Awards and Honors

Laureate - Professor

2013

BELLINGHAM, WA, USA — 4 June 2013 -- SPIE will promote 69 new Fellows of the Society this year, to recognize the significant scientific and technical contributions of each in the multidisciplinary fields of optics, photonics, and imaging. SPIE Fellows are honored for their technical achievements and for their service to the general optics community and to SPIE in particular. More than 1,000 SPIE members have become Fellows since the Society’s inception in 1955.

The annual recognition of Fellows provides an opportunity for SPIE to acknowledge Members for their outstanding technical contributions and service to SPIE.

Raman Kashyap, Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada, for achievements in fiber Bragg gratings and optical fibers.

Kashyap has contributed significantly to the development of fibre Bragg gratings (FBG) over the past 20 years. His seminal paper on FBGs in 1990 not only demonstrated the first reflection filters at a wavelength of 1550nm, but also the first fibre laser using such grating, thus opening a new field of fibre optics research. He was also the first to demonstrate new ideas using FBGs, including the broadband step‐chirped grating for dispersion compensation and large band reflectors. He also discovered the low‐power optical damage effect in optical fibres, which is having a significant impact on the technology of fibre lasers and communications.

As an active member of the optical community, Kashyap published Fibre Bragg Gratings, the first book on the subject, and subsequently followed with the publication of a second edition that has greatly impacted the technology and teaching of FBGs to both industry and academia. He has published several works on new ideas for laser cooling, surface Plasmon resonance sensors, random lasers, ultra-long FBGs, and was also the first to demonstrate the effectiveness of the commercial 213-nm QS laser source from Xiton Photonics for FBG fabrication.

He has published over 450 papers in refereed journals and conferences, and presented over 75 Invited talks. He is also the author of 46 patents many of which are as a single inventor. He currently holds 26 granted patents.

Kashyap, co‐jointly with F. Ouellette, chaired the first two SPIE-supported meetings in Quebec in 1991 and 1993 on the subject of Photosensitivity in glasses. In addition he has supported many SPIE meetings since the ‘80s and has published several Invited papers at Photonics West. He has served as a technical chair, program or technical committee member and reviewer with the SPIE-supported conferences in Canada since 2000 and was the co‐chair of the Photonics North Conference in Ottawa in 2011. A long-time member of SPIE, he has published over 50 papers in SPIE Proceedings.

Each year, SPIE promotes members as new Fellows of the Society. Fellows are members who have made significant scientific and technical contributions in the multidisciplinary fields of optics, photonics, and imaging. They are honored for their technical achievement, for their service to the general optics community, and to SPIE in particular. More than 900 SPIE members have become Fellows since the Society's inception in 1955.