All Things Photonics

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Fiber Optics and Fiber Lasers (With Sir David Payne) and Time and Frequency (With Tara Fortier)

2024-12-1701:17:17

In season ten’s finale, "All Things Photonics" speaks with its first knighted guest: Sir David Payne, Director of the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton. Sir David is recognized as a pioneer in fiber laser research, having broken the kilowatt output barrier, and in fiber optics research, where he contributed to the development of the erbium-doped fiber amplifier. Later, we speak with Tara Fortier, project leader at the Time and Frequency Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Fortier’s research is focused on precision optical and microwave metrology, and the development of optical clocks. "All Things Photonics"® is produced by Photonics Media and airs biweekly, on Tuesdays. Sponsored by: PolyScience – www.PolyScience.com Thorlabs Inc. – www.Thorlabs.com Avantes – www.Avantes.com LightPath Technologies Inc. – www.LightPath.com

Electro-Optic Polymers (with Michael Lebby) and Miniaturized Particle Accelerators (with Stephen Milton)

2024-12-1051:08

Lightwave Logic CEO Michael Lebby discusses his company’s electro-optic polymer technology, what it means for the data center and artificial intelligence industries, and his company’s path to commercial success. Stephen Milton, Vice President of Accelerator Science at TAU Systems provides a look at his company’s miniaturized particle accelerators, their expected uses, and what they could mean for the future of research. "All Things Photonics"® is produced by Photonics Media and airs biweekly, on Tuesdays. Sponsored by: PolyScience – www.PolyScience.com Thorlabs Inc. – www.Thorlabs.com Avantes – www.Avantes.com LightPath Technologies Inc. – www.LightPath.com

Optics Manufacturing in America (with Dave Shelton) and a Primer on Metamaterials (with Andrea Alù)

2024-12-0301:19:17

David Shelton, President and CEO of AmeriCOM, discusses ongoing efforts to strengthen the United States’ optical manufacturing industry and how they relate to defense and national security. Andrea Alù, Einstein Professor of Physics at The City University of New York, provides a primer on metamaterials, including ongoing research efforts and hot topics, and a look to the future. "All Things Photonics"® is produced by Photonics Media and airs biweekly, on Tuesdays. Sponsored by: PolyScience – www.PolyScience.com Thorlabs Inc. – www.Thorlabs.com Avantes – www.Avantes.com LightPath Technologies Inc. – www.LightPath.com

The Future of Biophotonics (with Ji-Xin Chen) and Dynamic Growth in Silicon Photonics (with Ronnen Lovinger)

2024-11-1944:49

Ji-Xin Cheng, professor at Boston University, discusses the future of biophotonics and the challenges it still faces. Cheng shares more on what drives him to continue his research in medical photonics. Ronnen Lovinger, CEO of silicon photonics optical interconnects technology developer DustPhotonics, offers expert insights into the growth of the technology sector, as well as into inflection points at which the technology is arriving. "All Things Photonics"® is produced by Photonics Media and airs biweekly, on Tuesdays. Sponsored by: PolyScience – www.PolyScience.com Thorlabs Inc. – www.Thorlabs.com Avantes – www.Avantes.com LightPath Technologies Inc. – www.LightPath.com

Chalcogenides Continued and PlanOpSim — With Lieven Penninck and Sam Rubin

2024-11-1251:16

Lieven Penninc, founder of planar optics modeling software developer PlanOpSim, offers perspective on the meta-optics technology boom. Sam Rubin, CEO of LightPath Technologies, picks up the conversation from our previous episode on chalcogenide glasses, alternate optical materials, and applications — especially those in the infrared. "All Things Photonics"® is produced by Photonics Media and airs biweekly, on Tuesdays. Sponsored by: PolyScience – www.PolyScience.com Thorlabs Inc. – www.Thorlabs.com Avantes – www.Avantes.com LightPath Technologies Inc. – www.LightPath.com

Wavefront Phase Imaging and Chalcogenide Glass — with Javier Elizalde and Kathleen Richardson

2024-10-2901:02:19

Senior editor Joe Kuczynski speaks with Javier Elizalde, COO of Wooptix, about the company’s wavefront phase imaging technology. Following that, EPIC’s Antonio Castelo catches up with Tim Kunze, CEO of Fusion Bionic, a startup specialized in the creation of advanced surface features via laser patterning. Closing out the episode, Jake Saltzman has a conversation with Kathleen Richardson of the University of Central Florida’s College of Optics and Photonics about her work with chalcogenide glass. "All Things Photonics"® is produced by Photonics Media and airs biweekly, on Tuesdays. Sponsored by: PolyScience – www.PolyScience.com Thorlabs Inc. – www.Thorlabs.com Avantes – www.Avantes.com LightPath Technologies Inc. – www.LightPath.com

All About Optical Interconnects — with Terry Thorn

2024-10-1530:58

Terry Thorn, vice president commercial operations at optical interconnect solutions developer Ayar Labs, discusses the ever-evolving road to overcoming AI system bottlenecks, and how optical solutions are poised to provide answers. Industry-specific challenges, plus Ayar’s own innovations, are spotlighted in this exclusive interview. "All Things Photonics"® is produced by Photonics Media and airs biweekly, on Tuesdays. Sponsored by: PolyScience – www.PolyScience.com Thorlabs Inc. – www.Thorlabs.com Avantes – www.Avantes.com LightPath Technologies Inc. – www.LightPath.com

Exploring the Potential of Silicon Photonics and PICs — with Anthony Yu and John Jost

2024-10-0137:41

In the inaugural episode of Season 10, we discuss GlobalFoundries’ Fotonix project and the potential of silicon photonics with Anthony Yu, Vice President of GlobalFoundries’ Computer and Wired Infrastructure Business Unit. Later, we speak with John Jost, co-founder of Enlightra, a Swiss startup creating chip-scale optical frequency combs. Jost speaks to the applications of these miniaturized devices as they relate to telecommunications, and perhaps in the future, scaled-down optical clocks. "All Things Photonics"® is produced by Photonics Media and airs biweekly, on Tuesdays. Sponsored by: PolyScience – www.PolyScience.com Thorlabs Inc. – www.Thorlabs.com Avantes – www.Avantes.com LightPath Technologies Inc. – www.LightPath.com

Durable Quantum Cascade Lasers: Applications and Deployments

2024-06-0439:18

The episode begins with on-site interviews from EPIC’s Technology Meeting for Photonics in XR, held in Helsinki, Finland. Guests include Stefan Steiner, CEO of LightTrans International; Erhan Ercan, head of global business development at Morphotonics; and Bharath Rajagopalan, director of strategic marketing at STMicroelectronics. EPIC’s Jérémy Picot-Clémente leads these chats. In our feature interview, news editor Joel Williams speaks with Jason Sorger, senior field service and applications engineer at DRS Daylight Solutions, about market opportunities for durable quantum cascade laser technology in sectors including optical communications, quantum, and infrared spectroscopy. "All Things Photonics"® is produced by Photonics Media and airs biweekly, on Tuesdays. Sponsored by: PolyScience – www.PolyScience.com Lumencor Inc. – www.Lumencor.com

Countermeasure Detection and Ranging Technologies — With Paul McManamon

2024-05-2156:48

Optics and photonics luminary Paul McManamon is our guest for a discussion on advanced ranging and detection capabilities across environments and applications areas. McManamon, a past president of SPIE, is current president and CTO of Exciting Technology, and a fellow of the Directed Energy Professional Society. Also in this episode, a discussion with Alasdair Pentland and Andy Bell of terahertz solutions firm TeraView. "All Things Photonics"® is produced by Photonics Media and airs biweekly, on Tuesdays. Sponsored by: PolyScience – www.PolyScience.com Lumencor Inc. – www.Lumencor.com

Live from the EPIC Annual General Meeting and Summit 2024 — With Beate Sauter, Elizabeth Illy

2024-05-0756:44

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 Photonics Media and airs biweekly, on Tuesdays. Sponsored by: PolyScience – www.PolyScience.com Lumencor Inc. – www.Lumencor.com

The Neuromorphic Photonics Roadmap — With Paul Prucnal and Bhavin Shastri

2024-04-2334:04

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 Lumencor Inc. – www.Lumencor.com

The Almighty Soliton — With Andrea Blanco-Redondo

2024-04-0946:22

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 Vahrenkamp and Matthias Trinker of the management team at ficonTEC, discuss ELAS Technologies Investment — a capital firm spurring high-tech business success at global scale. "All Things Photonics"® is produced by Photonics Media and airs biweekly, on Tuesdays. Sponsored by: PolyScience – www.PolyScience.com Lumencor Inc. – www.Lumencor.com

Inside Silicon Photonics — With Mario Paniccia

2024-03-2657:09

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 Photonics Media and airs biweekly, on Tuesdays. Sponsored by: PolyScience – www.PolyScience.com Lumencor Inc. – www.Lumencor.com

Thermal Imaging and AI: Introducing HADAR — With Zubin Jacob

2024-03-1242:47

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. TRAQC’s solution leverages THz light, offering real-time inspection capabilities for printed and additive electronics. "All Things Photonics"® is produced by Photonics Media and airs biweekly, on Tuesdays. Sponsored by: PolyScience – www.PolyScience.com Lumencor Inc. – www.Lumencor.com

The Mobile Photonics Lab Experience — With Michael Mohammadi and Bill Warger

2024-02-2727:50

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 Tuesdays. Sponsored by: PolyScience – www.PolyScience.com Lumencor Inc. – www.Lumencor.com

Low Loss — and High Gain — in Silicon Photonics — With Joyce Poon

2024-01-0946:37

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.

Sense and Measure — With Joseph Shaw and Sanathana Konugolu

2024-01-0201:08:41

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 bonus segment, Sanathana Konugolu Venkata Sekar, cofounder of BioPixS, discusses the company’s biophotonics phantom technology platform. "All Things Photonics"® is produced by Photonics Media and airs biweekly, on Tuesdays.

Quantum Dot, Quantum Compute — With Peter Lodahl

2023-12-1235:00

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 dots. Sparrow, a developer of quantum light-matter interfaces, has pioneered quantum dot-based technology to support the pursuit of at-scale photonic quantum computing. Sponsored by: Block Engineering — www.blockeng.com Ximea GmbH — www.ximea.com "All Things Photonics"® is produced by Photonics Media and airs biweekly, on Tuesdays.

MicroLEDs: A Marriage of Brightness, Efficiency, and Possibility — With Hongxing Jiang and Jingyu Lin

2023-11-2844:40

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 of the line isn’t just populated with OLED models. While manufacturing challenges remain, microLEDs offer a wonderful marriage of efficiency, brightness, and sheer possibility, even beyond display and lighting applications. In this episode, Jiang and Lin discuss the path from paper to commercialization, and the road ahead and what possibilities the future holds. Sponsored by: Block Engineering — www.blockeng.com Ximea GmbH — www.ximea.com "All Things Photonics"® is produced by Photonics Media and airs biweekly, on Tuesdays.

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