Photonics Media comes to you from onsite at the 2024 Annual General Meeting of the European Photonics Industry Consortium (EPIC). The episode features fireside chats with Elizabeth Illy and Beate Sauter, head of marketing at HÜBNER Photonics and CEO of diode laser components manufacturer Lumics, respectively. EPIC’s Carlos Lee hosts. Later, our Joel Williams discusses all things lasers for cinema with the acclaimed and award-winning Gregory Niven. "All Things Photonics"® is produced by...

Paul Prucnal, professor of electrical and computer engineering and director of the Center for Network Security and Access (CNSA) at Princeton, and Bhavin Shastri, assistant professor in the Queen’s University Department of Physics, Engineering Physics & Astronomy, discuss the neuromorphic photonics roadmap and the technology area’s prospects for success."All Things Photonics"® is produced by Photonics Media and airs biweekly, on Tuesdays. Sponsored by:PolyScience –  www.PolyScience.com...

As an endowed professor at The University of Central Florida College of Optics and Photonics (UCF CREOL), Andrea Blanco-Redondo focuses on some of the most exciting topics in photonics research. While some of her research interests are just beginning to emerge in commercial and consumer applications, others stand very solidly in the realm of R&D, eagerly awaited by industry. Our conversation spans topics in soliton photonics, slow light, and quantum topology. Also, Torsten...

Silicon photonics’ evolution from application shrouded in uncertainty to discipline harboring vast application potential has commanded the attention of those in and beyond the fields of optics and photonics. Mario Paniccia, CEO of ANELLO Photonics, recounts his own journey through the budding sector, with recollections from his 20-plus-year career at Intel and insights from his latest undertaking: ANELLO Photonics’ silicon photonics optical gyroscope."All Things Photonics"® is produced by...

Zubin Jacob, Purdue University Elmore Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, discusses the convergence of thermal imaging and artificial intelligence. The recently developed heat-assisted detection and ranging (HADAR) technique offers performance advantages in low-light environments, in which other modalities face drawbacks. Also, we speak with TRAQC’s Mariia Zhuldybina and Benjamin Dringoli. The company recently took first place in the 2024 SPIE Startup Challenge....

The conceptualization, development, and rollout of Thorlabs’ Mobile Photonics Lab Experience is the ultimate story in optics and photonics accessibility. Thorlabs’ vice president for global sales and business development, Michael Mohammadi, and director of photonics education, Bill Warger, share insights into Thorlabs’ industry-acclaimed mobile resource as a vehicle for photonics education and technology outreach."All Things Photonics"® is produced by Photonics Media and airs biweekly, on...

Integrated Photonics luminary Joyce Poon caps Season 8 of "All Things Photonics" with a discussion and status update on the ascent of integrated photonics. From sustained high-level R&D to commercial prospects, 2024 is poised to be the year of the PIC. Poon offers insight into optical computing, integrated sensing, and datacenter AI."All Things Photonics"® is produced by Photonics Media and airs biweekly, on Tuesdays.

True understanding is accomplished only through precise measurement. Though practitioners in the field deploy numerous modalities to obtain this essential information, remote sensing incorporates a spectrum of photonics technologies that is as broad and diverse as it is ubiquitous and effective. Joseph Shaw, director of the Optical Technology Center at Montana State University, overviews remote sensing technology, with a focus on core and novel applications, as well as core methods. In a...

The almighty nanoparticle known as the quantum dot is enjoying its moment in the sun — after innovations involving its discovery and development earned three photochemists a share of the Nobel Prize in chemistry earlier this fall. Peter Lodahl, head of the Quantum Photonics Group at the University of Copenhagen/NielsBohr Institute, director of the Danish National Research Foundation Center for Hybrid Quantum Networks, and founder of Sparrow Quantum, sheds light on the durability of quantum...

About 20 years ago, Hongxing Jiang and Jingyu Lin published a paper describing the microLED. Since the publishing of that seminal work, microLEDs have seen commercialization in automotive and industrial lighting applications, but for much of that time, Jiang and Lin’s envisioned application in display technology had been simmering on the backburner. Now, the technology is becoming a household name. With the holiday season approaching, consumers shopping for a new TV are noticing that the top...

Peter O’Brien, director of the PIXAPP Photonics Packaging Pilot Line and head of the photonics packaging group at the Tyndall Institute, overviews the current state of integrated photonics technologies, as well as core considerations in the sector. Focus is given to packaging, heterogeneous integration, and dynamic collaboration. David McGovern, senior business development manager with the Irish Photonic Integration Centre (IPIC [Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Photonics]) and...

“All Things Photonics” broadcasts from SPIE Optifab 2023 in Rochester, N.Y. In this episode from the heart of the optics industry, we speak with Chunlei Guo, from the University of Rochster’s Institute of Optics, and Carolyn McMorran, from central Florida’s Valencia College. Guo and his collaborators recently advanced their acclaimed fano-resonant optical coating technology, and our conversation spotlights the advance and its significance. McMorran is leading Valencia College’s new optics...

Photonic technologies like lab-on-a-chip are taking out a lot of the head-scratching and tedium that goes along with traditional diagnostic methods, giving patients and clinicians access to technology that is cheaper, quicker, and often more reliable. Andrea Armani, the Ray Irani Chair in Engineering and Materials Science at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, is working at the forefront of this exciting technology and others that promise to revolutionize the world of medicine. In this...

Longtime photonics market analyst and current industry adviser Tom Hausken delivers his expert insights into top-of-mind trends and drivers for the photonics sector. The prevalence of AI in and for photonics technologies permeates a conversation that also explores integrated photonics workforce development, government and policy perspectives, and technological competitiveness.Sponsored by:Teledyne Judson Technologies — www.TeledyneJudson.com"All Things Photonics"® is produced by Photonics...

The Precise Advanced Technologies and Health Systems for Underserved Populations initiative, or PATHS-UP, aims to integrate engineering research and education with technological innovation to transform national prosperity, health, and security. The National Science Foundation-funded collaboration also extends into industry, to ensure that positive R&D outcomes ascend into use in the wider community. In a panel discussion, host Jake Saltzman is joined by Samuel Mabbott, assistant professor...

Microelectronics technology innovation and, more notably, recent legislation have brought to the fore the need for a unified strategy to ensure sustained positive outcomes in today’s semiconductor environment. Walter Burgess, co-CEO, Sales & Engineering at Power Technology Inc., is helping to spearhead many of the efforts that business and technology leaders in Arkansas are commencing to ensure they can best-leverage opportunities stemming from 2022’s Chips and Science Act. In this...

As separate disciplines, quantum science and integrated photonics are pushing the bounds of possibility in communication science, compute, data processing, and more. In tandem, the two realms are highly complementary. Matt Eichenfield, the SPIE Endowed Chair in Optical Sciences and associate professor of optical sciences at the University of Arizona Wyant College of Optical Sciences, spotlights quantum integrated photonics with a focus on applications and a look into the future of the...

The changing nature of the "optics shop" — and, more broadly, its role in the optics and photonics industry today — is an effective gauge for tracking how optics workforce development is aligned to the ever-evolving needs of the industry. Recounting his own 40-plus-year professional journey, Paul Melone, global optics manufacturing director at Thorlabs, discusses his company’s ties to AmeriCOM (American Center for Optics Manufacturing) and how Thorlabs aims to identify and cultivate optics...

The brain trust of holographic extended reality startup Swave Photonics discusses the company’s scalable holographic chip technology. Company founder and chief product officer Theodore Marescaux and CEO Mike Noonen outline Swave’s diffractive photonics technology and inform on the company’s future plans following its first-place finish in the 2023 SPIE Startup Challenge at Photonics West 2023.   “All Things Photonics” ® is produced by Photonics Media and airs biweekly, on Tuesdays.

With its goal to cultivate and foster photonics-driven progress in the Netherlands, PhotonDelta today is a burgeoning cross-border ecosystem of photonic chip technology organizations. Around the central technology area of integrated photonics, the ecosystem's current aim is to leverage decades of expertise and dozens of strategic partnerships to create a production capacity of 100,000+ wafer per year by 2030. PhotonDelta CEO Ewit Roos discusses the mission and vision of the organization amid...

Three-and-a-half months after December 2022's breakthrough experimental result that yielded fusion ignition, Jean-Michel Di Nicola, chief engineer of laser systems at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) and acting program co-director for laser science and system engineering at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, provides an update on sustained progress in fusion science. Di Nicola takes listeners inside NIF, and he offers his insights on next steps in big science."All Things...

Rohit Bhargava, director of the Cancer Center at Illinois, follows his Photonics West 2023 Optical Biopsy Conference keynote with a discussion on increased utility in infrared spectroscopic imaging. Discussion points include the advent of the quantum cascade laser, the role of artificial intelligence and machine learning for optimized workflows, and optimizations in instrumentation leading to improved outcomes in clinical settings. “All Things Photonics”® is produced by Photonics Media and...

In a world characterized by massive quantities of (often unusable) information sources, many facets of society have great need to turn raw data into an actionable tool. Bruno Sanguinetti, co-founder of Dotphoton, discusses his company’s solution that aims to harness the full potential of image data, taking data in its raw form and transforming it for the benefit of the medical, aerospace and defense, and industrial sectors. Where Dotphoton fits among the confluence of distinct technologies...

Isiah Warner, Boyd Professor and Emeritus Philip W. West Professor, Analytical & Environmental Chemistry, and former vice president for strategic initiatives at Louisiana State University (LSU), reflects on 20th- and 21st-century milestones in fluorescence science, as well as his own contributions to academic mentorship. The acclaimed spectroscopist has helped bring LSU’s total of African American Ph.D. graduates in chemistry from six prior to his arrival at the university, to nearly 100...