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The OFC 2003 Awards Ceremony took place on Tuesday, March 25, 2003 followed by the Plenary Session. The John Tyndall Award and the IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award were presented, as well as the OSA, IEEE/LEOS, and IEEE/ComSoc Fellowship Awards.

John Tyndall Award
This award is named for the 19th century British scientist who was the first to demonstrate a phenomenon of internal reflection. First presented in 1987, the Tyndall Award recognizes an individual who has made pioneering, highly significant, or continuing technical or leadership contributions to fiber optics technology. Corning, Inc. endows the award, a glass sculpture that represents the concept of total internal reflection. Recipients of the John Tyndall Award receive a certificate and a cash prize of $3,200.

The winner of the 2003 John Tyndall Award was Andrew Chraplyvy, Lucent Tech., USA. The 2003 award was presented for "pioneering research on optical fiber nonlinearities and their dispersion management, and leading wavelength-division-multiplexed fiber transmission systems beyond Terabit/second capacities".

Andrew Chraplyvy received his undergraduate degree in physics from Washington University in St. Louis, and his MS and PhD degrees in physics from Cornell University. He is Director of Lightwave Systems Research at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies. He is a Bell Labs Fellow, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, and a member of the IEEE.

IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award
The IEEE presented the 2003 IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award - Sponsored by Motorola Foundation to Kenichi Iga (F'IEEE), Executive Director, Japan Society for Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan, "For pioneering developments of surface emitting semiconductor lasers and arrays."

The IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award was established in 2000 to pay tribute to the most important contributions to emerging technologies recognized within recent years. The award is named in honor of Dr. Daniel E. Noble, executive vice chairman of the Board emeritus of Motorola. Dr. Noble is known for the design and installation of the nation's first statewide two-way radio communications systems, which was the first in the world to use FM technology.