IPG Photonics Corporation, the global leader in fiber laser technology, has won the 2026 SPIE Prism Award in the category of lasers.

About the Awards

Each year, the SPIE Prism Awards reflect the rapidly growing trajectory, exciting latest developments, and rich technical innovations across photonics and photonics-enabled industries. This year, the annual ceremony honored a range of established and emerging companies applying innovative and creative solutions to critical problems in areas such as cameras and imaging systems, sensors, lasers, quantum technology, XR technology, and biophotonic instruments.

Finalists and winners were selected by a panel of international judges who leveraged their knowledge and acumen from across the technology commercialization and funding sectors. The distinguished judges from eight countries included government-agency representatives, commercial business executives, academic researchers, and industry leaders.

About IPG Innovation

The award winning product is a novel 8-kilowatt compact single-mode laser source with M2 < 1.1, which well represents the culmination of 35 years of continuous IPG laser innovation and will radically change the landscape of industrial single-mode lasers.  This compact, high-power laser source delivers world leading brightness and diffraction limited quality, providing customers with higher precision for existing applications and enabling new applications across a wide range of industries.

Oleg Shkurikhin, VP Laser Operations, was in attendance at the award ceremony and had this to say, “It’s an honor for us to receive this award, which reflects the spirit of IPG and our founder Valentin Gapontsev.  Our goal is to develop and bring to market products that provide real value.  The dedication from our people, especially Nikolai Platonov who led the R&D, is a testament to how we will continue to push the boundaries of fiber laser technology.”