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CAP Medal and Award Winners

The Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) and its medal partners are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 CAP medals.

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The 2022 CAP-INO Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Applied Photonics is awarded to

Hoi-Kwong Lo, University of Toronto, in recognition of his outstanding impact on the field of Quantum communication in terms of practical implementations, laying the groundwork for commercial products for the Quantum internet. Dr Lo is a researcher of truly international caliber, with large impact at the forefront of quantum cryptography and quantum key distribution (QKD) physics.


"I feel very honoured and delighted to be awarded the 2022 CAP-INO Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Applied Photonics. It is a recognition that the quantum internet is coming and quantum cryptography is now changing the world with its practical applications."

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The 2020 CAP-INO Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Applied Photonics was not awarded this year.

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The 2018 CAP-INO Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Applied Photonics is awarded to

Tigran Galstian, Universite Laval, in recognition of for the development and successful transfer of the “crystal lens” technology to the industry, for applications in cellphone cameras and dynamic lighting..


"It is a great honor for me to receive the Canadian Association of Physicists and the Institut National d'Optique Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Applied Photonics. Thank you. I would like also to thank my collaborators who made this possible including my colleagues who accepted and supported me all these years."

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The 2016 CAP-INO Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Applied Photonics is awarded to

Richard Boudreault, Chairman Polar Knowledge Canada, in recognition of for his impressive career and intellectual property portfolio, as well as direct contribution to the establishment of several companies based on photonics technologies, namely Orbite Aluminae (production of high-purity Al-oxide and rare-earth with world’s first clean technology) and ART (development of two imaging systems based on the TPSF technology - molecular imaging based on time-resolved fluorescence for small animal imaging, and NIR TPSF spectroscopic system for early breast cancer detection).


"It is a great honor to receive the 2016 CAP-INO Medal in Applied Photonics, as a professional physicist in biophotonics and photonic materials science, but also as an entrepreneur of many corporations involved in industrial applications of physics. I am all the more delighted by this honor from the Canadian Association of Physicists as it underlines many years of work for solving technological problems and making significant commercial products for both the market and society."

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The 2014 CAP-INO Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Applied Photonics is awarded to

Melanie Campbell, University of Waterloo, in recognition of for her unique contribution to apply the methods of polarization and adaptive optics to the understanding of eye functioning and eye diseases. Among others, her contributions to a better understanding of short-sightedness and to improve retina imaging are likely to have a major impact on the diagnosis and treatment of several eye diseases.


"I am honoured to accept this award and I am pleased that I have had the opportunity to do the research that I love. I owe a great debt to all those who offered me early training and exposure to the excitement of research across boundaries. I would also like to acknowledge the key contributions of each of my collaborators."

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The 2012 CAP-INO Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Applied Photonics is awarded to

Andreas Mandelis, University of Toronto, in recognition of for his seminal contributions to the field of photothermal and photoacoustic science and applications.


"It is a great honor for me to be awarded the 2012 CAP-INO Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Applied Photonics. As a researcher in the photoacoustic and photothermal sciences, and an entrepreneur in technologies based on these sciences, this Medal is testimony of the power of applied photonics to lead to successful industrial ventures that benefit Canadian society and strengthen Canada’s international competitiveness in advanced technologies."

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The 2010 CAP-INO Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Applied Photonics is awarded to

Xiaoyi Bao, University of Ottawa, in recognition of for her outstanding achievements on the physics, technology and applications of optical fiber sensors. Her contributions to distributed fiber sensors, based on Brillouin loss with simultaneous sensing of temperature and strain, and applied to the safety of structures, are of high relevance in these days of aging infrastructures.


"I am very happy to receive the CAP/INO Medal. I feel honored, humbled and a responsiblity for promoting research that creates new knowledge, is relevant to society, and benefits our people. I also want to encourage women to devote time and effort to science and technology. I am grateful to my colleagues and my group members who helped and encouraged me."

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The 2008 CAP-INO Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Applied Photonics is awarded to

Jacques Beaulieu, INRS, in recognition of for the invention of the transversely-excited atmospheric carbon dioxide laser as well as his work in system performance modeling.


"I am honored and flattered to have been nominated for this award. I consider this to represents also a recognition of the excellent collaboration I have received from my colleagues of the Defense Research Establishment Valcartier, the Physics department of Laval University and the accomplishments of INO in the field of Photonics."

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