All Things Photonics – Season 9: Lineup and Schedule

Note: Topics and guest appearance dates are subject to change.

Episode 1: February 27, 2024

Featured Guests: Michael Mohammadi and Bill Warger: Thorlabs Mobile Photonics Lab Experience team

Topics: photonics education + workforce; industry-academia connectivity in photonics

Host: Jake Saltzman

Episode 2: March 12, 2024

Featured Guest: Zubin Jacob, Purdue University: Advancing Thermographic Imaging

Episode Guests: Benjamin Dringoli and Mariia Zhuldybina, TRAQC, 2024 SPIE Startup Challenge Winner

Topics: infrared imaging, surveillance, night vision, camera design, microthermography

Host: Joel Williams

Episode 3: March 26, 2024 (The OFC Episode)

Featured Guest: Mario Paniccia, Anello Photonics

Topics: silicon photonics, precision navigation, integrated photonics, gyroscopy, PICs

Host: Jake Saltzman

Episode 4: April 9, 2024

Featured Guest: Andrea Blanco-Redondo, UCF CREOL

Episode Guests: Matthias Trinker and Torsten Vahrenkamp, ELAS Investment

Topics: topological photonics, particle physics, quantum, industry, integrated photonics, design and simulation, photonic startups

Hosts: Joel Williams and Jake Saltzman

Episode 5: April 23, 2024

Featured Guests: Paul Prucnal, Princeton University and Bhavin Shastri, Queens University, Kingston: Neuromorphic Photonics

Topics: neuromorphic photonics, integrated photonics, optical computing, data centers

Host: Jake Saltzman

Episode 6: May 7, 2024 (Live from EPIC Annual General Meeting 2024)

Co-featured Guests: Distinguished EPIC AGM 2024 Guests (Beate Sauter, Elizabeth Illy); Gregory Niven, Lasers in Cinema

Topics: sustainability in photonics, light sources, legislation

Host: Joel Williams

Episode 7: May 21, 2024

Featured Guest: Paul McManamon, Exciting Technology

Episode Guest: Andy Bell, Alasdair Pentland, TeraView Limited

Topics: sensors, lidar, directed energy optics, terahertz sources, nondestructive testing,

Host: Joel Williams

Episode 8: June 4, 2024

Featured Guest: Jason Sorger, Leonardo DRS Daylight Solutions

Topics: lasers, high-power lasers, quantum cascade lasers

Host: Joel Williams