OSA Presents Awards for Engineering Excellence

At its annual meeting last October, the Optical Society of America recognized the following four individuals for their achievements in optical engineering.

Henry A. Blauvelt, chief technology officer at cQuint Communications in Monrovia, California, received an Engineering Excellence Award for his “outstanding, innovative contributions in the development of linear technology for fiber-optic transmission systems, with major impact on the implementation of high-performance broadband communication, specifically for cable television distribution,” according to the citation.

Michael A. Klug, chief technology officer at Zebra Imaging in Austin, Texas, also garnered an Engineering Excellence Award. OSA cited Klug for his work in the field of holographic stereography, and noted that his work “has contributed to the convergence of art and computing to make holography a realistic medium for advertising and display.”

Another Engineering Excellence Award was presented to David G. Mehuys for the “development and commercialization of fiber-optic and semiconductor laser subsystems, including the first commercially available Raman-enhanced EDFAs [erbium-doped fiber amplifier] and the first extremely high-power Raman sources incorporating double-clad fiber technology.” Mehuys is a general manager at JDS Uniphase in San Jose, California.

Dale E. Morton also won an Engineering Excellence Award. He was acknowledged for his “major contributions over 30 years to thin film optical coating design, deposition process development, and the manufacture of high-density moisture stable films for telecommunication [wavelength division multiplexing] and other critical applications.” Morton is the process R&D manager at Denton Vacuum in Moorestown, New Jersey.