Since 1959, over 2,500 members have joined the ranks of OSA Fellow. These members have served with distinction in the advancement of optics and photonics through distinguished contributions to education, research, engineering, business and society. The number of elected Fellows is limited by the Society's bylaws to be no more than 10% of the total OSA Membership and the number each year is limited to approximately 0.5% of the current membership total (https://www.osa.org/en-us/awards_and_grants/fellow_members/ ).
Robert Huber receives this distinction “For outstanding contributions to the development of tunable lasers and imaging techniques, especially Fourier domain mode locking” (
https://www.osa.org/en-us/awards_and_grants/fellow_members/recent_fellows/2021_fellows/http
