The list of awards presented to Ocean Optics for innovative photonics product introductions and business practices grows each year. We are honored to have been recognized by the industry's top organizations, trade publications and events -- and especially by you, our valued customers. 

Ocean Optics was named among The Photonics Circle of Excellence Awards winners for 2000 in recognition of our Palm-SPEC Spectrophotometer. The annual awards honor companies and individuals for refusing to accept the status quo and pushing the limits of technology to develop new photonics products and processes.
 

	Mahmoud Shahriari receives the Food Innovation Award from the Institute of Food Technologists for his work on the RedEyeTM Oxygen Sensor Patch.
	Ocean Optics wins the coveted Photonics Circle of Excellence Award for its LIBS2000+ Spectrometer System in 2003.
	Ocean Optics accepts the 2000 Photonics Circle of Excellence Award for the Palm-SPEC Spectrophoto-meter in San Jose, Calif.
	Ocean Optics Design Engineer Rob Waterbury is presented with the 2000 Photonics Circle of Excellence Award.

Product Awards

2007

RedEye^TM Oxygen Sensor Patch

• Food Innovation Award from the Institute of Food Technologists

2003

LIBS2000+ Laser-induced Breakdown Spectrometer

• Photonics Circle of Excellence Award

2002

EDS2000 Endospore Detection System

• Best of Sensors Expo Anaheim

2001

USB2000 Miniature Fiber Optic Spectrometer

• Finalist, Laser Focus World Commercial Technology Achievement Awards

2000

CHEM2000 Spectrophotometer

• Laboratory Equipment Reader Choice Awards

Palm-SPEC Spectrophotometer

• The Photonics Circle of Excellence Awards

• Best of Sensors Expo Anaheim

Raman Systems R-2001 Spectrometer

• Lightfair Best of Show

1999

CHEM2000-UV-VIS Spectrophotometer

• Laser and Optronics Technology Awards

FOXY Fiber Optic Sensors

• R&D Magazine R&D 100 Award

1998

Raman Systems R-2001 Spectrometer

• Laser and Optronics Technology Awards

S2000 Miniature Fiber Optic Spectrometer

• Finalist, Laser Focus World Commercial Technology Achievement Awards

1996

FullWave Spectrometer

• Laboratory Equipment Readers' Choice Award
  

1995

PC1000 Miniature Fiber Optic Spectrometer

• Laboratory Equipment Readers' Choice Award 
  

1994

PC1000 Miniature Fiber Optic Spectrometer

• Laboratory Equipment Reader's Choice Award 

1993

Long Trace Profilometer

• The Photonics Circle of Excellence Awards

• R&D Magazine R&D 100 Award

S1000 Miniature Fiber Optic Spectrometer

• First Place, The Photonics Circle of Excellence Awards (recognized by Photonics Spectra for developing the best new product of the year)

• First Choice, Laboratory Equipment Reader's Choice Award

1992

S1000 Miniature Fiber Optic Spectrometer

• First Choice, Laboratory Equipment Top 10 Readers' Choice

• First Choice, Fiberoptic Product News Best New Product of the Year
  

Business Awards

2000

• Honorable Mention, The Blue Chip Enterprise Award (presented by Mass Mutual Financing Group)
  

1999

• Runner Up, Upper Pinellas Business Week Large Business of the Year Awards

• Finalist, Florida Entrepreneur of the Year Awards
• Top 50, Florida 100
• 15^th Place, Tampa Bay Technology Fast 50
  

1997

• 12^th Place, Tampa Bay Technology Fast 50
• Top 500, National Fast 500
  

1996

• 10^th place, 1996 Suncoast Technology Florida Fast 50
• Top 500, National Fast 500
  

1994

• Certificate of Achievement, awarded to 1994 SBIR Technology of the Year Nominees for developing new technology through the Small Business Innovation Research Program
  

1993

• United States Department of Energy Small Business Innovation Research Program, presented to Michael J. Morris and Leeward J. Bean of Ocean Optics, Inc. for successful completion of a company business plan under the department’s 1993 Commercialization Assistance Project
• Certificate of Appreciation, from the Office of the Governor, State of Florida, in recognition of participation in the Governor’s New Product Award Program, which honors new product developers for their innovative use of engineering principles and materials, improved functions and savings that benefit the State of Florida's economy
  

1991

• Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant by the U.S. Department of Energy, for continued development of commercial optical pH sensor
  

1990

• National Association of Management and Technical Assistance Centers Project of the Year, awarded to Southern Technology Application Center for pHish Doctor, Inc.

1989

• Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant by the U.S. Department of Energy, for development of novel optical pH sensor