The SPIE Dennis Gabor Award in Diffractive Optics is presented in recognition of outstanding accomplishments in diffractive wavefront technologies, especially those that further the development of holography and metrology applications. Honorarium $2,000.
Dennis Gabor (5 June 1900–9 February 1979) was a Hungarian-British electrical engineer and physicist, most notable for inventing holography, for which he later received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics. Gabor also researched how human beings communicate and hear, resulting in the theory of granular synthesis. This and work in related areas was foundational in the development of time-frequency analysis.
For seminal contributions to holography, lens-free holographic microscopy, and computational imaging that democratize advanced measurement systems.
2022 - Gabriel Popsecu
2021 - Malgorzata Kujawinska
2020 - Pietro Ferraro
2019 - Min Gu
2018 - Kishan Dholakia
2017 - Toyohiko Yatagai
2016 - Ting-Chung Poon
2015 - Kazuyoshi ITOH
2014 - Pramod Rastogi
2013 - David J. Brady
2012 - Yeshaiahu Fainman
2011 - Wolfgan Osten
2010 - Mitsuo Takeda
2009 - Rajpal Sirohi
2008 - Leonid Glebov
2007 - Ichirou Yamaguchi
2006 - Demetri Psaltis
2005 - Bahram Javidi
2004 - Francis T. S. Yu
2003 - Chandra Vikram
2002 - Werner P. O. Jüptner
2001 - Hans Tiziani
2000 - Ole Johan Løkberg
1999 - Stephen A. Benton
1998 - Toshimitsu Asakura
1997 - Nils Abramson
1996 - Joseph Shamir
1995 - R. J. Pryputniewicz
1994 - H. John Caulfield
1993 - Gordon M. Brown
1992 - P. Hariharan
1991 - Paul Kirkpatrick and Albert V. Baez
1990 - William A. Gambling
1989 - R. Clark Jones
1988 - Trevor Moss
1987 - Joseph W. Goodman
1986 - A. Jacques Beaulieu
1985 - Robert A. Jones
1984 - Abe Offner
1983 - Emmett N. Leith and Yuri N. Denisyuk