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Berthold Leibinger Zukunftspreis goes to Federico Capasso; to be awarded with Innovationspreis this week

July 8, 2010

Ditzingen, Germany--On Friday, July 9, the Berthold Leibinger Stiftung will award Federico Capasso of Harvard University the 2010 Berthold Leibinger Zukunftspreis for his work in quantum-cascade lasers.

Gail Overton

Ditzingen, Germany--On Friday, July 9, the Berthold Leibinger Stiftung will award Federico Capasso of Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) the 2010 Berthold Leibinger Zukunftspreis for his work in quantum-cascade lasers.
The Zukunftspreis is a research prize (with a 30K Euro award purse) honoring research milestones regarding the application or generation of laser light. They will also award the Berthold Leibinger Innovationspreis (with a 30K, 20K, and 10K Euro award purse for first, second, and third place winners, respectively)—an innovation prize honoring advancements in the application or generation of laser light—to four winning groups this year (go to http://www.leibinger-stiftung.de/2.laureates_2010.html to see full details on the winners). The prizes are given out every two years.

In addition to his quantum-cascade laser specialty, Capasso’s group at Harvard University works on plasmonic nanospheres, surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs), deformed microcavity lasers, and multi-beam and multi-wavelength lasers.

SOURCE: Berthold Leibinger Stiftung; www.leibinger-stiftung.de/2.fascinating_world_of_lasers.html

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Gail Overton | Senior Editor (2004-2020)

Gail has more than 30 years of engineering, marketing, product management, and editorial experience in the photonics and optical communications industry. Before joining the staff at Laser Focus World in 2004, she held many product management and product marketing roles in the fiber-optics industry, most notably at Hughes (El Segundo, CA), GTE Labs (Waltham, MA), Corning (Corning, NY), Photon Kinetics (Beaverton, OR), and Newport Corporation (Irvine, CA). During her marketing career, Gail published articles in WDM Solutions and Sensors magazine and traveled internationally to conduct product and sales training. Gail received her BS degree in physics, with an emphasis in optics, from San Diego State University in San Diego, CA in May 1986.