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All Things Photonics Podcast

All Things Photonics

From space exploration and quantum optics, to biomedical imaging and defense, today’s top scientific minds are using lasers, spectroscopy, sensors, and optics to deliver cutting-edge innovation to our society. In intimate conversations with those pushing the boundaries of human knowledge, “All Things Photonics”, airing biweekly on Tuesdays, spotlights photonics industry progress from beyond the lab.

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Past Episodes

119: Reaching the Limit of Human Perception — With Kunli Xiong
From TVs to AR/VR headsets, tech giants have always pushed for the highest picture resolution. That...

118: In Association With the Journal Optica, Imaging With Freeform Optics — With Jannick Rolland
We are teaming up with Optica to bring you insights into the latest studies that are leading to...

117: Spotlight: Reflections on PIC Summit 2025
PhotonDelta CEO Eelko Brinkhoff joins the podcast to discuss the recently concluded PIC Summit...

116: The Global Race to Commercializing Fusion Energy — With Thomas Forner
The global race to realize the potential of laser fusion is heating up. We’ve already seen...

115: Optical Biosensor Detects MPOX — With Partha Ray and Mete Aslan
While the threat of MPOX may not be making headlines in the U.S., the virus is still present. The...

114: Bringing AR/VR to the Front Lines – With Rob Schultz
Detailed digital displays are leaping out of our video games and onto the front lines. Vuzix...

113: Photonic Origami: The Art of Folding Glass With Lasers — With Tal Carmon
A conversation with Tal Carmon, a professor at Tel Aviv University, who led the team behind the...

112: The Power of Inertial Confinement Fusion — With Omar Hurricane and Mike Campbell
There is an ever-growing demand for power, whether it is to supply electricity for our power-hungry...

111: Spotlight: Hollow Core Fiber: Inside a Surging Technology
Photonics industry luminary Jason Eichenholz discusses hollow core fiber (HCF). Eichenholz is...

110: OIF at ECOC 2025 — With Nathan Tracy and Mike Klempa
In the lead-up to the European Conference on Optical Connectivity 2025 in Copenhagen, “All...

109: Spotlight: Cornerstone Silicon Photonics Capabilities With Graham Reed
Professor Graham Reed is a pioneer in silicon photonics. In 1989, he founded the Silicon Photonics...

108: Battling Heart Disease With Photonics — With Yuqi Zhou
Photonic technologies are already being used to battle cardiovascular disease, but emerging...

107: Summer Camp in the Sunshine State — With Mike McKee
Mike McKee, undergraduate advisor at the University of Central Florida's College of Optics and...

106: Spotlight: Quantum Nonlinear Photonics 101 with Yannick Salamin
We may not all be experts in the field of quantum nonlinear photonics, but we can all appreciate...

105: Next Generation of Phase Change Materials and Scientists — With Jasper Stackawitz
Jasper Stackawitz, a rising senior at Pennsbury High School in Pennsylvania and recipient of the...

104: Spotlight: Inspiring the Next Generation of Photonics Professionals With Garrett Cole
Garrett Cole, associate professor at the Wyant College of Optical Sciences, has returned to...

103: Spectroscopy in the MIR — With Søren Friis
Søren Friis, head of sales and business development at NLIR, breaks down the technique of MIR...

102: Holographic Displays: From the War Room to the Living Room — With Wally Haas
Long thought of as a technology of the future, holographic displays are now making their way to the...

101: Brightening the Future of Display Technologies — With Reza Chaji
Reza Chaji, CEO of VueReal, discusses current challenges in micro-LED display technologies, and the...

100: Spotlight: All Eyes on Munich for Laser World of Photonics 2025 With Exhibition Director Anke Odouli
Laser World of Photonics is one of the top trade shows for the laser and photonics industry. Tens...

99: Pushing the Bounds of Industrial Laser Performance — With Aldas Juronis
Aldas Juronis, CEO of EKSPLA, discusses key parameters in the design and manufacture of industrial...

98: Spotlight: Today’s Federal Policies Shape Tomorrow’s Photonics Landscape With Rep. Joe Morelle
A group of bipartisan lawmakers formed the Optics and Photonics Caucus back in 2020. At that time,...

97: Laser-Powered Time Travel — With Physicist and Professor Emeritus, Ron Mallett
Time travel is not just theoretical, it’s proven. But that doesn’t mean we are anywhere close to a...

96: Closing Connection Gaps through Free Space Optical Communications — With Tom Chaffee, Jim Olson, and Wayne Knox
Free space optical communication could offer high speed connectivity without the need of optical...

95: Spotlight: Trade War Threatens Global Semiconductor Industry — With Lita Shon-Roy, President/CEO and Founder of TECHCET
No one can be sure how this current trade war between the U.S. and China will end. But we’re...

94: Laser-Based Additive Manufacturing Steps into the Blue — With Lukas Hoppe
Additive manufacturing garners considerable attention — but the methods and underlying technology...

93: Graphene: At the Intersection of Photonics and 2D Materials Science — With Andy MacInnes
Graphene’s recent and ongoing ascent into commercial applications and consumer devices is the focus...

92: Spotlight: Frank Winkler, Professor of Experimental Neuro-Oncology, Heidelberg University
Dr. Frank Winkler, at Heidelberg University focuses on the emerging field of cancer neuroscience,...

91: Directed Energy: Into the Battlefield and Out of this World — With Martin Richardson
Martin Richardson, director of the University of Central Florida’s Center for Directed Energy,...

90: Placing “Test” on the Integrated Photonics Value Chain — With Iñigo Artundo
Iñigo Artundo, CEO of photonic test and design house VLC Photonics, breaks down the function of...

89: Spotlight: John Ballato, Professor of Materials and Science Engineering at Clemson University
John Ballato is a professor of materials science and engineering at Clemson University. He knows...

88: The Role of Materials in Optical Networking — With Brad Booth
For this episode, we are joined by Brad Booth, CEO of NLM Photonics, the developer of a hybrid...

87: Spotlight: Nick Harris, CEO and Founder of Lightmatter
Lightmatter is pushing the envelope of AI interconnect and networking standards. It’s all in an...

86: Microelectronics Packaging Through a Photonics Lens — With Abdul Rahim
Discussions around packaging — the art, the challenge, and the roadmap — have ramped up over the...

85: Spotlight: Tara Fortier, Project Leader at NIST
The photonics industry is booming. Technological advancements and increasing demand are driving...

84: Spotlight: Dr. Andrew Brown, Senior Director SPIE
In the premiere episode of Spotlight, from "All Things Photonics," Dr. Andrew Brown with SPIE joins...

Season 10

8: Fiber Optics and Fiber Lasers (With Sir David Payne) and Time and Frequency (With Tara Fortier)
In season ten’s finale, "All Things Photonics" speaks with its first knighted guest: Sir David...

7: Electro-Optic Polymers (with Michael Lebby) and Miniaturized Particle Accelerators (with Stephen Milton)
Lightwave Logic CEO Michael Lebby discusses his company’s electro-optic polymer technology, what it...

6: Optics Manufacturing in America (with Dave Shelton) and a Primer on Metamaterials (with Andrea Alù)
David Shelton, President and CEO of AmeriCOM, discusses ongoing efforts to strengthen the United...

5: The Future of Biophotonics (with Ji-Xin Cheng) and Dynamic Growth in Silicon Photonics (with Ronnen Lovinger)
Ji-Xin Cheng, professor at Boston University, discusses the future of biophotonics and the...

4: Chalcogenides Continued and PlanOpSim — With Lieven Penninck and Sam Rubin
Lieven Penninc, founder of planar optics modeling software developer PlanOpSim, offers perspective...

3: Wavefront Phase Imaging and Chalcogenide Glass — with Javier Elizalde and Kathleen Richardson
Senior editor Joe Kuczynski speaks with Javier Elizalde, COO of Wooptix, about the company’s...

2: All About Optical Interconnects — with Terry Thorn
Terry Thorn, vice president commercial operations at optical interconnect solutions developer Ayar...

1: Exploring the Potential of Silicon Photonics and PICs — with Anthony Yu and John Jost
In the inaugural episode of Season 10, we discuss GlobalFoundries’ Fotonix project and the...

Season 9

8: Durable Quantum Cascade Lasers: Applications and Deployments
The episode begins with on-site interviews from EPIC’s Technology Meeting for Photonics in XR, held...

7: Countermeasure Detection and Ranging Technologies — With Paul McManamon
Optics and photonics luminary Paul McManamon is our guest for a discussion on advanced ranging and...

6: Live from the EPIC Annual General Meeting and Summit 2024 — With Beate Sauter, Elizabeth Illy
Photonics Media comes to you from onsite at the 2024 Annual General Meeting of the European...

5: The Neuromorphic Photonics Roadmap — With Paul Prucnal and Bhavin Shastri
Paul Prucnal, professor of electrical and computer engineering and director of the Center for...

4: The Almighty Soliton — With Andrea Blanco-Redondo
As an endowed professor at The University of Central Florida College of Optics and Photonics (UCF...

3: Inside Silicon Photonics — With Mario Paniccia
Silicon photonics’ evolution from application shrouded in uncertainty to discipline harboring vast...

2: Thermal Imaging and AI: Introducing HADAR — With Zubin Jacob
Zubin Jacob, Purdue University Elmore Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, discusses...

1: The Mobile Photonics Lab Experience — With Michael Mohammadi and Bill Warger
The conceptualization, development, and rollout of Thorlabs’ Mobile Photonics Lab Experience is the...

Season 8

8: Low Loss — and High Gain — in Silicon Photonics — With Joyce Poon
Integrated Photonics luminary Joyce Poon caps Season 8 of "All Things Photonics" with a discussion...

7: Sense and Measure — With Joseph Shaw and Sanathana Konugolu
True understanding is accomplished only through precise measurement. Though practitioners in the...

6: Quantum Dot, Quantum Compute — With Peter Lodahl
The almighty nanoparticle known as the quantum dot is enjoying its moment in the sun — after...

5: MicroLEDs: A Marriage of Brightness, Efficiency, and Possibility — With Hongxing Jiang and Jingyu Lin
About 20 years ago, Hongxing Jiang and Jingyu Lin published a paper describing the microLED. Since...

4: Influence in Photonic Integration — With Peter O’Brien and David McGovern
Peter O’Brien, director of the PIXAPP Photonics Packaging Pilot Line and head of the photonics...

3: Live From Optifab 2023 — With Chunlei Guo and Carolyn McMorran
“All Things Photonics” broadcasts from SPIE Optifab 2023 in Rochester, N.Y. In this episode from...

2: Nanomedicine: Out of the Lab and Into the Field — With Andrea Armani
Photonic technologies like lab-on-a-chip are taking out a lot of the head-scratching and tedium...

1: Beyond the Advent: Photonics and AI — With Tom Hausken
Longtime photonics market analyst and current industry adviser Tom Hausken delivers his expert...

Season 7

8: PATHS-UP: The Commercialization of Raman Instrumentation at the Point of Care — With Samuel Mabbott, Michael Matthews, and Cyril Soliman
The Precise Advanced Technologies and Health Systems for Underserved Populations initiative, or...

7: Opportunity and Strategy in Semiconductors — With Walter Burgess
Microelectronics technology innovation and, more notably, recent legislation have brought to the...

6: Quantum Integrated Photonics: Drivers and Outcomes — With Matt Eichenfield
As separate disciplines, quantum science and integrated photonics are pushing the bounds of...

5: Evolution of the Optics Shop, Workforce, and Industry — With Paul Melone (Thorlabs)
The changing nature of the "optics shop" — and, more broadly, its role in the optics and photonics...

4: Toward a Viable Holography — Scalable and Cost-Effective — With Theodore Marescaux and Mike Noonen
The brain trust of holographic extended reality startup Swave Photonics discusses the company's...

3: The Carrot and the Stick — Insights from PhotonDelta — With Ewit Roos
With its goal to cultivate and foster photonics-driven progress in the Netherlands, PhotonDelta...

2: Checking in From NIF — Laser-Driven Fusion — With Jean-Michel Di Nicola
Three-and-a-half months after December 2022's breakthrough experimental result that yielded fusion...

1: Utility in Infrared Imaging — A Biophotonics Perspective — With Rohit Bhargava
Rohit Bhargava, director of the Cancer Center at Illinois, follows his Photonics West 2023 Optical...

Season 6

7: Big Image Data: Unveiling the Power of Raw Images — With Bruno Sanguinetti
In a world characterized by massive quantities of (often unusable) information sources, many facets...

6: Guided by Light: A Life in Fluorescence — With Isiah Warner
Isiah Warner, Boyd Professor and Emeritus Philip W. West Professor, Analytical & Environmental...

5: The Ascension of Meta-Optics — With Rob Devlin
Metalenz co-founder and CEO Rob Devlin recounts a decade of progress in the field of meta-optics,...

4: The Utility of Lidar — Flood Prevention and Revelations from a Maya Settlement
Two lidar imaging use cases are explored. In segment one, the Texas Water Development Board's Joey...

3: From Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science 2022
From on scene at Optica's Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science Show in Rochester, N.Y., All Things...

2: Biomedical Optics — The BioPhotonics Conference Episode with Brian Pogue
Brian Pogue, professor and chair of the Department of Medical Physics at the University of...

1: Meta-Optics Fabrication and Commercialization — With Theodor Nielsen
NIL Technologies CEO and founder Theodor Nielsen discusses the road to commercialization for...

Season 5

8: Ultrashort-Pulse X-Ray Sources and Laser Research — With Donna Strickland, Francois Légaré, And Heide Ibrahim
Nobel laureate Donna Strickland joins Francois Légaré and Heide Ibrahim from the Advanced Laser...

7: Brain Imaging and Measurement — All Things Neurophotonics With David Boas
David Boas, director of the Boston University Neurophotonics Center, is our guest. The episode...

6: The LaserNetUS Consortium — A Podcast of High Intensity with Chandra Breanne Curry
Chandra Breanne Curry, coordinator of the LaserNetUS consortium, offers insights into...

5: Photonic Supercomputing — With Michael Hochberg and Marcus Gomez
Silicon photonics pioneer and President of Luminous Computing Michael Hochberg joins Luminous’ CEO...

4: Advances in Terahertz Optoelectronics — With Mona Jarrahi
UCLA researcher Mona Jarrahi breaks down critical achievements in the terahertz domain, with...

3: Inside the Vintage Laser Archives — With Bob Hess
Bob Hess, one of the world’s leading collectors of lasers, laser accessories, and holograms, takes...

2: Directed Energy Arrays — And Nematodes in Space Part II — With Philip Lubin and Joel Rothman
Building on the first episode of the season, University of California, Santa Barbara scientists...

1: Displays, Waveguide Optics — And Nematodes in Space? — With Jonas Zeuner and Joel Rothman
2022 SPIE Startup Challenge winner VitreaLab's glass-based waveguides are innovating the lighting...

Season 4

6: Explorations of the Quantum Cascade Laser — with Jerome Faist
Jerome Faist, co-inventor of the quantum cascade laser (QCL), reflects on nearly 30 years’ worth of...

5: All Things Quantum Sensing — with Kevin Cox
The electromagnetic environment in which today’s soldiers operate is the focus of this episode,...

4: The Lidar Boom — with Jason Eichenholz
Serial entrepreneur and co-founder and CTO of Luminar Technologies Jason Eichenholz discusses the...

3: At the Intersection of Optics and Art — with Charles Falco
Experimental physicist Charles Falco expounds on the thesis that bears his name, and gives insight...

2: Surgical and Vision-Guided Robotics — with Moshe Safran and Russell Taylor
Moshe Safran, CEO of RSIP Vision USA, speaks on the intersection of computer vision, AI, and...

1: Light-Activated Molecular Machines — with Ivan Aprahamian
Ivan Aprahamian, author of the 2020 ACS Central Science paper "The Future of Molecular Machines,"...

Season 3

11: John Harvey: A Test (and Measure) of the Global Photonics Ecosystem
In the season’s final episode, John Harvey, founder and CEO of Southern Photonics, shares his...

10: Matthieu Baudelet: Forensic Spectroscopic Tire Chemical Analysis
Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy is the technology behind a newly developed forensic technique...

9: Bishnu Pal: A Guide Through Guided Wave Optics
Bishnu Pal, author of "Frontiers in Guided Wave Optics and Optoelectronics" and dean of academics...

8: Claudio Mazzali: On OSA and the Future of Fiber
Claudio Mazzali, CTO and senior vice president of technology at Corning Optical Communications, is...

7: Eric Fossum: The CMOS Sensor’s ‘Epic’ Journey
Eric Fossum, inventor of the CMOS active pixel image sensor, talks about the past, present, and...

6: Thomas Battley: Optics in the Driver’s Seat (in Western NY and Beyond)
Western New York (specifically, the city of Rochester) is a globally recognized hub for optics,...

5: Gregory Quarles: Directed Energy – Dual Usage and the Transfer of Technology
Greg Quarles, former OSA chief scientific officer and current CEO of Applied Energetics, takes us...

4: Ursula Gibson: Novel Core Optical Fibers and Materials
2019 President of The Optical Society and Fulbright Scholar Ursula Gibson details her latest work...

3: Nathalie Picque: From Frequency Combs to Holography — and Everything in Between
Frequency combs have revolutionized time and frequency metrology, making stops along the way to key...

2: Dirk Englund: Quantum Photonics: Breakthroughs and Limitations
The latest in quantum computing and quantum optics is our focus, as Dirk Englund from MIT’s...

1: Jess Wade: OLED Displays, Chirality, and Equity
Jess Wade from Imperial College London’s Blackett Laboratory kicks off Season 3 with expert...

Season 2

7: Chunlei Guo: Femtosecond Lasing: Applications and Innovations
Chunlei Guo, from the High-Intensity Femtosecond Laser Laboratory in the Institute of Optics at the...

6: Ian Walmsley: Unlocking a Quantum Advantage: Supercomputing, Sensing, and Optics
Quantum information processing has arrived at the cutting edge. Ian Walmsley, elected fellow of the...

5: Anita Mahadevan-Jansen: Biomedical Optics and Lasers and Light
Vice president of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) Anita Mahadevan-Jansen...

4: Andreas Tuennermann: Laser Systems, Fiber Technology, and Photonics Startups
Andreas Tuennermann, head of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering,...

3: Manu Prakash (Part 2): Dinner Table Microscopy, (Not) Knowing It All, and Science Education
Part 2 of our conversation with MacArthur Fellow Manu Prakash, who takes us inside his lab at...

2: Manu Prakash (Part 1): Frugal Science, for Love of the Mundane, and 1 Million Foldscopes (and Counting)
Frugal science and the Foldscope microscope are among the topics we discuss with Manu Prakash, in...

1: Michal Lipson: Silicon Photonics in the Fast Lane, Light on a Chip, and 20-Plus Years of Innovation
OSA Vice President-elect and silicon photonics pioneer Michal Lipson launches Season 2 with a...

Season 1

10: Tom Hausken and the market impact of COVID-19; Coherent part 2
In this final episode of Season 1, Tom Hausken, senior industry advisor from OSA, reviews the...

9: Charlie & Charlie; New Coherent CEO
Charles H. Townes biographer, Charles Petit, discusses the inventor of the laser, their...

8: Jürgen Popp: Raman Spectroscopy and Early Disease Detection
Jürgen Popp discusses his research into Raman spectroscopy and early disease detection. Dr....

7: Arthur McClelland: Mayan Teeth, Middle Eastern Manuscripts and Optical Spectroscopy
Arthur McClelland discusses his research into Raman spectroscopy and how it’s helping to...

Special Episode: Roberta Ramponi on COVID-19 and Italy
In this special bonus episode, OSA optics expert Roberta Ramponi discusses the industry reaction to...

6: Adam Wax: Microscopy and Cancer Detection
An interview with Dr. Adam Wax, an expert in early cancer detection, novel microscopy and...

5: Photonics and Coronavirus; Andrea Armani and online conferences; Daguerreotypes and astrophysics
USC professor Andrea Armani discusses her award-winning research on sustainable laser technology,...

4: Donna Strickland; Benjamin Schmitt & Joe Serio: Life Before the Big Bang
A special episode following the journey of a team of scientists as they seek to discover the...

3: Ursula Keller: SESAM ultrafast lasers and the world’s most accurate clock; 3D glasses and 500 million years of evolution.
Ursula Keller, SPIE’s 2020 Gold Medal winner, talks about her work on the SESAM laser and her...

2: Aydogan Ozcan: Democratization of Technology; Hologram or Illusion?
Aydogan Ozcan talks about how his research lab is working to make technology accessible to...

1: Walter Burgess: Lasers in Cinema; 100 Years of Spectroscopy
Walter Burgess, vice president of sales and engineering at Power Technology, explains how his...

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