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Previous Awards

The papers receiving these awards were selected from a set of outstanding papers, based on the quantitative and qualitative classifications as well as comments provided by the program committee reviewers, their final classification as full paper and their oral presentation at the conference.

2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013

PHOTOPTICS 2025

Best Paper Award

Slice Reconciliation in Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution Using Discrete Modulation
Margarida Almeida, Armando N. Pinto and Nuno A. Silva

Honorable Mention: Design and Simulation of a Vertical Waveguide Based Polarization Color Routing Device
F. Ali, B. Figeys, O. Shramkova, R. MacCiarnain, X. Rottenberg, R. Gehlhaar and J. Genoe

PHOTOPTICS 2024

Best Paper Award

Subwavelength Plasma Gratings Formation in the Process of Laser Modification in the Volume of Fused Silica
Anna V. Bogatskaya, Ekaterina A. Volkova and Alexander M. Popov

PHOTOPTICS 2023

Best Paper Award

Barrier Structure for Ga-Free Type-II Superlattice Midwave Infrared Photodetector
P. Christol, M. Bouschet, J. P. Perez and N. Péré-Laperne

PHOTOPTICS 2022

Best Paper Award

Classification of Brain Tumour Tissues in Human Patients using Machine Learning
Françoise Bouvet, Hussein Mehidine, Bertrand Devaux, Pascale Varlet and Darine Abi Haidar

Best Student Paper Award

Solid-state Photoluminescent Quantum Dots for Explosive Detection
Federica Mitri, Andrea De Iacovo, Serena De Santis, Carlo Giansante, Davide Spirito, Giovanni Sotgiu and Lorenzo Colace

Best Poster Award

Sensing Bandwidth Enlargement with Ten Orthogonal Codes in Quasi-distributed Acoustic Sensing System
Ziwen Deng, Ruobing Xu, Yuyao Wang, Jialin Jiang and Zinan Wang

PHOTOPTICS 2021

Best Paper Award

Nanosphere Photolithography: The Influence of Nanopore Arrays Disorder on Extraordinary Optical Transmission
Andrei Ushkov, Olivier Dellea, Isabelle Verrier, Thomas Kampfe, Alexey Shcherbakov, Jean-Yves Michalon and Yves Jourlin

PHOTOPTICS 2020

Best Paper Award

Surface Plasmons Phase Imaging Microscopy using Deep Learning
Suejit Pechprasarn, Suvicha Sasivimolkul, Chayanisa Sukkasem, Phitsini Suvarnaphaet and Nuntachai Thongpance

Best Student Paper Award

Analysis of Surface Plasmon-Polariton Modes with Metallic Structures and Polarized Light across Gapped Plasmonic Waveguides
Guhwan Kim, Sung-Ryoung Koo and Myung-Hyun Lee

Best Poster Award

Homogeneous Light Source for Surface Plasmon Resonance Imaging
Peter Hausler, Simon Jobst, Johannes Fischer, Carina Roth and Rudolf Bierl

PHOTOPTICS 2019

Best Paper Award

Effect of Dispersive Reflectivity on the Stability of Gap Solitons in Dual-core Bragg Gratings with Cubic-quintic Nonlinearity
Afroja Akter, Md. Jahedul Islam and Javid Atai

Best Student Paper Award

Soldering and Packaging Study for an Optical Filter Required for High Resolution Earth Observation Space Missions
Mariia Kepper, Pol Ribes-Pleguezuelo, Marcel Hornaff, Erik Beckert, Ramona Eberhardt, Pascal Pranyies, Isabelle Toubhans, Francis Descours and Andreas Tünnermann

Best Poster Award

Two-dimensional Laser Scanner with Low Mechanical Cross Coupling based on Piezoelectric Actuators
Chen Wei, Luo Dong, Liang Yuanbo, Liu Peng, Chen Liangpei and Zhang Yizhou

PHOTOPTICS 2018

Best Paper Award

On the Probability Density Function of Inter-core Crosstalk Power in Birefringent Homogeneous Multi-core Fibers
Ricardo O. J. Soeiro, Tiago M. F. Alves and Adolfo V. T. Cartaxo

Best Student Paper Award

High Peak Power Er-doped Tapered Fiber Amplifier
M. M. Khudyakov, A. E. Levchenko, V. V. Velmiskin, K. K. Bobkov, D. S. Lipatov, A. N. Guryanov, M. M. Bubnov and M. E. Likhachev

Best Poster Award

Laser Spectroscopy for Trace Matter Detection in Air
T. Stacewicz, Z. Bielecki, J. Wojtas, P. Magryta and M. Winkowski

PHOTOPTICS 2017

Best Paper Award

Mueller Matrix Polarimetry by Means of Azimuthally Polarized Beams and Adapted Commercial Polarimeter
Juan Carlos Gonzalez de Sande, Gemma Piquero and Massimo Santarsiero

Best Student Paper Award

Direct Observation of the 2D Gain Profile in High Power Tapered Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers
Rebecca B. Swertfeger, James A. Beil, Stephen M. Misak, Jeremy Thomas, Jenna Campbell, Daniel Renner, Milan Mashanovitch and Paul O. Leisher

Best Poster Award

Fast Polarization Switch for Polarization-based Quantum Communication
Vinicius M. Lima, Gustavo C. Amaral, Felipe Calliari, Guilherme P. Temporão, Jean Pierre von der Weid, Joaquim D. Garcia and João Pedro Garcia

PHOTOPTICS 2016

Best Paper Award

Waveguide Evanescent Field Microscopies for Application in Cell- and Bacteria- Biophysics
Silvia Mittler

Best Student Paper Award

Interference Stabilization and Possibility of Amplification and Lasing in Plasma Channel Formed in Gas by Intense Femtosecond Laser Field
A. V. Bogatskaya, E. A. Volkova and A. M. Popov

PHOTOPTICS 2015

Best Paper Award

Spectroscopic Study of Some IED’s Precursors by Means of Laser Photoacoustic Spectroscopy Combined with Multivariate Analysis
A. Puiu, G. Giubileo and A. Palucci

Best Student Paper Award

Combination of Characteristic Green’s Function Technique and Rational Function Fitting Method for Computation of Modal Reflectivity at the Optical Waveguide End-facet
Abdorreza Torabi and Amir Ahmad Shishegar

PHOTOPTICS 2014

Best Paper Award

Compressor Design for a 30fs-300J 10PW Ti:sapphire Laser - Divided-compressor with an Object-Image-Grating Self-tiling Tiled Grating
Zhaoyang Li, Tao Wang, Guang Xu and Yaping Dai

Best Student Paper Award

Photon-pair Generation in Chalcogenide Glass - Role of Waveguide Linear Absorption
Nuno A. Silva and Armando N. Pinto

PHOTOPTICS 2013

Best Paper Award

Selective Two-photon Excitation by Parametrically Shaped Laser Pulses after an Optical Fiber
Albrecht Lindinger