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All Things Photonics — 142 episodes
What OEM Photonics Buyers Actually Evaluate During Vendor Selection — Marco Pigozzi, Optotune
Machine Vision, Food Tracking, and Cyclospora – Robb Robles, Zebra Technologies
Recognizing Talent and Sharing Wisdom – Fardin Ahmed, Teddi C. Laurin Scholarship Winner
The Rise of the Metalens – John Fijol, Myrias Optics
Sunlight Could Reduce Plastic Waste and Create Clean Fuel – Xiao Lu, University of Adelaide
Reimagining Optical and Photonic Design With Ultrafast Lasers – Jie Qiao, Rochester Institute of Technology
Advanced Imaging Blasts Off with Artemis II — With Petko Dinev, Imperx
Proposed Budget Cuts Threaten America’s Place in Scientific Research – With Jennifer O'Bryan
A High-Speed Heterogeneous Lithium Tantalate Silicon Photonics Platform — Featuring Bart Kuyken
Spotlight: Material Innovation in the Spotlight — With Xavier Lafosse
The Photonic Ecosystem of Counter Unmanned Systems — With Ganesh Balakrishnan
The Hidden Cost of AI — With Michael Förtsch, CEO of Q.Ant
Spotlight: All Things Gratings — With Dave Ventola, Omega Optical
In Association With the Journal Optica, Protecting Quantum Data From Turbulence — With Aaron Cardoso
Spotlight: Optica, Research, and Quantum with Prem Kumar
Advancing Modern Medicine Through Laser Spectroscopy – With Prof. Igor Lednev, University at Albany
Science in the U.S. after 1 Year of Trump — With Dan Garisto, Freelance Physics Journalist
Spotlight: An Exclusive Conversation with Stephen Fantone
The Future of XR is Laser Driven — A Panel Discussion with the AR Alliance
Post-Quantum Optical Security – With Dan Sadot, Founder & CEO of CyberRidge
In Association With the Journal Optica, Breakthrough Chip-Scale Magnetometer — With Paolo Pintus
National Security and Laser Communication — With Dalius Petrulionis
Spotlight: Previewing Photonics West 2026 With Bob Hainsey from SPIE
Reaching the Limit of Human Perception — With Kunli Xiong
In Association with Optica, Imaging with Freeform Optics — With Jannick Rolland
Spotlight: Reflections on PIC Summit 2025
The Global Race to Commercializing Fusion Energy — With Thomas Forner
Optical Biosensor Detects MPOX — With Partha Ray and Mete Aslan
Bringing AR/VR to the Front Lines – With Rob Schultz
Photonic Origami: The Art of Folding Glass With Lasers — With Tal Carmon
The Power of Inertial Confinement Fusion — With Omar Hurricane and Mike Campbell
Spotlight: Hollow Core Fiber: Inside a Surging Technology
OIF at ECOC 2025 — With Nathan Tracy and Mike Klempa
Spotlight: Cornerstone Silicon Photonics Capabilities With Graham Reed
Battling Heart Disease with Photonics – With Yuqi Zhou
Summer Camp in the Sunshine State — with Mike McKee
Spotlight: Quantum Nonlinear Photonics 101 with Yannick Salamin
Next Generation of Phase Change Materials and Scientists — With Jasper Stackawitz
Spotlight: Inspiring the Next Generation of Photonics Professionals With Garrett Cole
Spectroscopy in the MIR — With Søren Friis
Holographic Displays: From the War Room to the Living Room — With Wally Haas
Brightening the Future of Display Technologies — With Reza Chaji
Spotlight: All Eyes on Munich for Laser World of Photonics 2025 With Exhibition Director Anke Odouli
Pushing the Bounds of Industrial Laser Performance — With Aldas Juronis
Spotlight: Today’s Federal Policies Shape Tomorrow’s Photonics Landscape with Rep. Joe Morelle
Laser-Powered Time Travel — With Physicist and Professor Emeritus, Ron Mallett
Closing Connection Gaps through Free Space Optical Communications — With Tom Chaffee, Jim Olson, and Wayne Knox
Spotlight: Trade War Threatens Global Semiconductor Industry — With Lita Shon-Roy, President/CEO and Founder of TECHET
Laser-Based Additive Manufacturing Steps into the Blue — With Lukas Hoppe
Graphene: At the Intersection of Photonics and 2D Materials Science — With Andy MacInnes
Spotlight: Frank Winkler, Professor for Neuro-Oncology, Heidelberg University
Directed Energy: Into the Battlefield and Out of this World — with Martin Richardson
Placing “Test” on the Integrated Photonics Value Chain — With Iñigo Artundo
Spotlight: John Ballato, Professor of Materials and Science Engineering at Clemson University
The Role of Materials in Optical Networking — With Brad Booth
Spotlight: Nick Harris, CEO and Founder of Lightmatter
Microelectronics Packaging Through a Photonics Lens — With Abdul Rahim
Spotlight: Tara Fortier, Project Leader at NIST
Spotlight: Dr. Andrew Brown, Senior Director SPIE
Fiber Optics and Fiber Lasers (With Sir David Payne) and Time and Frequency (With Tara Fortier)
Electro-Optic Polymers (with Michael Lebby) and Miniaturized Particle Accelerators (with Stephen Milton)
Optics Manufacturing in America (with Dave Shelton) and a Primer on Metamaterials (with Andrea Alù)
The Future of Biophotonics (with Ji-Xin Chen) and Dynamic Growth in Silicon Photonics (with Ronnen Lovinger)
Chalcogenides Continued and PlanOpSim — With Lieven Penninck and Sam Rubin
Wavefront Phase Imaging and Chalcogenide Glass — with Javier Elizalde and Kathleen Richardson
All About Optical Interconnects — with Terry Thorn
Exploring the Potential of Silicon Photonics and PICs — with Anthony Yu and John Jost
Durable Quantum Cascade Lasers: Applications and Deployments
Countermeasure Detection and Ranging Technologies — With Paul McManamon
Live from the EPIC Annual General Meeting and Summit 2024 — With Beate Sauter, Elizabeth Illy
The Neuromorphic Photonics Roadmap — With Paul Prucnal and Bhavin Shastri
The Almighty Soliton — With Andrea Blanco-Redondo
Inside Silicon Photonics — With Mario Paniccia
Thermal Imaging and AI: Introducing HADAR — With Zubin Jacob
The Mobile Photonics Lab Experience — With Michael Mohammadi and Bill Warger
Low Loss — and High Gain — in Silicon Photonics — With Joyce Poon
Sense and Measure — With Joseph Shaw and Sanathana Konugolu
Quantum Dot, Quantum Compute — With Peter Lodahl
MicroLEDs: A Marriage of Brightness, Efficiency, and Possibility — With Hongxing Jiang and Jingyu Lin
Influence in Photonic Integration — With Peter O’Brien and David McGovern
Live From Optifab 2023 — With Chunlei Guo and Carolyn McMorran
Nanomedicine: Out of the Lab and Into the Field — With Andrea Armani
Beyond the Advent: Photonics and AI — With Tom Hausken
PATHS-UP: The Commercialization of Raman Instrumentation at the Point of Care — With Samuel Mabbott, Michael Matthews, and Cyril Soliman
Opportunity and Strategy in Semiconductors — With Walter Burgess
Quantum Integrated Photonics: Drivers and Outcomes — With Matt Eichenfield (5/16/2023)
Evolution of the Optics Shop, Workforce, and Industry — With Paul Melone (Thorlabs)
Toward a Viable Holography — Scalable and Cost-Effective — With Theodore Marescaux and Mike Noonen
The Carrot and the Stick — Insights from PhotonDelta — With Ewit Roos
Checking in From NIF — Laser-Driven Fusion — With Jean-Michel Di Nicola (3/21/2023)
Utility in Infrared Imaging — A Biophotonics Perspective — With Rohit Bhargava
Big Image Data: Unveiling the Power of Raw Images — With Bruno Sanguinetti
Guided by Light: A Life in Fluorescence — With Isiah Warner
The Ascension of Meta-Optics — With Rob Devlin
The Utility of Lidar — Flood Prevention and Revelations from a Maya Settlement
From Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science 2022
Biomedical Optics — The BioPhotonics Conference Episode with Brian Pogue
Meta-Optics Fabrication and Commercialization — with Theodor Nielsen
Ultrashort-Pulse X-Ray Sources and Laser Research — With Donna Strickland, Francois Légaré, And Heide Ibrahim
Brain Imaging and Measurement — All Things Neurophotonics With David Boas
The LaserNetUS Consortium — A Podcast of High Intensity with Chandra Breanne Curry
Photonic Supercomputing — With Michael Hochberg and Marcus Gomez
Advances in Terahertz Optoelectronics — With Mona Jarrahi
Inside the Vintage Laser Archives — With Bob Hess
Directed Energy Arrays — And Nematodes in Space Part II — With Philip Lubin and Joel Rothman
Displays, Waveguide Optics — And Nematodes in Space? — With Jonas Zeuner and Joel Rothman
Explorations of the Quantum Cascade Laser — with Jerome Faist
All Things Quantum Sensing — with Kevin Cox
The Lidar Boom — with Jason Eichenholz
At the Intersection of Optics and Art — with Charles Falco
Surgical and Vision-Guided Robotics — with Moshe Safran and Russell Taylor
Light-Activated Molecular Machines — with Ivan Aprahamian
John Harvey: A Test (and Measure) of the Global Photonics Ecosystem
Matthieu Baudelet: Forensic Spectroscopic Tire Chemical Analysis
Bishnu Pal: A Guide Through Guided Wave Optics
Claudio Mazzali: On OSA and the Future of Fiber
Eric Fossum: The CMOS Sensor’s ‘Epic’ Journey
Thomas Battley: Optics in the Driver’s Seat (in Western NY and Beyond)
Gregory Quarles: Directed Energy – Dual Usage and the Transfer of Technology
Ursula Gibson: Novel Core Optical Fibers and Materials
Nathalie Picque: From Frequency Combs to Holography — and Everything in Between
Dirk Englund: Quantum Photonics: Breakthroughs and Limitations
Jess Wade: OLED Displays, Chirality, and Equity
Chunlei Guo: Femtosecond Lasing: Applications and Innovations
Ian Walmsley: Unlocking a Quantum Advantage: Supercomputing, Sensing, and Optics
Anita Mahadevan-Jansen: Biomedical Optics and Lasers and Light
Andreas Tuennermann: Laser Systems, Fiber Technology, and Photonics Startups
Manu Prakash (Part 2): Dinner Table Microscopy, (Not) Knowing It All, and Science Education
Manu Prakash (Part 1): Frugal Science, for Love of the Mundane, and 1 Million Foldscopes (and Counting)
Michal Lipson: Silicon Photonics in the Fast Lane, Light on a Chip, and 20-Plus Years of Innovation
Tom Hausken and the market impact of COVID-19; Coherent part 2
Charlie & Charlie; New Coherent CEO
Jürgen Popp: Raman Spectroscopy and Early Disease Detection
Arthur McClelland: Mayan Teeth, Middle Eastern Manuscripts and Optical Spectroscopy
Roberta Ramponi: COVID-19 and Italy
Adam Wax: Microscopy and Cancer Detection
Photonics and Coronavirus; Andrea Armani and online conferences; Daguerreotypes and astrophysics
Donna Strickland; Benjamin Schmitt & Joe Serio: Life Before the Big Bang
Ursula Keller: SESAM ultrafast lasers and the world’s most accurate clock; 3D glasses and 500 million years of evolution.
Aydogan Ozcan: Democratization of Technology; Hologram or Illusion?
Walter Burgess: Lasers in Cinema; 100 Years of Spectroscopy
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