1967 Gordon
R. Knight (Chief Executive Officer, Nanochip,
Inc.)
Effects of nonlinearities in wavefront reconstruction imaging
1968 Jack D. Gaskill (Professor Emeritus, Optical Sciences Center, Univ. Arizona)
Holographic imaging through a randomly inhomogeneous medium
1968 Albert Macovski (Canon Professor, Emeritus, Stanford Univ.)
Efficient holography using temporal modulation
1969 Richard A. Baugh (Hewlett-Packard, Retired)
High-efficiency volume holography
1970 F. Donald Russell (Chief Scientist, Retired, Loral Data Sytems)
Predetection and postdetection filtering for improved resolution in optical systems
1971 Antonio M. Silvestri (Senior Staff Engineer/Program Manager, ESL/TRW)
Digital image formation and Fourier domain quantization
1971 John F. Walkup (P.W. Horn Professor Emeritus, Texas Tech Univ.; Faculty Commons)
Limitations in interferometric measurements and image restoration at low light levels
1971 William T. Rhodes (Professor, Florida Atlantic University)
An optical array technique for removal of atmospheric aberrations in astronomical imaging
1972 Alexander A. Sawchuk (Chair, EE-Systems, Professor, USC)
Space-variant image motion degradation and restoration
1973 David C-K. Chu (Hewlett-Packard)
Spectrum shaping for computer generated holograms
1973 Mete Severcan (Professor, Middle East Technical University)
Computer generation of coherent optical filters with high light efficiency and large dynamic range
1974 Daniel A. Tichenor (Distinguished Technical Staff Member, Sandia National Laboratory)
Extended range spatial filters for image deblurring
1974 Kalyan Dutta (Lockheed Palo Alto Research)
Sampling and restoration of images formed in partially coherent light
1975 James R. Fienup (Robert Hopkins Professor of Optics, University of Rochester)
Improved synthesis and computational methods for computer-generated holograms
1975 Robert S. Powers (Retired)
Quantization errors in computer generated holograms
1979 Eric W. Hansen (Associate Professor, Dartmouth College)
Image reconstruction from projections using circular harmonic expansions
1979 John F. Belsher (Optical Sciences Corporation)
Space variant and parametric nonlinear restoration of photon-limited images
1979 Peter Kellman (U.S. Government)
Time integrating optical signal processing
1980 Alan Huang (Terabit Corporation)
Number theoretic processors
1980 Antonio R. Dias (Consultant)
Incoherent optical matrix-vector multiplication for high-speed data processing
1981 Jerry L. Erickson
Linear acousto-optic filtering with hetrodyne and frequency-plane control
1981 Masud Mansuripur (Professor, University of Arizona)
Statistics of noise in photodetection: applications in magneto-optic recording
1981 Young Dae Kim (Hewlett-Packard)
Fiber optic time domain reflectometers: approaches to performance improvement
1982 Herbert W. Swan (Senior Research Engineer, ARCO Oil and Gas)
Imaging through atmospheric turbulence via cepstral averaging
1982 John R. Mandeville (IBM Corporation)
Restoration of binary images from discrete scan data
1983 Kristina M. Johnson (Provost, Johns Hopkins University)
Holographic reciprocity law failure, with applications to the 3-D display of medical data
1984 Behzad Moslehi (President, Intelligent Fiber-Optic Systems)
Fiber-optic lattice signal processing
1984 Qizhi Cao (Executive Director, Novel
Industries Company, Hong Kong, Shanghai;
Managing Director, General Manager, Shanghai Novel Display
Company, Shanghai)
Coherent optical techniques for computing eigenvalues and inverses of circulant matrices
1984 Ray-Hong Park (Professor, Sogang University)
A comparison of methods for suppressing speckle in coherent images
1985 Ellen Ochoa (Astronaut; Deputy Director, Flight Crew Operations, Johnson Space Center)
Real-time intensity inversion using four-wave mixing in photorefractive crystals
1985 W. Philip Kegelmeyer (Sandia Labs)
Rigorous segmentation of speckled imagery
1986 Fred E. Babian (Software Engineer, KLA-Tencor)
Optical defect detection limits in semiconductor wafers and masks
1986 Paul S. Idell (Boeing Laser and Electro-optics)
Optimum imaging concentrators
1986 Raymond K. Kostuk (Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Arizona)
Multiple grating reflection holograms with application to optical interconnects
1987 Bradley D. Clymer (Associate Professor, Ohio State Univ.)
Optical clock distribution
1987 Roy M. Matic (Research Staff Member, Hughes Research Labs)
Optical predetection processing for partially coherent systems
1989 Jehosua Bruck (Gordon and Betty Moore Professor of Computation and Neural Systems & Electrical Engineering, Cal Tech)
Computing with networks of threshold elements
1989 John Downie (Corning, Inc.)
Wavefront control and correction with adaptive segmented mirrors
1990 Timothy Wilkinson (Senior Member of the Technical Staff, The Aerospace Corporation)
New techniques for handwritten signature verification
1990 Michael W. Farn (Fenwick & West, LLP)
Design and fabrication of binary diffractive optics
1991 Larry R. McAdams
Photonic switching with liquid crystals
1991 Dorothy Mighell Pender (Pipeline Maintenance Engineering Supervisor, Alyeska Pipeline Service Company)
Neural Networks and Handwritten Signature Verification
1991 Robert McRuer
Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Optical Switching Networks
1991 Haldun M. Ozaktas (Professor of Electrical Engineering, Bilkent University)
A Physical Approach to Communications Limits in Computiation
1992 Barry L. Shoop (Professor, U.S. Military Academy, West Point; COL, U.S. Signal Corps.)
Optical Oversampled Analog-to-Digital Conversion
1993 Ireena Erteza (Senior Member of the Technical Staff, Sandia National Labs)
A variational analysis of rectangular dielectric waveguides using Gaussian modal approximations
1996 Gibong Jeong (Cadence Design Systems Inc.)
Optically-Switched Multiwavelength Networks
1997 Jane Lam (Director of Design, NeoPhotonics)
Design of arrayed waveguide gratings for optical wavelength division multiplexing
2000 Edmund Y. Lam (Associate Professor, The Hong Kong University)
Image restoration for monochrome digital photography