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Spatialight Product Wins Award
Spatialight Product Wins Award
Spatialight's display, has won the 1997 LASER FOCUS WORLD Commercial Technology Achievment Award in the category of accessories. The judges were members of the editorial advisory board of the magazine, a Penwell Publishing Company monthly publication. Meadowlark Optics, our distributor submitted the product in August, 1996. The competition included Thomson Components, Toshiba America Electronic Components, Hamamatsu Corp. and 25 other finalists. Among the winners were entries from Boeing (formerly Rockwell Electro-Optical Center) and Lucent Technologies (Formerly Bell Laboratories).
Dean S. Irwin, V.P. of Engineering at Spatialight, Inc. accepting the award at the SPIE Photonics West conference in San Jose, CA. The award ceremony was on February 12, 1997 at the Hyatt hotel.
The advisory board members of Laser Focus World are:
Thomas Baer, Arcturus Engineering;
Dirk Basting, Lambda Physik;
Dan Botez, University of Wisconsin-Madison;
Philip Brierley, Pike Technologies;
Jean Bulabois, Institute Poytechnique de Sevenans, France;
H. John Caulfield, Alabama A&M in Normal;
G.J. Dixon, CREOL;
Thomas Giallorenzi, Naval Research Laboratory;
David C. Hanna, Southampton University, England;
Lewis M. Holmes, American Institute of Physics;
Bruce S. Hudson, Syracuse University;
Ralph R. Jacobs, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory;
Anthony Johnson, New Jersey Institute of Technology;
Chinlon Lin, Bellcore;
Jan Melles, Photonics Investments, Duiven, The Netherlands;
Gerard A. Mourou, University of Michigan;
Masahiro Joe Nagasawa, TEM Co. LTD, Tokyo Japan;
Dilip K. Paul, Comsat Laboratories;
Harvey Pollicove, University of Rochester;
Leonard E. Ravich, Boxford, MA;
Ralph A. Rotolante, Vicon Infrared;
M. YA. Schelev, General Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia;
Robert R. Shannon, University of Arizona;
James J. Snyder, Blue Sky Research;
Orazio Svelto, Polytechnic Institute of Milan, Italy;
Dinsheng Wang, Academia, Sinica, Beijing, China;
Colin E. Webb, Oxford University;
Ahmed Zewail, California Institute of Technology;
Joseph van Zwaren, Ministry of Science & Technology, Israel;