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
                
                
                        
                    
                        
                            
                            
                            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
                
                
                        
                    
            
            
            
            
            
            
               
        
            
            
            
                PHOTOPTICS 2023
            
            
                
                    Best Paper Award
                
                
                        
                    
            
            
            
            
            
            
               
        
            
            
            
                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
                
                
                        
                    
            
            
               
        
            
            
            
                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
                
                
                        
                    
            
            
            
                
                    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
                
                
                        
                    
            
            
            
                
                    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
                
                
                        
                    
            
            
               
        
            
            
            
                PHOTOPTICS 2018
            
            
                
                    Best Paper Award
                
                
                        
                    
            
            
            
                
                    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
                
                
                        
                    
            
            
            
                
                    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
                
                
                        
                    
            
            
            
                
                    Best Student Paper Award
                
                
                        
                    
            
            
            
            
               
        
            
            
            
                PHOTOPTICS 2015
            
            
                
                    Best Paper Award
                
                
                        
                    
            
            
            
                
                    Best Student Paper Award
                
                
                        
                    
            
            
            
            
               
        
            
            
            
                PHOTOPTICS 2014
            
            
                
                    Best Paper Award
                
                
                        
                    
            
            
            
                
                    Best Student Paper Award
                
                
                        
                    
            
            
            
            
               
        
            
            
            
                PHOTOPTICS 2013
            
            
                
                    Best Paper Award