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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.

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
Menlo Systems
Optica
VPG Foundation
Anonymous (1)

$50,000+

Hamamatsu Photonics
Thorlabs

$20,000+

Corning
Joseph Goodman
Urs Hoelzle
Lumentum
Meta
Source Photonics

$10,000+

John Bruning
Robert Byer
Jack Jewell
Barbara Marks-Forman
Optimax Systems, Inc.
Elizabeth Rogan

$5,000+

George Bayz
Gary and Carolyn Bjorklund
James and Catrina Coleman
Joseph Eberly
Joseph Ip
Florence Kaminow
Peter F. Moulton
Elizabeth Nolan
Robert Shannon

$1000+

Andres Albanese
Sean Bagshaw
Magnus Bengtsson
Gisele Bennett
Barton Billard
David Brady
Philip H. Bucksbaum
Simin Cai
Federico Capasso
Pierre H. Chavel
Paul Crosby
Gene Davis
Hans de Veer
L.N. Durvasula
Turan Erdogan
Amy Eskilson
Yeshaiahu Fainman
Betsy and Stephen Fantone
Roger L. Farrow
Melanie Fein
David Feld
James R. Fienup
Eric R. Fossum
Michal Lipson and Alexander Gaeta
Elsa M. Garmire
Hank Gauthier
Thomas K. Gaylord
Eve Griliches
Ryan Hamerly
Lucian Hand
Susan Houde-Walter
Robert Hufnagel
Kenichi Iga
James Kafka
Len Kaminow
Gerd Keiser
Robert Knighton
Michael Kriss
Prem Kumar
Lester Lee
Frederick J. Leonberger
Yufeng Li
Eric Lim
Lih-Yuan Lin
Eric Mazur
Claudio Mazzali
Harold J. Metcalf
Adam Mock and Sayaka Nasu
Duncan Moore
G. Michael Morris
Theodore Moustakas
Radhakrishnan Nagarajan
Boon Ooi
Adelbert Owyoung
Chandra Kumar N. Patel
Samuel Pellicori
Gregory Quarles
Bruce A. Richman
Charles Robertson
Jannick P. Rolland
Antonio Sanchez
Robert Sander
Mike Sasnett
Alexander A. Sawchuk
Virginia H. Siegman
Yasaman Soudagar
Eberhard SpillerThomas Starin
Ronald S. Stead
James Sydor
Eric and Barbara Van Stryland
Ed and Cindy Watson
Janusz S. Wilczynski
Carl Williams
Anonymous (2)

$500+

Brian K. Canfield
John Carlino
Arlete Cassanho
William J. Cassarly
Wan Cheung
Dan Christensen
Yves G. Conturie
David Cunningham
Stuart Elby
Albert Franco
Edward Granger
David Michael Hasenauer
Jeff C. Hecht
Richard B. Holmes
Evelyn Hu
Francisco Imai
Cedric Lam
Marc D. Levenson
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz
Holly Lippincott-Vedova
Antigone Marino
Dennis L. Matthews
Larry D. Merkle
Steven C. Moss
Lynn E. Nelson
Jerry Nelson
Michael Rivera
Anurag Sharma
Douglas Smith
Arlene Smith
Richard Sutherland
Gerald G. Vurek
Stanley E. Whitcomb
Steve Yao
Anonymous (2)

$500+

Holly Aaron
Govind P. Agrawal
George Aitken
A. John Alcock
Matthew E. Anderson
Leonard Joseph Andrews
Lahsen Assoufid
David Attwood
William Austin
Nicolae Avram
Bruce Baran
Ken L. Barat
Robert Bartolini
Ioannis Besieris
Donald Bethune
Gary Betts
Richard Boggy
Suzanne Bonenfant
Dale A. Buralli
Rachel Burgess
Jin-Xing Cai
Thomas Carruthers
Monish Chatterjee
Rama Chellappa
Lawrence Chen
Russell A. Chipman
Bernard Choi
Peter P. Clark
Warren Clark
Kenneth Connor
Bruce B. Craig
Katherine Creath
Benjamin Cromey
Dan Curticapean
Gislin Dagnelie
Christopher Dainty
P. Daniel Dapkus
Ramesh Datla
Alan Bernard Dauger
Gary DeBell
John Degnan
Kenneth A. Dick
Fred M. Dickey
David W. Doerr
Judy Donnelly
Terry A. Dorschner
Michael D. Duncan
Hans Joachim Eichler
Roger and Pat Falcone
Joel Falk
Steve Federman
Antonio Fimia Gil
Catalin Florea
Douglas Franzen
Richard Gaughan
Dave Gerstenberger
Robert Gibbons
Ursula J. Gibson
Donald Golini
Franco Gori
Benjamin Greene
Stephen E. Griffin
Ruediger Grunwald
Lijun Guo
Farhad Hakimi
Jonathan E. Hardis
David Hardwick
Tom Hausken
Donald F. Heath
Bruce Herman
Mary Hibbs-Brenner
Wendell Hill
Martin Hofer
Leo Hollberg
Gary Holtom
Jeffery Hovis
Floyd HovisHsu-Cheng Hsu
Ronald Albert Humphreys
Hirosei Inuzuka
Geoffrey Iverson
J. Roland Jacobsson
Aneek Enrique James
B. Keith Jenkins
Anthony M. Johnson
Kevin M. Jones
Nemanja Jovanovic
Paul W. Juodawlkis
Brian L. Justus
Peter Kaiser
Valey Kamalov
Chris Karp
Ichiro Katayama
Thomas Katsouleas
Satoshi Kawata
Kate Kirby
Marvin B. Klein
Eric Korevaar
Ellen Kosik Williams
William J. Kozlovsky
Munson A. Kwok
Nicholas Lagakos
Uwe Langbein
Daan Lenstra
Marcia S. Lesky
Gerd Leuchs
Yajun Li
Hongbo Li
Guifang Li
Jeng-Feng Lin
Michael G. Littman
Dingquan Liu
Carlos López-Mariscal
Arlene P. Maclin
Henry S. Magnuski
Joseph N. Mait
Marian Marciniak
John H. Marsh
Thomas Marty
Jan Masajada
Vyacheslav Maslov
Claire Max
Norman McCormick
Lenore McMackin
Curtis R. Menyuk
Howard M. Milchberg
W.E. Moerner
Michael H. Moloney
Genaro Montanez
James Morehead
Alan J. Morrow
Derek D. Nankivil
Brian E. Newnam
Steven Newton
Wilfred Norris
Irina Novikova
Jun Ono
Nicolaie Pavel
Stephen Payne
Alan B. Petersen
Christoph Pfistner
Joseph Pinto
Todd Pittman
Stevan Ervin Plote
Alexandre Pohl
Rajesh S. Raghavan
Larry A. Rahn
M. Yasin Akhtar Raja
Stephen Eugene Ralph
William Reed
Kimberly Reichel-Vischi
Alessandro Restelli
Charles Riva
David Rockwell
Zhanna Rodnova
John Rogers
Steve Rolt
Michael Ross
Chandra Roychoudhuri
Philip Russell
Adel Saleh
Walter Schroeder
Katie Schwertz
John Seymour
Lu Sham
Robert W. Shaw
Katia Shtyrkova
Randi A. Shumate
L. Montgomery Smith
Arlee Smith
Jin-Joo Song
Ronald Stearns
Michael Steinbock
Michelle Stephens
Roger H. Stolen
Wei-Chia Su
Sripriya Sundararajan
C. Burke Swan
Katsuhisa Tanaka
Berge Tatian
John Taylor
Frank Thiel
John Timothy
Shin-itrou Toda
Johannes Trbola
Patrick Vaccaro
Sergey Vasilyev
Richard Vodhanel
Laurence Watkins
Abbie T. Watnik
Christoph J. Wehrli
Jun Shan Wey
Edward Whittaker
Jay Wiesenfeld
Michelle and Alan Willner
Frank W. Wise
Tiejun J. Xia
Chongjin Xie
Michael Zammit
Anonymous (18)

$25+

Kazi S. Abedin
Richard K. Ahrenkiel Sr.
Jose Arce-Diego
Gombojav Ariunbold
A.N. Arunkumar
Levon V. Asryan
Abdul Ahad S. Awwal
Neal K. Baker
Maria Vanessa
Balois-Oguchi
Ajanta Barh
Steven Battel
Felipe Beltran-Mejia
John Bernard
John Black
Robert W. Boyd
Pierre-Francois Brevet
Clark Bright
Carlos Brito Cruz
Wolf Buechtemann
Brandon Buscaino
Edlef Büttner
Aidé Cabrera Carrillo
Alvaro Casas-Bedoya
Charles Cerjan
Soojin Cha
Francis Chan
Ashish K. Chatterjee
Dimitrios Chatzitheocharis
Evan Chicklis
Dismas Choge
Anna Consortini
Alejandro Cornejo-Rodriguez
R. Stephen Craxton
Eric Cunningham
Richard De La Rue
Ben Dixon
Vincent L. Donlan
Michael Downer
Martin Edelson
David L. Ederer
Sverre T. Eng
Dirk Robert Englund
Usamah Farrukh
Jose Everardo Juliao Ferreira Sr.
Pamela Flattau
Federico Furch
Hannah Gallagher
Amir Gandjbakhche
Bruce Garetz
Azriel Genack
Peter Girouard
Dave Haas
Richard C. Hall
Angela Harrivel
R. Hawkins
Warren Herman
Robert G. Hunsperger
Wilbur Hurst
Morten Ibsen
Masayuki Izutsu
Graham Jenkin
Hypolito Kalinowski
Arne H. Kalma
Felix Kapron
Brian King
Nicholas Kochan
Keisuke Kojima
Brian Kolner
S Kumar
Tien Pei Lee
David B. Lees
Guoqiang Li
Dean Liskow
Jung-Ping Liu
Sergiy Lysenko
Fred Mandelkorn
Aristides Marcano Olaizola
Toyonori Matsuda
Yobani Mejia-Barbosa
Carmen S. Menoni
Herbert Mensah
Romeo Mercado
Andrejus Michailovas
Timothy Miller
George Murray
Lalgudi Natarajan
D.J. Nicholson
Bishnu Pal
Taofiq Paraiso
Piotr Parda
Albert Clarence Parr
Merle Persky
Jelena Pesic
Martin Piltch
Alexandros Pitilakis
Faiz Rahman
Kent Ramthun
Michael Raymer
Iuliia Riabenko
Brian Robertson
Jorge J. Rocca
Jayanta Kumar Sahu
Alfons Schulte
Geary Schwemmer
Joel Seligson
Thomas Seward
Rajen Shankalpura
Chiao-Yao She
Keizo Shinomori
Louis Sica
Markus W. Sigrist
Kenneth Singer
Sylvia Smolorz
Behrouz Soroushian
John Stacy
Christoph Georg Stamm
James Walter Stewart
C. Martin Stickley
Hosna Sultana
Xiaojun Tang
Shoji Tominaga
Svetlen Tonchev
Govindarao Umesh
C. van Trigt
Robert Vogt
Wenjie Wan
Sharon M. Weiss
Wolfgang F. Wesemann
Kristen Wesley
Jack Wilson
Robert Gale Wilson
Kim Winick
Ichirou Yamaguchi
Kiyotoshi Yasumoto
Shuang Yin
Mengjie Yu
Linhui Yu
Xiushan Zhu
Anonymous (14)

Donation level is determined by the sum of one-time or recurring contributions of US$25+ made by an individual or company between 01 July 2023 and 31 December 2024, and/or pledge agreements signed between 01 January 2022 and 31 December 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.

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