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Annual Donors
This listing indicates those who have contributed recently to foundation programs supporting students and early career professionals. All amounts are in USD.
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Recognizing total contributions over the past ten years: donors in GREEN have contributed US$20,000 or more; those in BLUE have contributed US$5,000 or more.
$100,000+
Coherent Corp.
Edmund Optics Inc.
Go!Foton
Optica
VPG Foundation
Anonymous (1)
$50,000+
Ukraine Researcher Grants
Ursula J. Gibson
$20,000+
Corning
Lumentum
Meta
Source Photonics
Thorlabs
$10,000+
Gary C. and Carolyn M. Bjorklund
Joseph W. and Hon Mai Goodman
Hamamatsu Photonics
Joseph Wai-Ting Ip
Menlo Systems GmbH
Elizabeth Rogan
Anonymous (2)
$5,000+
John H. Bruning
Robert L. Byer
Jack Lee Jewell
Florence Kaminow
Barbara Marks-Forman
Peter F. Moulton
Donald Ray Scifres
Robert Shannon
$1000+
Richard L. Abrams
Andres Albanese
Apple Inc.
Sean Bagshaw
George Bayz
Magnus Bengtsson
Gisele Bennett
David Brady
Philip H. Bucksbaum
Simin Cai
Federico Capasso
Connie J. Chang-Hasnain
James and Catrina Coleman
Gene Davis
Hans de Veer
L.N. Durvasula
Turan Erdogan
Amy Eskilson
Yeshaiahu Fainman
Roger L. Farrow
Melanie Fein
James R. Fienup
Eric R. Fossum
Elsa M. Garmire & Robert H. Russell
Hank Gauthier
Google LLC
Eve Griliches
Ryan Hamerly
Lucian Hand
Susan Houde-Walter
Robert Hufnagel
Kenichi Iga
Francisco Imai
James D. Kafka
Leonard Kaminow
Gerd Keiser
Prem Kumar
Cedric F. Lam
Lester Lee
Frederick J. Leonberger
Yufeng Li
Eric Lynch
Claudio Mazzali
Harold J. Metcalf
Duncan T. Moore
G. Michael Morris
Theodore Moustakas
Radhakrishnan Nagarajan
Jerry Nelson
Boon S. Ooi
Adelbert Owyoung
Aydogan Ozcan
Chandra Kumar N. Patel
Jannick P. Rolland
Antonio Sanchez
Mike Sasnett
The Sawchuk Family Foundation
Virginia H. Siegman
Douglas J. Smith
Yasaman Soudagar
Eberhard Spiller
Chad Stark
Ronald S. Stead
James M. Sydor
Eric & Barbara Van Stryland
VPIphotonics
Carl J. Williams
Optimax Systems, Inc.
Anonymous (1)
$500+
Barton Billard
Arlete Cassanho
William J. Cassarly
Pierre H. Chavel
Dan Christensen
Benjamin Cromey
David Albert Feld
Thomas K. Gaylord
Edward M. Granger
Richard B. Holmes
Evelyn Hu
Robert W. Knighton
Photonics Media
Xiaoqin Li
Eric Lim
Holly Lippincott-Vedova
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz
Eric J. Lynch
Antigone Marino
Dennis L. Matthews
Richard B. Miles
Adam Mock and Sayaka Nasu
Michael H. Moloney
Steven C. Moss
Samuel Pellicori
Gregory J. Quarles
Bruce A. Richman
Charles Robertson
Arlene Smith
Richard D. Taylor
Ed and Cindy Watson
Ulrike K. Woggon
Anonymous (2)
$25+
Holly Aaron
Govind P. Agrawal
Richard K. Ahrenkiel Sr.
George Aitken
A. John Alcock
AmazonSmile
Vijayakumar Anand
David Anderson
Leonard Joseph Andrews
Jose Arce-Diego
Dushyant Arora
Levon V. Asryan
Lahsen Assoufid
David Attwood
William Austin
Nicolae Avram
Maria Vanessa Balois-Oguchi
Ken L. Barat
Ajanta Barh
Robert Bartolini
Matthew C. Bashaw
Steven Battel
John Bernard
Ioannis Besieris
Richard Boggy
Suzanne Bonenfant
Keith D. Bonin
Brandon Parker
Brian Boswell
Robert W. Boyd
LeAnn Brasure
Clark Bright
Farnsworth Bryant
Wolf Buechtemann
Nadezhda M. Bulgakova
Dale A. Buralli
Rachel Burgess
Brandon Buscaino
Edlef Büttner
Aidé Cabrera Carrillo
Jin-Xing Cai
Brian K. Canfield
Thomas F. Carruthers
Alvaro Casas-Bedoya
Tatevik Chalyan
Francis Chan
Ashish K. Chatterjee
Monish Chatterjee
Dimitrios Chatzitheocharis
Rama Chellappa
Lawrence Chen
Wan Cheung
Evan Chicklis
Bernard Choi
Peter P. Clark
Warren Clark
Anna Consortini
Yves G. Conturie
Bruce B. Craig
Travis Crawford
R. Stephen Craxton
Katherine Creath
Brian Culshaw
David G. Cunningham
Eric Cunningham
Dan Curticapean
Francesco Da Ros
Gislin Dagnelie
Christopher Dainty
P. Daniel Dapkus
Alan Bernard Dauger
Richard De La Rue
Gary DeBell
John Degnan
Fred M. Dickey
William Donaldson
Judy Donnelly
Terry A. Dorschner
Michael D. Duncan
Martin Edelson
David Ederer
Hans Joachim Eichler
Sverre T. Eng
Kai Engelhardt
Steve Federman
Flannery Martin
Albert Franco
Douglas Franzen
Federico Furch
Hannah Gallagher
Amir Gandjbakhche
Jing Gao
Richard Gaughan
Robert Gibbons
Give Lively Foundation Inc.
Franco Gori
Benjamin Greene
Stephen E. Griffin
Ruediger Grunwald
Lijun Guo
Samit Gupta
Dave Haas
Farhad Hakimi
Richard C. Hall
Jonathan E. Hardis
David Hardwick
James Harris
Angela Harrivel
David Michael Hasenauer
Tom Hausken
Donald F. Heath
Jeff C. Hecht
Bruce Herman
Warren Herman
Mary Kathleen Hibbs-Brenner
Wendell Talbot Hill
Leo Hollberg
Jeffery Hovis
Floyd Hovis
Hsu-Cheng Hsu
Ronald Albert Humphreys
Robert G. Hunsperger
Wilbur Hurst
Morten Ibsen
Takehito Ichida
Hirosei Inuzuka
Geoffrey Iverson
J. Roland Jacobsson
Aneek Enrique James
Graham Jenkin
B. Keith Jenkins
Anthony M. Johnson
Nemanja Jovanovic
Paul W. Juodawlkis
Brian L. Justus
Peter Kaiser
Hypolito Kalinowski
Arne H. Kalma
Valey Kamalov
Chris Karp
Ichiro Katayama
Thomas Katsouleas
Satoshi Kawata
Brian King
Kate Kirby
Marvin B. Klein
Keisuke Kojima
Brian Kolner
Yuichi Komachi
Eric Korevaar
Ellen Kosik Williams
William J. Kozlovsky
Munson A. Kwok
Nicholas Lagakos
Uwe Langbein
Tien Pei Lee
David B. Lees
Daan Lenstra
Marcia S. Lesky
Marc D. Levenson
Yajun Li
Guoqiang Li
Guixin Li
Charles Lin
Jeng-Feng Lin
Jung-Ping Liu
Dingquan Liu
Carlos Lopez-Mariscal
Sergiy Lysenko
Duncan Leo MacFarlane
Arlene P. Maclin
Henry S. Magnuski
Joseph N. Mait
Aristides Marcano Olaizola
Marian Marciniak
John H. Marsh
Thomas Marty
Jan Masajada
Vyacheslav Maslov
Toyonori Matsuda
Claire Max
Norman McCormick
Lenore McMackin
Herbert Mensah
Romeo Mercado
Larry D. Merkle
Andrejus Michailovas
Microsoft Corp
Timothy Miller
W.E. Moerner
Genaro Montanez
James Morehead
Ryuji Morita
Alan J. Morrow
Nanoplus Nanosystems and Technologies GmbH
Lalgudi Natarajan
Lynn E Nelson
Steven A. Newton
D.J. Nicholson
Elizabeth Nolan
Wilfred Norris
Irina Novikova
Jun Ono
Taofiq Paraiso
Piotr Parda
Nicolaie Pavel
Stephen A. Payne
Merle Persky
Jelena Pesic
Alan B. Petersen
Gale S. Petrich
Christoph Pfistner
Joseph Pinto
Alexandros Pitilakis
Todd B. Pittman
Stevan Ervin Plote
Alexandre Pohl
Joyce Poon
Faiz Rahman
Larry A. Rahn
M. Yasin Akhtar Raja
Stephen Eugene Ralph
Sujatha Ramanujan
Kent Ramthun
Raytheon Technologies
William A. Reed
Kimberly Reichel-Vischi
Iuliia Riabenko
Charles Riva
Brian Robertson
David Rockwell
John Rogers
Steve Rolt
Michael Ross
Chandra Roychoudhuri
Philip Russell
Jayanta Kumar Sahu
Alfons Schulte
Geary Schwemmer
Katie Schwertz
Thomas Seward
John Seymour
Lu Sham
Robert W. Shaw
Chiao-Yao She
Keizo Shinomori
Katia Shtyrkova
Randi A.Shumate
Kenneth Singer
David Sliney
L. Montgomery Smith
Arlee Smith
Sylvia Smolorz
Jin-Joo Song
Ronald Stearns
Michael Steinbock
James Walter Stewart
C. Martin Stickley
Roger H. Stolen
Bryan D. Stone
SubCom LLC
Hosna Sultana
Richard Sutherland
C. Burke Swan
Katsuhisa Tanaka
Berge Tatian
John Taylor
The Blackbaud Giving Fund
Frank Thiel
John Timothy
Shoji Tominaga
Svetlen Tonchev
Johannes Trbola
Govindarao Umesh
Patrick Vaccaro
C. van Trigt
Sergey Vasilyev
Verizon Foundation
Richard Vodhanel
Gerald G. Vurek
Laurence Watkins
Christoph Wehrli
Sharon M. Weiss
Jun Shan Wey
Stanley E. Whitcomb
Edward A. Whittaker
Michelle and Alan Willner
Edmond Wilson
Kim Winick
Frank W. Wise
Tiejun J. Xia
Chongjin Xie
Ichirou Yamaguchi
Jinghui Yang
Kiyotoshi Yasumoto
Shuang Yin
Mengjie Yu
Michael Zammit
Xiushan Zhu
Anonymous (57)
Donation level is determined by the sum of one-time or recurring contributions of US$25+ made by an individual or company between 31 December 2022 and 30 June 2024, and/or pledge agreements signed between 31 December 2022 and 30 June 2024. Standard pledges are paid in three-year terms, and donors are recognized for the pledge contribution at the total amount for three years. Donors with alternative pledge payment plans are listed for three years. Please contact foundation@optica.org with questions or corrections.