Stay Tuned for 2025 Prism and Catalyst Award Winners

Congratulations to this year’s finalists! We are excited to see who surpasses the competition to take home these prestigious prizes.

Our 2025 winners will be announced live at the Award Ceremony at SPIE Photonics West on 29 January 2025. The winner of the Catalyst Award will also be awarded during the ceremony.


The Prism Awards always showcase an impressive spectrum of innovative solutions based on optics and photonics technology.
— Kent Rochford, SPIE CEO

2024 Winners


2023 Winners


Past Winners

2022

Luxexcel, VisionPlatform™

Lumotive, Meta-Lidar™ Platform

SWIR Vision Systems, Acuros® eSWIR Camera

PlenOptika, QuickSee

BRELYON, Ultra Reality Display

Civan Lasers, OPA 6 Weld

LightPath Technologies, Freeform Optics

ColdQuanta, Albert: The Quantum Emulator Machine

Stuttgart Instruments, Alpha

Zemax, OpticStudio STAR Module

2021

ALPhANOV, Immersive Photonics Lab

Augmentiqs Medical, Augmentiqs 1000

BMF (Boston Micro Fabrication), microArch™ S240

Element Six, DNV-B1™

Kyocera SLD Laser, LaserLight W-IR SMD

nanoLambda, Digital Nano Spectrometer NSP32

Norlase, LION

RaySecur, MailSecur mmWave Scanner

Teledyne DALSA, Linea HS 32k/2.5μm TDI Camera

WaveOptics, WaveOptics Waveguide Platforms

2020

CloudMinds, Smart MEMs Handheld Raman XI²

InnolumeCW, Datacom Laser

Inspekto, Inspekto S70

Outsight, 3D Semantic Camera

Pendar Technologies, Pendar X10

PhotoniCare, TOMi Scope

Prisma Photonics, PrismaSense

TERA-print, TERA-Fab E Series

WaveOptics, Waveguides

2019

4D Technology, Nanometrics, 4D InSpec XL

Blackmore, Automotive Doppler Lidar System

CloudMinds, XI™ AI Raman Spectrometer

Double Helix, SPINDLE

Leica, BLK3D

Modular Photonics, OMPlex

nLIGHT, Corona

QD Laser, RETISSA Display

Smart Vision Lights, NanoDrive

TOPTICA Photonics, DLC TOPO

 

2018

AdlOptica, foXXus

Block Engineering, LaserWarn Analyzer

Class 5 Photonics, Supernova OPCPA

ContinUse Biometrics, SmartHealth Mod

LIMO, Activation Line UV-L750

Luminar, Model-G 3D LiDAR

Quantumcyte, Q1 - ArraySeQ

NKT Photonics, LIOS EN.SURE

SoraaLaser, LaserLight Fiber Module

Spheryx, xSight

2017

ALPhANov, GoSpectro

Crystalline Mirror Solutions, xtal mir

Leica Geosystems, Leica BLK360

Nufern - Coherent, NuBEAM Flat-Top

PolarOnyx, Tungsten-LAM

QD Laser, Ultra-Short Pulsed Seeder for Fiber Laser

Rapid Biosensor Systems, TB Breathalyser

Thorlabs, Mid-Infrared Supercontinuum Laser

TruTag Technologies, Handheld Hyperspectral Imager

2016

4D Technology, FlexCam

Biodesy, Biodesy Delta

Boulder Nonlinear Systems, Large Aperture LCPGs

Dolby, Christie & Necsel, Dolby Vision Cinema Laser Projector

First Light Imaging, C-RED One

LightFab, LightFab 3D Printer

Lytid, TeraCascade

Nanoco, CFQD© Quantum Dots

Spectral Engines, Wireless IR Analyzer

2015

BacterioScan, Laser Microbial Growth Monitor

Fianium, WhiteLase SC400-20

Hamamatsu, Micro-spectrometer

Inrad Optics, Stilbene Single Crystals

Intel, Corning & US Conec, MXC Connector

IPG Photonics, GLPN-500-R

LUXeXcel, Printoptical Technology

Seek Thermal & Raytheon, Seek Thermal Camera

WITec, RISE Microscopy

 

2014

AccuVein, AV400 Vein Viewing System

Compass-EOS, r10004 Router

HÜBNER, C-WAVE

HÜBNER, T-COGNITION

Nanoscribe, Photonic Professional GT

NECSEL, Frequency Converted Green Laser Array

Si-Ware Systems, MEMS FT-IR Spectrometer

Tornado Spectral Systems, OCTANE-860

V-Gen, VPFL-ISP-1-40-HE-50000

2013

Continuum, Horizon OPO

Heidelberg Instruments, Direct Write Pattern Generator

LEOSPHERE, R-MAN510 Aerosol Lidar

Linden Photonics, Lindex Optics Cleaners

OEwaves, Micro-Opto-Electronic Oscillator (uOEO)

Princeton Instruments, IsoPlane SCT Spectrograph

TAG Optics, TAG Lens 2.0

TeraDiode, TeraBlade

Verisante Technology, Aura

Visualant, ChromaID

2012

89 North, Heliophor

Amplitude Systèmes, Satsuma HE

MERMEC, T-Sight 5000

nanoplus, DFB laser at 3µm

OEwaves, Ultra-Narrow Linewidth Laser

Optotune, Laser Speckle Reducer

PD-LD, LabSource, VBG-stabilized dual laser source

WITec, True Surface Microscopy

2011

Block Engineering, LaserScan

Edmund Optics, TECHSPEC Plastic Hybrid Aspheric Lenses

EKSPLA, NT200-series lasers

Energetiq Technology, EQ-99 LDLS™ Laser-Driven Light Source

General Electric, TrueSense Personal Water Analytics

IPG Photonics, YLR-150 1500-QCW-AC

JenLab, MPTflex

LUMEN DYNAMICS, X-Cite XP750

PHOTONIS, Optical Receiver Module

Physical Optics Corporation, Mobile ELISA-based Pathogen Detection