He obtains the “SPIE Harold E. Edgerton” Award 2019 for pioneering applications based on ultra-short light pulses in optical fibers.

The 24 distinguished award recipients represent achievements across a wide range of light-based sciences as well as the critical advancements made by these technologies.

John Dudley’s researches focuses in High-Speed Optics for pioneering applications of ultra-short pulse measurement techniques in nonlinear fiber optics and specifically for studies of ultrafast self-similarity, supercontinuum generation, and novel classes of optical soliton and optical rogue waves.