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.

2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013

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