoretical contributions to the fields of optical bistability and instabilities, optical pattern formation and cavity solitons, squeezing and quantum imaging". |
Gunter Huber
Institut für Laser-Physik, Universität Hamburg, Germany "For his outstanding and numerous contributions to physics of solid-state lasers and spectroscopy of laser crystals". |
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| Year 2002 |
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Serge Haroche
Ecole Normale Supérieure and Collège de France "For his pioneering investigations in Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics. Quantum Information and Decoherence". |
Wilson Sibbett
St. Andrews Univerity, Scotland "For his major contributions to the development and application of ultrashort light pulse techniques, and in particular to the development of self-mode-locked lasers". |
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| Year 2001 |
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Theodor W. Hänsch
Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik Garching, Germany "For his innovative contributions to laser spectroscopy, in particular regarding precision spectroscopy of hydrogen" |
Algis Petras Piskarskas
Vilnius University, Dept. of Physics, Lithuania "For his his pioneering research and development of ultrashort pulsed light sources based on optical parametric generation and oscillation". |
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| Year 2000 |
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Herbert Walther
Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik University of Munich, Munich, Germany "For the creation of the micromaser and the realisation of ionic crystals in traps" |
David Hanna
Optoelectronics Research Centre University of Southampton, UK "For his outstanding and numerous contributions to solid state laser physics and non-linear optics" |
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| Year 1998 |
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Vladilen Letokhov
"For pioneering and far-reaching contributions to the study of laser/matter interactions including atom optics, laser cooling, laser induced chemistry and laser analytical techniques" |
Orazio Svelto
"For pioneering and outstanding continuing activity in the fields of ultrashort laser pulses and solid state lasers". |
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| Year 1996 |
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Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
"For developing the dressed-atom approach in quantum optics and for fundamental contributions to the understanding of radiative forces with ground-breaking experiments in laser cooling and trapping of atoms". |
Sune Svanberg
"For pioneering laser applications in the fields of combustion diagnostics, remote sensing and biomedicine". |
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