Presenting as a young researcher in front of peers at a major forum is no small feat. At Photonics Prague 2025, our Award Committee, formed by members of the Program Committee and the Czech and Slovak Society for Photonics (CSSF), carefully evaluated every student oral and poster presentation. After a thorough review, three students rose above the rest, demonstrating outstanding clarity, scientific rigor, and originality.
Dominika Popelová
Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Prague, Czech Republic
Dominika Popelová, Jan Šulc, Michal Němec, Jan Pejchal, Jan Havlíček, Helena Jelínková, Martin Nikl
Broadly tunable diode-pumped 2.1µm laser based on µ-PD grown Tm,Ho:GSAG
Seyed Meraaj Foroughipour
Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien), Meso-Aspheric Optics & LSFM Group, Optoelectronic, Materials Dept., FKE, Vienna, Austria
Saiedeh Saghafi, Seyed Meraaj Foroughipour, Massih Foroughipour, Sonia Prado-López, James Oakes, Klaus Becker
Beam width tunability using refractive optics in static light sheet microscopy
Ching-Yu Hsu
College of Photonics, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Tainan, Taiwan
Ching-Yu Hsu, Wei-Han Fang, Jia-Ming Liu, Zingway Pei
Normal incidence germanium photodetector with an underlying silicon lateral PIN structure for short-wavelength infrared detection