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AWARDS

R&D 100 Award - PhotoForce Project

R&D 100 Award

The R&D 100 Awards have served as the most prestigious innovation awards program for the past 55 years, honoring great R&D pioneers and their revolutionary ideas in science and technology.

Winner's Name

Brian Simonds, Kyle Rogers, Ivan Ryger, Joshua Hadler, Paul Williams, Alexandra Artusio-Glimpse, John Lehman, Nathan Tomlin, and Ari Feldman

Awarded

November 1, 2017

Awarding Organization

R&D 100

Brian Simonds, Kyle Rogers, Ivan Ryger, Joshua Hadler, Paul Williams, Alexandra Artusio-Glimpse, John Lehman, Nathan Tomlin, and Ari Feldman

For the development of a Radiation Pressure Power Meter that enables extremely high continuous laser powers to be measured as the force applied by the laser light reflects from a mirror. And improving on conventional power meters as a truly portable, lighter, faster, measurable, and traceable primary standard device.

Radiation