Sep. 9, 2024
Note: Topics and guest appearance dates are subject to change.
Episode 1: October 1, 2024
Featured Guests: John Jost, co-founder, Enlightra; Anthony Yu, Vice President, Computing and Wired Infrastructure Business Unit, GLOBALFOUNDRIES
Topics: optical datacom, integrated photonics, silicon photonics
Episode 2: October 15, 2024
Featured Guests: Terry Thorn, VP of Commercial Operations, Ayar Labs
Topics: optical I/O chiplets, integrated photonics, PICs, optical datacom
Episode 3: October 29, 2024
Featured Guest: Kathleen Richardson, UCF CREOL; Javier Elizalde, COO of Wooptix
Topics: chalcogenide glass, optical materials, wavefront phase imaging
Episode 4: November 12, 2024
Featured Guests: Sam Rubin, CEO, LightPath Technologies; Lieven Penninck, PlanOpSim co-founder
Topics: optics, optical fabrication, optical design, simulation, metaoptics
Episode 5: November 19, 2024
Featured Guests: Ji-Xin Cheng, Boston University College of Engineering; Ronnen Lovinger, CEO, Dust Photonics
Topics: biophotonics, spectroscopy, imaging, silicon photonics
Episode 6: December 3, 2024
Featured Guest: Andrea Alu, City University of New York; David Shelton, AmeriCOM
Topics: metamaterials, metasurfaces, cloaking
Episode 7: December 10, 2024
Featured Guests: Michael Lebby, CEO, Lightwave Logic; Andrea Bragas, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Topics: integrated photonics,
data-/telecom, optical polymers, metrology, photonics progress in Latin America
Episode 8: December 17, 2024
Featured Guest: Tara Fortier, Group Leader, Time and Frequency Division at NIST
Topics: optical clocks