Awarded the Boris Pregel Award for Applied Science and Technology (1985) by the New York Academy of Sciences, the R.W. Wood Prize from OSA (1989) for development of the optical fiber optical pulse compressor, and the William F. Meggers Award from OSA (2003) for development and applications of THz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS). Such THz-TDS spectrometers are now operating in more than 100 laboratories worldwide.