| John Zoutendyk | 1968 | Jet Propulsion Laboratory, retired |
| Jean-Pierre Laussade | 1969 | Vice President of Sony Semiconductor America |
| Lee Casperson | 1971 | Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of North Carolina, Charlotte | David Hall | 1971 | Northrop Grumman Corp. | Stephen Kurtin | 1971 | Lane Research | Uri Ganiel | 1971 visitor | Professor Emeritus, Department of Science Teaching, The Weizmann Institute of Science |
| James Pearson | 1972 | Director of Research and Administration, College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida |
| David Vahey | 1973 | Accuray |
| Michiharu Nakamura | 1973 visitor | Executive Vice President and Executive Officer, Head of R&D, Hitachi Corporation |
| Jack Comly | 1974 | Los Alamos National Labs |
| Harold Stoll | 1974 | |
| C. P. Lee | 1974 | National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan |
| Abraham Katzir | 1974 | Professor of Physics, Tel Aviv University |
| Elsa Garmire | 1974 postdoc | Professor of Engineering , Dartmouth College |
| Avraham Gover | 1976 | Professor of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University |
| Alexis Livanos | 1977 postdoc | Northrop Grumman, VP Space Technology |
| Pochi Yeh | 1978 | Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Willie Ng | 1978 | Manager of the Photonics Department, Principal Research Scientist, Hughes Research Laboratories |
| Jeffrey Shellan | 1978 | The Optical Sciences Company |
| John Auyeung | 1979 | Chromux Technologies |
| Dan Fekete | 1979 | Professor of Physics, Technion, Isreal |
| Chi-Shain Hong | 1979 | Luxxon Technology |
| Richard Moyer | 1980 | Northrop Grumman |
| Chun-Ching Shih | 1980 | Northrop Grumman |
| Isreal Ury | 1980 | Founder and Vice President ORTEL Corporation |
| David Pepper | 1980 | Malibu Scientific Consulting |
| Pinchas Agmon | 1980 | Laserop |
| Joseph Katz | 1981 | Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs |
| Baruch Fischer | 1981 postdoc | Professor of Electrical Engineering, Technion, Isreal |
| Pei-Chuang Chen | 1981 | Vice President, Wafer Fabrication, ORTEL Corporation/Emcore |
| Kam Lau | 1981 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley |
| Daniel Wilt | 1981 | Group Supervisor, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory |
| Nadav Bar-Chaim | 1981 postdoc | Vice President ORTEL Corporation |
| Henry Blauvelt | 1982 | Xponent Photonics Inc. |
| Thomas Koch | 1982 | Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor of Physics, Lehigh University |
| Joseph Nilsen | 1982 | Physicist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| Shlomo Margalit | 1982 visitor | Founder and director of MRV |
| Eli Kapon | 1983 postdoc | Professor of Physics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Christoph Harder | 1983 | Bookham Technology |
| Paul Yu | 1983 | Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of California, San Diego |
| Liew-Chuang Chiu | 1983 | Northrop Grumman |
| Mark Cronin-Golomb | 1983 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University |
| Jeffrey White | 1985 | Laser and Spectroscopy Facility Director, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| Kerry Vahala | 1985 | Professor of Applied Physics, Caltech |
| Anders Larsson | 1985 visitor | Chalmers University of Technology |
| John Stephen Smith | 1986 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Founder and President, Beckmen Displays, Berkeley, California |
| Norman Kwong | 1986 | Archcom, VSK Photonics |
| Robert Lang | 1986 | Origami artist, mathematician, and author |
| Yasuhiko Arakawa | 1986 visitor | Professor, University of Tokyo |
| Kazuo Kyuma | 1986 visitor | Director of the Central Research Laboratory, Mitsubishi Electric Co. |
| George Rakuljic | 1987 | Executive VP, Kotura Inc. |
| Pamela Derry | 1989 | Boeing |
| Michael Mittelstein | 1989 | |
| Yasuo Tomita | 1989 | Professor of Electronics Engineering, University of Electro-Communications, Japan |
| Joel Paslaski | 1990 | Xponent Photonics |
| David Mehuys | 1990 | Infinera |
| Koichi Sayano | 1990 | Research and Development Laboratories |
| Hal Zarem | 1990 | President and CEO, Silicon Light Machines |
| Victor Leyva | 1991 | Staff Scientist, ORTEL Corporation |
| Sidney Kan | 1991 | |
| Steven Sanders | 1992 | Silicon Light Machines |
| Charles Neugebauer | 1993 | ST Microelectronics |
| Rudolf Hofmeister | 1993 | Finisar |
| Ilan Grave | 1993 | Professor, Department of Physics/Engineering, Elizabethtown College |
| Lars Eng | 1993 | Finisar |
| Thomas Schrans | 1994 | Technology Consultant |
| Bin Zhao | 1994 | Manager, Analog/Mixed-Signal IC Design, Skyworks Solutions |
| Gert Cauwenberghs | 1994 | Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University |
| Moti Segev | 1994 postdoc | Professor of Physics, Technion, Visiting Professor of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University |
| Gilad Almogy | 1995 | Vice President, Applied Materials |
| John Iannelli | 1995 | Staff Scientist, ORTEL Corporation/Emcore |
| Anthony Keywitsch | 1995 | Vice President, Arroyo Optics, Santa Monica, California |
| John Kitching | 1995 | Physicist, National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| Ali Shakouri | 1995 | Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Volnei Pedroni | 1995 | Federal Center of Technological Education of Paran |
| John O'Brien | 1996 | Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California |
| Sergei Orlov | 1996 | Research Associate, Stanford University |
| Randal Salvatore | 1996 | Infinera |
| Aharon Agranat | 1997 visitor | Professor of Applied Physics, Hebrew University |
| Jing Feng | 1997 | Woodfield Enterprise Solutions |
| William Marshall | 1997 | Epilimnion Technology consultant |
| Boaz Salik | 1997 | Consultant |
| Yuanjian Xu | 1997 | Boeing |
| Matthew McAdams | 1998 | CEO of Senware Inc. |
| Doruk Engin | 1998 | Optical Air Systems |
| Xiaolin Tong | 1998 | Technology Consultant |
| Reginald Lee | 2000 | Research Scientist, Orbits Lightwave |
| Eva Peral | 2000 | Ortel/Emcore |
| Dan Provenzano | 2001 | Production Engineer, Orbits Lightwave |
| Roger Koumans | 2001 | Luxtera |
| Avishay Eyal | 2002 (postdoc) | Professor of Engineering, Tel Aviv University |
| Shayan Mookherjea | 2003 | Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego |
| George Ouyang | 2004 (Engineer's Degree) | Wavien Inc. |
| Yong Xu | 2001 PhD, 2004 postdoc | Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech |
| Will Green | 2005 | Research Staff Member, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center |
| George Paloczi | 2005 | Research Scientist, Agility Communications |
| Yanyi Huang | 2005 postdoc | Associate Professor of Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, College of Engineering, Peking University |
| Koby Scheuer | 2006 postdoc | Senior Lecturer, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University |
| Philip Chak | 2006 postdoc | Quantitative analyst |
| John Choi | 2007 | Postdoctoral researcher, National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| Joyce Poon | 2007 | Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto |