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2018 Gold Medal Award
Yung, Lehman, Tomlin, Stephens, Vayshenker
AWARD CITATION
Awarded for achievements in science and engineering. The group is recognized for establishing the first primary standard to measure optical fiber-based laser power. The standard exploits the team's innovative coatings, which are the most light-absorbing, or blackest, material ever made, and the NIST-developed superconducting transition-edge thermometer. The standard drastically reduces the traceability chain for fiber-based laser power, will improve the uncertainty by a factor of four, and enables may hundreds of calibrations per year to support telecommunications, sensing, defense, and the development of future quantum networks.