Together with 700 guests, the Berthold Leibinger Stiftung celebrated the ninth presentation of its laser prizes on September 9, 2016. The jury awarded four innovation prizes and Professor Gérard Mourou received the Berthold Leibinger Zukunftspreis.

This year's event was opened by foundation founder and former managing partner of the TRUMPF Group, Professor Berthold Leibinger. He was very pleased to see that the auditorium was filled to the last seat. “The Berthold Leibinger Innovationspreis is the most important work of this foundation, and so I am grateful to see that the awards ceremony is receiving so much attention from the general public.” Following his speech, Elizabeth Rogan, Chief Executive Officer of OSA The Optical Society, gave a history of the innovations that have been made in optics and photonics over the last 100 years.