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"MALAGA KEYNOTE 6: EDWIN ROKS CEO TELEDYNE TECHNOLOGIES We were delighted to welcome Edwin Roks the newly appointed CEO of Teledyne Technologies to the Optica Global Photonics Economic Forum. He gave us a fascinating insight into this global conglomerate operating from over [---] sites in the world. Teledyne is a global leader in industrial technology with over [-----] employees known for its innovative solutions across various sectors including aerospace defence and imaging. They describe themselves as a "global sensing and decision support company. The company's technologies are instrumental in"
YouTube Link 2024-10-08T06:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Optica series: Masters of Change Dr Anthony Yu GlobalFoundries We get many questions from young photonics companies trying to scale up production to serve new markets and increase their turnover. Thats where Optica can help. We have access to the leading CEOs and CTOs in over [---] photonics businesses who have a wealth of experience and are willing to share their advice with others. In this series we explore the business strategies being developed by industry leaders. We discuss the questions that young companies often find difficult to answer. Im joined at the questioners table by Michael"
YouTube Link 2024-08-16T10:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Interview with VeriQloud at IQT The Hague. I am currently in the Hague the Netherlands where Optica is joining the current edition of the Inside Quantum Technology conference. If you read this and see me wandering around please say hello. Lots of interesting speakers as well as many startups working on their business model canvas. One of the first to catch my eye was the French-based VeriQloud and I got a few words from the CEO and co-founder Marc Kaplan. Together with the other co-founder and CSO Elham Kashefi contributed to a a new work demonstrating verifiable blind quantum computing on"
YouTube Link 2024-04-23T15:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"EDWIN ROKS CEO Teledyne Industries Presentation [--] Jan [----] in San Francisco. COMPLETE PRESENTATION EDWIN ROKS CEO Teledyne Industries. This is the complete presentation given on January 27th [----] at the Optica Executive Reception in San Francisco: We welcomed over [---] guests many of whom came to hear the insights from Dr. Edwin Roks Chief Executive Officer of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated. He leads a company of over [-----] employees over [---] facilities worldwide and a market capitalization of approximately US $20 billion. In sharing this presentation we aim to show how a very successful"
YouTube Link 2025-01-28T10:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"HOW CAN EUROPEAN PHOTONICS SET UP SAFE RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS WITH CHINA AND ACHIEVE A WIN-WIN I have noted several recent articles in Europe (e.g. ScienceBusiness) exploring the possible research links with China in these politically delicate times. It reminds me of a recent interview I had with Peter Seitz who gave a very thoughtful presentation at the recent Photonics21 AGM in Brussels. Peter is well-known in photonics circles for his work with Hamamatsu Photonics Europe. So as we finalise the agenda for the Optica Photonics Economic Forum in Malaga October [--] and [--] [----] let me share"
YouTube Link 2024-07-24T15:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"New Optica Member: MARVELL Technology NEW OPTICA MEMBER: At #ofc2022 this year on the COBO (Consortium for On-Board Optics) stand we were able to welcome the silicon valley success of Marvell Technology to the growing Optica Industry family. Trusted by many of the world's leading technology companies for over [--] years their core business is moving storing processing and securing data. With that track record it is no wonder why their 400G DR4 silicon photonics platform low-loss Mach-Zehnder modulators and highly responsive photodiodes were one of the highlights at #OFC. Marvell Technology just"
YouTube Link 2022-05-26T09:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"THE IMPACT OF GLOBALFOUNDRIES ACQUISITIONS OF AMF IN SINGAPORE AND INFINLINK IN CAIRO ON PHOTONICS Hello from Sydney. Its summer here. And were kicking off another Optica Global Tour. Over the next few weeks well be part of global discussions and visiting corporate members on the ground as we go. But today I want to share something timely. Weve just completed an interview that looks at a series of acquisitions that significantly changes the silicon photonics landscape. On November 17th [----] GlobalFoundries announced the acquisition of Advanced Micro Foundry in Singapore. Just ten days later"
YouTube Link 2026-02-11T18:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"DEMO: SABIC SHOWS SELF-ALIGNING MATERIAL AND NEW RESINS FOR Co Packaged Optics At last weeks OFC Conference and Exhibition in San Francisco the Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC) announced their EXTEM RH1017UCL polyimide resin for emerging technologies like onboard and co-packaged optical interconnects. This new resin withstands 260C reflow soldering. It also features enhanced properties supporting the high-volume production of multi-lens arrays for optical connect assemblies and subassemblies. The optimization of network architecture to handle the explosion of data from AI cloud and"
YouTube Link 2025-04-16T17:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"SPARC Photonics Foundry is born in Vigo Spain Huge news to share today. A new Photonics fab for both InP and GaAs is being born in the port city of Vigo in Galicia Northern Spain. Photonics in Spain has been growing steadily with great PIC design houses like VLC Photonics leading the way including pioneering work in Valencia Barcelona Madrid and Malaga. But as a Spaniard outside Spain I always wanted to see volume production of photonics in my home country. My dream will come true by the end of [----] as a new pioneering centre called SPARC kicks into production. In fact extensive planning has"
YouTube Link 2022-09-29T12:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Celebrating Japanese Photonics advancements NTT NEWS & OITDA : Hello again. Im in Tokyo to share Opticas vision of what we expect in the next decade in 3D imaging and sensing integrated photonics automotive and AR/VR. Im participating in the 26th Annual International Optoelectronics Association (IOA) Meeting. The event serves as a platform for various global associations to convene exchange valuable market data and share their overall progress as associations. Optica has hosted this important event several times in the past. My first presentation will be at [----] on Wednesday May 31st at a"
YouTube Link 2023-07-02T09:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"PHOTONICS AT THE FRONT LINE: HOW DEFENCE AND SECURITY DEMANDS ARE RESHAPING OUR INDUSTRY Drones shutting down airports in Western Europe have made something clear: defence and security are no longer edge-case topics for the photonics community. They are central to the next wave of investment supply-chain resilience sensing innovation and laser-based countermeasures. At the recent Global Photonics Economic Forum we released Scott Keeneys keynote on the accelerating dual-use nature of photonics. Following his remarks he joined the opening panel on security and defence. The video begins with a"
YouTube Link 2025-11-13T09:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"IPG Photonics: LEADING THE WAY WITH HIGH POWER HAND-HELD At Laser World of Photonics Ralf Raimann from IPG Photonics Deutschland showed me one of the showstoppers of the event: their new 2000W Single-Mode Lightweld system. It is capable of welding stainless steel up to [--] mm in thickness and aluminium up to [--] mm. The market is recognising the enormous potential of hand-held welding capable of welding thicker material at higher speeds. The next step is to incorporate the handheld into a Cobot system for fully programmable automated operation. A simple way to maximise productivity and"
YouTube Link 2025-07-07T10:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"HAMAMATSU SHARES IDEAS IN DENVER WITH INSIGHTS FOR MUNICH: Hello from the plane leaving Denver Colorado USA where Ive been part of the highly successful Optica Quantum [---] meeting this week. Of course there were amazing plenaries including presentations from three Nobel Prize winners Alain aspect John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger) as well as popular breakout sessions including the Industry End-User workshop. But one of my favourite bits of such as event is wandering the exhibition floor. WHAT WE LEARNED FROM THE DENVER EXHIBITION It's always interesting to find familiar names in #photonics"
YouTube Link 2023-10-15T10:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"ION -TRAP Advantage: AQTs Role in Europes Quantum Leap My Optica colleague Jon Pugh met up with David Vettese from Alpine Quantum Technologies (AQT) based in Innsbruck Austria. They are exhibiting at Laser World of Quantum at stand A1. [---]. This company is famous for its pioneering achievements. The AQT founding team was the first to demonstrate a controlled-NOT gate operation a critical building block for general purpose quantum computing. Since then theyve been pushing the boundaries of ion-trap-based quantum systems across Europe. In this short interview we discuss AQTs role in recent"
YouTube Link 2025-07-07T10:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"KEYNOTE MALAGA: Mark Gitin CEO IPG PHOTONICS Since taking the helm Mark has guided IPG through a rapidly changing global landscape reinforcing its position as the world leader in fiber laser technology. Today Mark will share how IPG is turning disruption into advantage. Like a [----] watt single mode laser allows welding of steel up to [--] mm thick. Theyre adapting handheld systems for higher throughpout and cobot automation to reduce costs in aerospace defense medical and clean technologies. Under Marks leadership IPG has expanded from being a product maker to becoming a solutions"
YouTube Link 2025-11-09T07:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Join me at PIC International in Brussels Next Tuesday and Wednesday Brussels airport will be the venue for the photonic integrated circuits industry family meeting: PIC International And this year Im honoured to chair a panel session to discuss the most urgent issue of our time the need for hybrid integration. How do we organize a profitable global collaboration to ensure that hybrid integration is accessible sooner rather than later To start the discussion we selected Optica Corporate Members that are currently driving the change. My panellist includes POET Technologies SCINTIL Photonics"
YouTube Link 2022-06-27T21:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"AI Data Center Boom: TTM CEO Edwin Roks on PCBs Photonics and the $185B AI Spend What happens to the electronics supply chain when Big Tech commits up to $185 billion to AI infrastructure On February [--] [----] shares of TTM Technologies jumped more than 7% after reports that Alphabet plans massive AI data-center spending. The logic is simple: AI chips dont float. Every processor optical module and RF component must be integrated onto advanced printed circuit boards and high-density subsystems. Just days earlier TTM reported strong Q4 results with sales up 19% year-on-year driven by data-center"
YouTube Link 2026-02-13T07:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Exail (France) at Optica Conference in Denver June [----] WHY EXAIL (ex-iXBLUE) EXCELS IN QUANTUM. As I travel the world I keep bumping into the great people at Exail Technologies. This leading French high-tech industrial group was formed last year when ECA Group and Optica Corporate member iXblue Pty Ltd Survey Specialists joined forces. Exail specialises in cutting-edge robotics maritime navigation and aerospace systems. We saw them in Denver at Optica Quantum [---] as well as LASER World of PHOTONICS in Messe Muenchen because of their use of photonics and quantum technologies for use in"
YouTube Link 2023-10-15T11:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"FINEPLACER femto pro launch at Laser World of Photonics. BOOTH VISIT DAY [--]. FINEPLACER femto pro launch at Laser World of Photonics. Berlin-based Finetech has been one of the highlights for me this time with the world premiere and demo of their fastest production die bonder to date the FINEPLACER femto pro. It is designed to set a new benchmark in high-precision micro-assembly. The new machine combines unmatched bonding speed with very high accuracy. It will be of interest to anyone involved in advanced packaging applications including Silicon Photonics Photonic Integrated Circuits"
YouTube Link 2025-07-07T10:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"REPLAY: OPTICA ONLINE INDUSTRY MEETING ON HETEROGENEOUS INTEGRATION JAN 27th [----] This video starts with a 5-minute overview of upcoming Optica events in [----] and an intro to the discussion. In this meeting we will bring together industry leaders to discuss challenges ahead for Heterogeneous integration in silicon photonics. This is no longer an academic discussion. Its about what can actually be built to a deadline tested and manufactured at scale. Well look at some of the real bottlenecks like Alignment. Thermal management. Process integration. Yield and reliability. You may have seen some"
YouTube Link 2026-01-28T14:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Keynote 7: Solving the Economic Equation for Silicon Photonics. Gregg Bartlett CTO Global Foundries Over the coming weeks we plan to post highlights from the Optica Global Photonics Economic Forum which concluded this week in Malaga Spain. They can be found on this YouTube channel where all our corporate engagement videos posted on LinkedIn are archived. We know that videos quickly get lost in your feed so this is the alternative. Also all the sessions are longer than the LinkedIn max of [--] minutes. Feedback is welcome. Which was your favourite keynote and panel Try this for instance. Keynote"
YouTube Link 2024-10-05T11:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"CEO Panel Discussion Global Photonics Economic Forum [----] It's already a tradition for a CEO Panel session at the end of the first day of the forum. Chaired as usual by Michael Lebby member of the Optica Board this year the line-up was John T.C. Lee CEO MKS Inc Marisa Edmund CEO Edmund Optics Stefan Traeger CEO JENOPTIK Mark Gitin CEO IPG Photonics Jennifer Cable President Thorlabs Photonics Optics Quantum Deep-tech Laser PIC Silicon Photonics Displays LED Lighting Microscopy Space Spectroscopy LIDAR Photonics Optics Quantum Deep-tech Laser PIC Silicon Photonics Displays LED Lighting"
YouTube Link 2025-10-17T15:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"VALO Innovations GmbH - a part of Hbner Photonics LAUNCHES TIDAL DAY [--] NEWS FROM MUNICH VALO Innovations GmbH - a part of Hbner Photonics LAUNCHES TIDAL [--] Watts [--] fs laser. It is always a delight to discuss femtosecond laser developments with industry experts like Oliver Prochnow of VALO Innovations GmbH (now part of HBNER Photonics). On their stand B2.217 at Laser World of Photonics [----] my Optica colleague Helena Diez-y-Riega and I were keen to see their latest product: a VALO ultrafast femtosecond laser offering up to [--] watts and [--] fs. We discussed their application in multiphoton"
YouTube Link 2025-07-07T10:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Optica has arrived in Sunnyvale CA for the PECC Summit @ Juniper Networks Optica has arrived in Sunnyvale which calls itself the heart of Silicon Valley though most people recall that Atari started the video game industry here. Today the innovation is being driven by other famous names close by. Within a [--] dollar Uber ride you can get to the offices of Google Meta Microsoft AMD Honeywell Yahoo (yes they still exist) as do Juniper Networks where I am parked now . You might say that all these companies have one thing in common. They became successful because of fast communication. But that was"
YouTube Link 2023-10-24T21:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"OPTICA VIP RECEPTION KEYNOTE JOHN T.C. LEE MKS Inc. Given Monday January 19th [----] San Francisco. SUMMARY: At the Optica VIP reception at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art John T.C. Lee President and CEO of MKS Incorporated delivered a world-class keynote on why advanced packaging has become the new system bottleneck in AI. Lee positioned MKS as a foundational infrastructure provider. $3.8B revenue. Technologies embedded in 85% of wafer-fab equipment and 70% of critical advanced packaging and PCB steps. His core message was blunt: semiconductor scaling alone is no longer enough. AI"
YouTube Link 2026-01-20T10:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"2500x BEAM STEERING SPEED INCREASE FROM INLEAP Photonics GmbH. Here's another Optica booth interview at Laser World of Photonics. Just before the show ended Friday afternoon we spoke with CEO Marius Lammers. He shared how this successful spinout from Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH) is impacting European additive manufacturing. INLEAP Photonics GmbH is pushing the boundaries of laser material processing with a bold claim: Yes were 3x more expensivebut 5x faster. Its not just about speedits about redefining productivity and sustainability in industrial laser applications. INLEAPs flagship"
YouTube Link 2025-07-07T10:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"MY [--] TAKEAWAYS from PIC INTERNATIONAL APRIL [----] in Brussels Overall - the best edition so far. This year's theme was Hybrid and Heterogeneous Integration. Here are my top [--] takeaways: Number 1: We need faster-advanced chip design and Optica corporate members like Synopsys Inc Luceda Photonics Ansys VPIphotonics and Optiwave Systems Inc. are leading the way. Hybrid integration represents a challenge for everyone. Each foundry has different process capabilities design rules and materials making it very difficult to transfer designs between them. The good news is that major foundries are"
YouTube Link 2023-04-23T20:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"A visit to Lightwave Logic to understand where chemistry meets silicon photonics. Just wrapped up an insightful visit to Lightwave Logic Inc. in Colorado I had the distinct honour of being given a tour by Michael Lebby a true photonics industry legend. As the Chairman and CEO of LightWave Logic and Opticas Board Member and Chair of the Corporate Engagement Council Michaels leadership and vision were inspiring to witness firsthand. During the visit I delved into the complexities of organic polymer manufacturing for high-speed interconnects. The meticulous testing at ultrahigh speeds and the"
YouTube Link 2024-09-23T10:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Modulight demo at laser World of Photonics June [----] I am just back from a very successful LASER World of PHOTONICS in Messe Muenchen. While wandering the halls this week (together with Helena Diez-y-Riega and an estimated [-----] visitors) I was delighted to meet up with Ulla Haapanen from the #KillCancer Team at Modulight Corporation a pioneering photonics medical device manufacturer. Their photonics technology is saving more and more lives. Based in Tampere I was delighted to see them demonstrate their new ML6710i designed for ophthalmologists treating various eye conditions. The device has"
YouTube Link 2023-10-15T14:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"THE BRABANT INNOVATION DAY SUMMIT VISITS JAPAN NOVEMBER 29th. CALLING JAPANESE PHOTONICS SEMICON AND ROBOTICS MANUFACTURERS. Register: https://lnkd.in/ex3z-b2Z Im sure this summit in Tokyo will interest Optica members in Japan including members of the OITDA (Optoelectronics Industry & Technology Development Association). Several speakers about sustainable electronics and photonics are associated with the PhotonDelta ecosystem in the Brainport Development area. The meeting is timely as Nikkei Asia reports that Japan is preparing to collaborate next year with both Europe and US to establish"
YouTube Link 2023-11-01T14:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"LAST CALL FOR OPTICA SUMMIT @ JUNIPER NETWORKS OCTOBER 24/25th in Sunnyvale CA. Heres the last call for one of the most anticipated photonics meetings of this year. In the heart of Silicon Valley Optica is bringing together many important decision-makers who will shape the near future of photonic-enabled cloud computing. But if you want to influence the outcome you must act now Because none of this can be shared online. Register here: https://lnkd.in/ekZqmP8M Our keynote speaker on October 24th is the legendary @Andy Bechtolsheim The German-born co-founder of Sun Microsystems Google investor"
YouTube Link 2023-10-15T16:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"DIARY DATE: OPTICA VIP Reception Jan [--] [----] with Teledyne CEO Optica is well known for its in-person executive events especially OFC Conference and the new Global Photonics Economic Forum. Your next networking opportunity is the Executive VIP Reception at Photonics West. On Monday January 27th [----] we return to SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. This year the keynote will be given by Dr. Edwin Roks CEO of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated a global leader in developing and manufacturing advanced sensing and decision-support systems. Through strategic acquisitions of brands like FLIR"
YouTube Link 2024-12-12T14:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"REPLAY: Optica ONLINE INDUSTRY MEETING LASER BEAM SHAPING February [--] [----] THIS LIVE MEETING WAS BROADCAST ON February [--] [----] 10:0011:30 ET 3PM UK IRELAND 4PM Central Europe: Background Laser beam shaping is one of those technologies that quietly decides whether an industrial laser process is robust or fragile. It drives real outcomes: throughput edge quality heat-affected zone repeatability and ultimately cost per part. In this third Optica Online Industry Meeting of [----] we focus on deployable beam-shaping techniques and the trade-offs that matter in production environments: stability"
YouTube Link 2026-02-11T06:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"REPLAY: Optica ONLINE MEETING: Quantum Computing: What the Photonics Industry Needs to Deliver Next On Tuesday [--] November [----] the season finale of the Optica Online Industry Meeting returned to one of the most dynamic frontiers of technology quantum computing. This year has been a defining one for IonQ marked by major acquisitions and breakthroughs toward the first ion-based quantum computer. We asked Jeremy Sage Senior Director of Technology at IonQ how the photonics industry can help build the next generation of ion-based quantum systems. Hell join a panel of senior experts shaping the"
YouTube Link 2025-11-18T21:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"KEYNOTE: Marisa Edmund CEO & Chairman Edmund Optics. We are continuing our coverage of the Optica Global Photonics Economic Forum. We will post the full versions of keynotes on Youtube since they last around [--] minutes. Ladies and gentlemen please welcome Marisa Edmund Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Edmund Optics. Marisa represents the third generation of leadership in a family company that has grown into a global force in optics and photonics. Today Marisa will speak about how Edmund Optics is adapting to a shifting geopolitical landscapewhere export restrictions tariffs and defense"
YouTube Link 2025-10-19T08:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"LAST CALL Optica Quantum Industry Summit [----] NOVEMBER [--] & [--] [----] in Bristol UK ARE YOU ON THE LIST FOR THE Optica Quantum Industry Summit [----] NOVEMBER [--] & [--] [----] My colleague Jon Pugh has been to Aerospace Bristol. It is the home of Concorde Alpha Foxtrotthe last Concorde built and the last to fly. At the upcoming Optica Quantum Industry Summit [----] well dine directly beneath her. If you attended last year youll know that the dinner and corridor conversation are what set us apart. We will have [--] SPEAKERS: Aaron Albores Mejia CEO CUbIQ Technologies Alberto Peruzzo VP Next Generation"
YouTube Link 2025-10-21T16:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"INSIDE THE NEW JAPANESE Lightera OPTICAL FIBER OPERATIONS - TRENDS IN HOLLOW CORE AND MULTICORE INSIDE THE NEW JAPANESE Lightera OPTICAL FIBER OPERATIONS - TRENDS IN HOLLOW CORE AND MULTICORE. On April 1st [----] FURUKAWA ELECTRIC GROUP Co. Ltd. unified its global optical fiber cable operations under a new business brand Lightera. (This strategic move combines Furukawa Electric's three optical fiber cable business units the Fiber Cable Division (Japan) OFS Fitel LLC (OFS) and Furukawa Electric LatAm S.A. (FEL) During last weeks OFC Conference in San Francisco I got the chance to speak with"
YouTube Link 2025-04-16T17:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"REGISTRATION OPEN: MEET SCOTT FARIS INFLEQTION AT OPTICA LAUSANNE SUMMIT 14/15 November. Optica is delighted to announce that Scott Faris CEO of Infleqtion (formerly ColdQuanta) will be speaking at Opticas 2nd Annual Quantum Industry Summit. Now is the time to book your attendance in beautiful Lausanne Switzerland on [--] and [--] November [----]. Back at the end of January [----] Infleqtion announced a US$110 million Series B fundraiser. Watch the highlights below from a NY Stock Exchange (#NYSEFloorTalk) interview Scott gave to explain how the company will use the funding and his preferred future"
YouTube Link 2023-10-15T15:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"REPLAY OCTOBER 14th Optica Online Industry Meeting on PHOTONICS-ENABLED AI. First a THANK YOU. Following the success of the Global Photonics Economic Forum in Malaga last week powered by more [---] human beings its now time for the replay of the live Optica Online Industry Meeting on Photonics-enabled AI. It was broadcast on October 14th [----]. Brief Background to the Meeting Artificial Intelligence is pushing the limits of conventional electronics. Two new data centres open in the US every week adding to [----] sites already operational. But AI data centers may soon consume 12% of all US"
YouTube Link 2025-10-21T20:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"MORE SPEAKERS CONFIRMED FOR MALAGA: CORNING "THERE IS NO AI WITHOUT GLASS". Were using the summer to profile many leading companies speaking at the first-ever Global Photonics Economic Forum October 1-2 [----] in Malaga Spain. Dubbed the "Davos of Photonics" this pivotal forum positions Malaga as the place where the future relationship between Semicon and Photonics is debated discussed and decided. With [--] speakers already confirmed nine major keynotes and six panel discussions over two days this meeting of the minds is THE place for serious business. Were delighted that Dr. Aleksandra Boskovic"
YouTube Link 2024-07-24T16:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Luminar Semiconductor Inc. SHOWCASES THE POWER OF COLLABORATION. It is time for my colleague Jon Pugh to catch up with Chris Ebert from Optica Corporate member Luminar Semi. They showed off their very compact InstaTune Fast Random-Access Tunable Laser at the OFC Conference & Exhibition [----]. Luminar Semiconductor Inc. (Luminar Semi) based in Orlando Florida is a collection of the world's smartest PhDs and Manufacturing Engineers from four of the leading companies in the Photonics space now combined as a single entity under Luminar Technologies. They are Black Forest Engineering EM4 Freedom"
YouTube Link 2025-04-16T16:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"LEADERSHIP INTERVIEW WITH LIGHTMATTER CEO Nick Harris: SCALING AI WITH LIGHT NOT COPPER. After the recent PECC Summit I got the chance to sit down for a deep-tech interview with Nick Harris CEO of Lightmatter. In the video we discuss how the company (a startup valued in March [----] at $4.4 billion) is redefining computing through silicon photonics. This version is the [--] minute original. Harris explains why micro-ring resonatorstiny optical modulators just [----] m in sizeare central to Lightmatters architecture. These devices deliver exceptional bandwidth density and energy efficiency but"
YouTube Link 2025-11-12T09:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"IMPRESSIONS FROM JAPAN ON PHOTONICS. IMPRESSIONS FROM JAPAN ON PHOTONICS. Hello from Haneda Airport in Tokyo. Just before getting on the plane for home I wanted to share a few experiences of a very memorable trip to Japan. Part of the week has been presenting to the [--] members of OITDA the Japanese Optoelectronics Industry and Technology Development Association. Thanks to OITDA President Yasuhisa Odani and Executive Director Hiroshi Sawano I was able to meet many useful companies in a short space of time. It's fascinating to discover how giants like Panasonic use optics as well as AIO Core"
YouTube Link 2023-07-02T09:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"THE COHERENT SUCCESS STORY ENTERS A NEW PHASE. One of the most interesting stories at the [----] LASER World of PHOTONICS in Messe Muenchen emerged after a wander around the impressive Coherent Corp. stand. I found it interesting to see Optica Corporate member Coherent Corp. profiling (amongst other things) as a component supplier. But theres a good reason for this. In July last year (2022) a company called II-VI Incorporated (two six) completed the acquisition of Coherent Inc. Headquartered in Saxonburg Pennsylvania USA II-VI Incorporated had already established research and development"
YouTube Link 2023-10-15T14:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"15 Takeways from the 4th Quantum Industry Summit in Bristol November 11/12 [----] During the spectacular diner pensant underneath the wing of a Concorde plane I did the traditional dance to chat with some of the many interesting people who attended the Optica Quantum Industry Summit at Msheds in Bristol November [--] and 12th. The result was not only a test for our noise reduction software but it is nearly [--] minutes long. However if you are curious what your colleagues thought of the sessions and what they took away check out this long version on YouTube (In order of appearance) we spoke with:"
YouTube Link 2025-11-17T17:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"OPTICA QUANTUM [---] Conference in Boston June 13-16th [----] So heres your last chance to sign-up for the Optica Quantum [---] conference taking place soon in Boston Harbour and for our corporate members pay attention to our special Industry track starting from 14th to 16th of June [----]. Here's the direct link for more info. Note that the Industry Track is part of a larger conference on Quantum [---]. https://lnkd.in/eb2QTfs5 We kick off the sessions by looking at whats possible with the latest generation of quantum sensors with industry leaders from Germany TOPTICA Photonics and ZEISS Group. Then"
YouTube Link 2022-06-01T17:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"KEYNOTE MALAGA:Jennifer Cable Thorlabs This keynote was given on October 8th at the Optica Global Photonics Economic Forum. The next keynote speaker in this series of eight is Jennifer Cable President of Thorlabs. Founded in [----] the company has its headquarters in Newton New Jersey and [--] offices overseas. Jennifer is an established 2nd-generation family business leader who guides Thorlabs in strengthening its role as a global leader. They deliver over [-----] products that power research industry and innovation. Thorlabs is known worldwide for its components imaging systems lasers and quantum"
YouTube Link 2025-11-09T07:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"MALAGA Keynote 9: Dr. John T.C. Lee the President and CEO of MKS Instruments. Time now to introduce Dr. John T.C. Lee the President and CEO of MKS Instruments. MKS enables technologies that transform our world with technology solutions for leading edge semiconductor manufacturing electronics and packaging as well as specialty industrial applications. MKS is a global leader with revenue of $3.6 billion and over [-----] employees. John has been with MKS [--] years and played crucial roles in expanding the global presence of the company driving substantial growth in photonics semiconductor and"
YouTube Link 2024-10-11T08:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"GLOBAL PHOTONICS REMINDER: TAKE ADVANTAGE OF US BEFORE AUGUST 7th AND SAVE. I am in #Malaga again and I have a message from outside the Balenario de Nuestra Seora del Carmen the location for a special Optica dinner on October 7th [----]. I am working hard with my team throughout the summer to ensure the delivery of a superb second edition of the Optica Global Photonics Economic Forum (October 7th & 8th). We are only [--] months away I am delighted to report that the agenda is now finalised. Watch the video below for details. Then sign up to join us. Here's the UPDATE AND THE SPECIAL OFFER: Weve"
YouTube Link 2025-07-31T09:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"REPLAY OF Optica Online Industry Meeting on AR & VR October 28th [----]. In Mlaga during the Optica Global Photonics Economic Forum we heard a keynote from Michael Klug of Google He gave us a glimpse into the rapidly evolving field of Extended Reality. On Tuesday October 28th we took that conversation further during the Optica Online Industry Meeting on Augmented and Virtual Reality. As XR technology expands into new applications there is heavy demand for innovation in headset design as display performance is accelerating. Developers are pushing to make headsets lighter more affordable and"
YouTube Link 2025-10-29T17:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"KEYNOTE MALAGA: Michael Klug Director of Hardware at Google. This recording is part of a series of [--] keynotes given at the [----] Optica Global Photonics Economic Forum. This keynote comes from Michael Klug Director of Optical Hardware at Google. Michael leads teams developing the next generation of consumer technologies that shape how we live work learn and connect. Today he will show how photonics underpins Googles vision of AI helpfulnessenabling products that enrich everyday human experience. From AndroidXR and light-field displays to new wearables that span immersive reality to all-day"
YouTube Link 2025-10-29T17:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"MALAGA PANEL SESSION 3: NEW STRATEGIES FOR PHOTONICS TO PROFIT FROM SEMICON As well as [--] keynotes during the two-day forum (October [--] & 8th) there were seven panel sessions during last months Optica Global Photonics Economic Forum in Malaga Spain. The afternoon of the first day kicked off with Panel 3: New strategies for Photonics profit from Semicon. Moderated by me (Jose Pozo) we welcomed [--] leaders to the stage. This full session (55 minutes) includes the Q&A Panellists Greg Bartlett CTO GlobalFoundries Chuck Mattera former CEO Coherent Sanjai Parthasarathi Coherent Chief Marketing Officer"
YouTube Link 2025-11-09T16:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINS UNDER PRESSURE: A FRANK DISCUSSION IN MALAGA We have now released the full one-hour recording of Panel [--] from the Global Photonics Economic Forum in Malaga filmed on October [--] [----]. After a brief welcome from Opticas [----] President Jim Kafka the session opens with a clear data-driven briefing from Abhijit Mahindroo Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company. At the suggestion of Chuck Mattera former CEO of Coherent and now CEO of Avalanche Thinking Abhijit flew from New York to Malaga to outline where global supply chain risks are building and how they affect scaling photonics"
YouTube Link 2025-12-11T10:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"REPLAY BioSensing Optica Online Industry Meeting (Tuesday February 11th [----] from 10:00 to 11:30 ET Dive deep into the latest advancements in biosensing technologies including highly sensitive sensors wearable biosensors and point-of-care diagnostic devices. Hear from these industry experts: Ravi Saxena VP of Hardware Engineering at PacBio Amos Danielli Ph.D. Founder of MagBiosense Inc. Natallia E. Uzunbajakava PhD TNO PITC - Photonic Integration Technology Center. David C. Duffy Senior Technical Fellow at Quanterix And contributions from Jonas Leuermann CEO of Bioherent Luc Scheres Surfix"
YouTube Link 2025-02-11T17:28Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Optica ONLINE INDUSTRY MEETING: January 13th [----] on LIGHTING Background Lighting is no longer just about illumination. Materials innovation new emitters connectivity and system integration are all reshaping how lighting is designed manufactured and deployed at scale. This free-to-attend Optica Online Industry Meeting brings together companies working at critical pressure points of the lighting value chain. From new light-source architectures and OLED manufacturing to quantum-dot materials and free-space optical communication the focus is firmly on what is commercially viable now and what"
YouTube Link 2026-01-14T07:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"MALAGA Keynote 4: Darren Berns IDEX During this next session we were honored to introduce Darren Berns Chief Technology Officer of IDEX Optical Technologies. IDEX Corporation with over [----] employees globally is a key player in applied solutions for critical sectors including fluidics health & science technologies and optics. The company's innovations in photonics drive advancements in precision healthcare industrial manufacturing and environmental technologies. Darren Berns a leading authority in optical technologies has been instrumental in the rapid advancement of photonics and optics"
YouTube Link 2024-10-10T10:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"REPLAY Optica Online Industry Meeting on Laser Cutting and Drilling Nov 4rh [----] + Challenge. This is a second chance to watch the Optica Online Industry Meeting on Laser Cutting and Drilling Technologies. This 90-minute meeting took place on Tuesday November 4th at [--] a.m. Easterni.e. [--] p.m. Central European winter time. This session explores the latest advancements in laser cutting and drilling technologies two areas transforming industrial manufacturing in aerospace automotive electronics and medical devices. Laser cutting uses a focused beam to melt or vaporise material along a precise"
YouTube Link 2025-11-08T10:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"KEYNOTE MALAGA: Jo De Boeck Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at imec. The Opening keynote at the 2nd Global Photonics Economic Forum is from Jo De Boeck Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at imecthe worlds leading independent R&D center for nanoelectronics and photonics. The keynote was given on the morning of October 7th [----]. Since joining in [----] Jo has held key roles including CTO led the Smart Systems & Energy Division and directed imecs Holst Centre. He now drives imecs global strategy. Today Jo will share imecs strategic vision connecting"
YouTube Link 2025-11-09T06:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"KEYNOTE FROM FICTION TO DEPLOYMENT: Christina Hirschl CEO SAL Austria Todays keynote from the recent Optica Global Photonics Economic Forum is Christina Hirschl Chief Executive Officer of Silicon Austria Labs (SAL). This is Austrias leading research and technology organization. SAL is home to state-of-the-art cleanroom facilities and advanced packaging technologies supporting companies with design expertise and top engineering talent. Its mission is clear: to transform cutting-edge research into market-ready innovation. Christina Hirschl leads SAL with a vision for Europes futurewhere"
YouTube Link 2025-11-01T15:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"REPLAY LIVE Optica ONLINE Industry Meeting on PIC Packaging and Test February 25th [----]. Our Optica corporate members meet to discuss how to collaborate on PIC Packaging and testing. The goal is to answer the Optica question: what can you do for them and what can they do for you Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) are at the core of modern optical modules and their potential to transform industries is vast. However one of the biggest challenges for the industry is how to efficiently package and test PICs at scale to meet the growing demands coming from AI AR/VR and Medtech. In this LIVE"
YouTube Link 2025-02-25T18:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"LASER TURNING DEVELOPMENTS FROM Lithuanian Innovator Akoneer At the recent Laser World of Photonics my Optica colleague Helena Diez-y-Riega met with Tadas Kilduis CCO of Akoneer a key player in Lithuanias vibrant Laser & Engineering Technologies Cluster (LITEK). Based in Vilnius AKONEER is known for pushing the frontiers of femtosecond laser micromachining. This year they introduced a new capability: laser turning for cylindrical parts combining scanning motion with rotary access. This opens up new geometries and tolerances for sectors where conventional machining falls short. 🔧 Founded in"
YouTube Link 2025-07-07T11:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"HAVE YOU SIGNED UP FOR THESE Optica Executive Events 1Q [----] Hello from France where Im using the quiet holiday period to do some planning. If youre company is involved with optics and photonics then there are two events early in [----] which I am sure you will be attending. The first one is hashtag#PhotonicsWest which I note is adding quantum to its list of exhibitions running alongside the hashtag#Biophotonics Expo and the main exhibition. Right in the middle of the events Optica is organising our traditional VIP Executive reception. This year the venue is the SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of"
YouTube Link 2024-01-16T18:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"LioniX International SUCCESS STORY: FROM Silicon Nitride Chips to Complete Modules. My colleague Jon Pugh headed for the vibrant Netherlands pavilion at the OFC Conference & Exhibition [----] in San Francisco to catch up with Optica corporate member LioniX International. Sadoon Al-Obaidi explained their in-house manufacturing strategy at this successful Dutch company based in Enschede in the Eastern Netherlands. LioniX has been responsible for founding many innovative spinoffs as well as building its strategy for Silicon Nitride photonic integrated circuits and MEMS since [----]. Now that OFC is"
YouTube Link 2025-04-16T17:02Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"QUANTUM DOTS DEMO AT OFC [----] Wednesday March 27th FROM PLAN TO COMMERCIAL REALITY THANKS TO QUANTUM DOTS. At last years Optica Executive Forum at the OFC Conference Andreas Bechtholsheim founder of Arista Networks raised every eyebrow in the room. He stated that the future is Linear Drive Optics which compared to current DSP Optics offers power savings of 25% for 51.2T switch or even 30% for 102.4T switch. One year later I am amazed at what has happened since. A plan has become commercial reality. Join me on a journey across the exhibition floor to meet Hai-Feng Liu of HGGenuine catch up"
YouTube Link 2024-04-03T17:09Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"FINAL CALL NEW SPACE MEETING FEB [--] [----] 10AM EST Join Olg Raz and me this Tuesday February 27th [----] for the next Optica Online industry meeting. Give us [---] minutes and we will give you insights into realistic business opportunities in the world of new space. Olga tells me that nearly [---] people have already signed up. Last few seats are here for this free event if you register immediately. During the last Cold War space agencies in the US and Russia were handed blank checks. But today new space relies on global market economies to deliver breakthroughs at a fraction of those historic"
YouTube Link 2024-02-25T16:24Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"NEW Product Line from QTI SRL Ekate A quantum key manager with novel capabilities. Jon Pugh spoke to Co-Founder & CEO Tommaso Occhipinti at the World of Quantum in Munich🚨 To add to their already widely distributed commercially available Quell-X product line of QKD systems QTI have developed Ekate a new quantum key manager driven by customer demand. By adding some post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithms QTI have extended the capabilities of a quantum network. Using a quantum random number generator (QRNG) to provide quantum seeds for PQC for applications within hybrid networks. This"
YouTube Link 2025-07-07T11:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"ADAM CARTER : OpenLight ANNOUNCEMENTS AHEAD OF OFC Conference [----]. Today I'm delighted to reconnect with Adam Carter CEO of Optica Corporate member OpenLight based in California. In our previous discussion last year (https://lnkd.in/d9TPJexs) Adam provided insights into Open Light's disruptive business model and the evolution of silicon photonics. OpenLights unique integrated silicon photonics technology enables next-generation PASIC designs where the passive and active elements are built into the silicon. (They offer three prime services: design enablement in-house PASIC design and"
YouTube Link 2025-03-26T16:23Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"REPLAY: Optica Online Technology Meeting Tuesday June 10th [----] Co-Packaged and Pluggable Optics When do CPO become not just viable but inevitable Were you at OFC this year You must agree that since the telecom bubble burst we have not seen such levels of energy Datacenters are driving the success of the photonics economy today Days before OFC Jensen Huang shocked the world by announcing everyone (from investors to people in the street from supply chain partners to politicians) that Silicon Photonics was critical for implementing AI. That move is not by NVIDIA alone you saw recently the"
YouTube Link 2025-06-10T17:09Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"FINAL SPEAKER LINEUP ANNOUNCED FOR Optica Executive Forum [----] I think you will agree that this is the most influential forum in the world of optical communications. The one-day gathering takes place during OFC Conference [----] on March 31st. (Remember OFC has now moved to San Francisco). Allow me to explain why the meeting is so important now. This year's overall theme (and I believe for many years to come) is the rapid transformation of global network infrastructure driven by the huge demands from artificial intelligence. Yet companies like NVIDIA Google Microsoft and Meta are each telling"
YouTube Link 2025-02-07T12:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"REVEALED: REVOLUTIONARY APPROACH TO AUGMENTED REALITY CALL FOR COLLABORATION. Wow This IS UNIQUE. Ive just visited the University of Southampton Campus with Optica Technical Director Jon Pugh. We met Peter G.R. Smith the Founder of Optica Corporate Member Covesion Ltd. He invited us to his lab to demo his revolutionary approach to AR glasses. With four colleagues (Goronwy Tawy Miles Haines Rex Bannerman and Corin Gawith) hes formed Smith Optical an emerging DeepTech company from the University of Southampton developing a revolutionary new type of mixed reality glasses. What's in the video"
YouTube Link 2025-03-11T16:01Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"OPTICA PHOTONICS GAS & LIQUID SENSING:REPLAY of Meeting Tuesday May [--] [----] at 10:00 11:37 AM EDT PHOTONICS GAS & LIQUID SENSING: WATCH AGAIN HERE IS THE REPLAY LINK to the Optica Online Industry Meeting: Gas & Liquid Sensing which went out live on Tuesday May [--] [----] at 10:00 11:37 AM EDT Our meeting included many contributions including Kevin Cossel Project Lead US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Dave Nelson Aerodyne Research Inc. Arindom Saha Business Development Manager tec5USA Inc. Alexander Novikov R&D Lead art photonics GmbH Daniel Pearce Head of Applications Living"
YouTube Link 2025-05-06T17:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Great news about NKT Photonics in Denmark Great way to start the weekend. Together we are stronger together we move faster. Im delighted to note todays news that two of our iconic Optica corporate members Japanese Hamamatsu and Danish NKT Photonics have decided to join forces. Im sure I speak on behalf of 300+ Optica corporate members in congratulating NKT CEO Basil Garabet (and all those in your amazing team) on the next chapter in supercontinuum white light lasers. Im sure microscopy and semiconductor inspection sectors will benefit from this smart strategic move. I love it when great"
YouTube Link 2022-06-27T21:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Innolume: QUANTUM DOTS GRAND TOUR @ OFC. We love Quantum Dot Lasers at Optica Their potential for uncooled operation no need for isolators and broad flat gain make them a strong contender for the external laser in co-packaged optics. This makes it the ideal laser for datacom transceivers and WDM applications. Last year (2024) we saw Quantum Dots in LPO demos at OFC. This time after a remark on quantum dots by Andreas Andy Bechtolsheim (Arista Networks) we walked the exhibition to see how the Quantum Dot lasers made by Innolume GmbH have already been incorporated by integrators such as"
YouTube Link 2025-04-16T17:02Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"PECC [----] Sponsor Preview Were pleased to announce that Avicena Tech will serve as the exclusive Platinum Sponsor of the Optica + Advanced Photonics Coalition (APC) PECC Summit [----] taking place [----] October at the Juniper Networks Aspiration Dome in Sunnyvale California. As a leader in microLED-based chip-to-chip interconnects Avicena is directly addressing one of the most critical challenges in scaling AI infrastructure: the I/O bottleneck. Their participation sets the tone for a summit focused on real-world innovation and deployment-ready photonic technologies. Why Your Company Should Also"
YouTube Link 2025-07-03T11:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"REPLAY OPTICA ONLINE INDUSTRY MEETING on VR. October 22nd [----] My colleague Olga Raz just moderated a fascinating and insightful [---] minutes on the current challenges and future improvements in VR We were delighted to have Douglas Lanman Metas Senior Director of Display Systems Research share insights on Meta's developments in VR technology. He examines what is needed for more useful AR/VR displays introducing what they call the Visual Turing Test. Metas recent Quest [--] headset represents an exciting leap forward in affordable consumer VR offering visual clarity and a comfortable user"
YouTube Link 2024-10-22T16:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"BioPixS PHANTOM TESTING FOR BIOPHOTONICS: A PROFILE. Im in Washington DC this week at Optica HQ for Leadership week. I took the opportunity to meet up with Sanathana Konugolu Venkata Sekar the CEO and co-founder of BioPixS who is visiting us from Cork Ireland. Phantoms are devices that can mimic human tissue and are therefore essential for academics and industry to calibrate and develop biophotonic devices. The company specialises in end-to-end phantom-based testing characterization and validation to help biophotonics companies achieve critical milestones. What Makes BioPixS Phantoms Unique ✅"
YouTube Link 2025-03-11T15:45Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"SPEND HALLOWEEN IN THE METAVERSE: Optica Online Industry Meeting recording of October 31st [----] This is a recording of the public part of the Optica online technology meeting as broadcast live on October 31st [----]. Let me be controversial. In my opinion we will not carry "Phone bricks" around forever because the future is much lighter devices that show what surrounds us around the corner and even around the real and imaginary worlds. But dont throw out your mobile phone just yet. We need major improvements to the headset design. They should be lighter less expensive and we need to enhance"
YouTube Link 2023-11-01T15:30Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"REPLAY Optica Online Industry Meeting on the Quantum Internet. RECORDED LIVE April 29th [----] We had an intense meeting today which was extended to [--] hours to allow everyone to share and ask questions. Optica has asked six prominent industry leaders to lead a discussion on what it will take to build the Quantum Internetand why now is the time to act. THIS FREE MEETING IS MADE POSSIBLE THANKS TO GENEROUS SUPPORT FROM ThinkQuantum. 🎤 Featured Speakers: Noel Goddard CEO Qunnect Matheus Sena Business Expert & R&D Architect for Quantum Networks Deutsche Telekom AG Daniel Gilks Research Program"
YouTube Link 2025-04-29T17:02Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"5.7 Terabit/sec over [---] km WITH FREE SPACE OPTICS. AIRCISION INTERVIEW Yes your eyes do not deceive you. Today were back at the High Tech Campus Eindhoven to follow up with Luis Pedro Oliveira CEO of Optica corporate member Aircision. They are one of Europes most innovative startups in free-space optical communication (no wires needed). They have secured funding and strategic partnerships with organisations like Eindhoven University of Technology TNO Signify Photondelta and SMART photonics As interest in optical wireless surgesespecially after the unveiling of the Taara chip at MWCAircision"
YouTube Link 2025-05-09T17:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"JASON EICHENHOLZ ON HUGE POWER AND LATENCY ADVANTAGES FOR HOLLOW CORE FIBER. Today in another Optica Deep tech interview I link with Jason Eichenholz CEO of Relativity Networks based in Florida. Together with co-founder Rodrigo Amezcua Correa they have developed breakthrough fiber technology that powers their new company. We discuss their landmark partnership with Italian multinational Prysmian to mass-produce hollow-core fiber (HCF)a technology that could reshape the architecture of AI data centres. With HCF offering nearly 50% faster data transmission and extending latency thresholds from"
YouTube Link 2025-03-28T17:13Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Crytur (Czech Republic) Crystal Grand Tour- Secrets of the world's largest Garnets If you know anything about lasers youll find this latest Optica factory visit fascinating. On my way to Laser World of Photonics at Messe Munich I dropped by Crytur in the Czech Republic. I think the story of this strategically important company needs a wider public within the photonics community. CEO and owner Jindich Houvika as well as Jan Bitman and Antonin Fajstavr gave me the grand tour explaining the company's unique position in the global crystal growing industry. They allowed me to film the visit so you"
YouTube Link 2025-06-23T13:08Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Optica Interview QUSIDE at Mobile World Congress [----] LEVEL-4 RNGs for ROBUST PQC FROM Quside. While wandering around Mobile World Congress [----] ( MWC) in Barcelona I got updates from many Optica corporate members like Quside who gave me a glimpse of the new products they will launch in [----]. Quside aim to build the strongest randomness foundation through research engineering and integrating quantum technology. I have followed them since I met Carlos Abellan (CEO- cofounder) and Domenico Tulli (CTO - cofounder) when they were a startup conducting R&D at the Institute of Photonic Sciences"
YouTube Link 2025-03-11T15:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"EDMUND OPTICS APRIL 8-9 [----] - A THANK YOU HEARTFELT THANK YOU FROM Optica. It has been a dramatic and uncertain week for everyone on the planet. Nevertheless I dont want to miss the chance to send a heartfelt THANK YOU to everyone who joined the Optica Industry Summit on Laser Optics at Edmund Optics' newly inaugurated facility in Oldsmar Florida. We had many important and useful discussions. The meeting brought together senior executives and technical leads from across the laser optics value chain to address pressing challenges in scaling laser technologies at a time when global tariff"
YouTube Link 2025-04-16T17:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Jensen Huang CEO NVIDIA @ [----] Standford Institute for Economic Policy Research Summit March 8th In a visionary keynote at the [----] SIEPR Economic Summit Jensen Huang CEO of NVIDIA offered deep insights into the trajectory of AI and computing. He posited the remarkable concept that the cost of computing is approaching zero which has opened the floodgates for AI innovations citing a million-fold reduction in deep learning costs over the past decade. Huang emphasized the expansive future of AI predicting a million-fold increase in computational capabilities within the next decade. He forecasted"
YouTube Link 2024-03-14T10:38Z [---] followers, 37K engagements
"LIGENTEC ANNOUNCES [---] GHZ MODULATION SPEED The spectacular show is over but our deep-tech coverage continues. It was great to catch up with Michael Geiselmann President and CCO of LIGENTEC in Munich a few days ago. They are a key European supplier of Silicon Nitride PICs with facilities in Switzerland and France. Following up on a recent Optica online seminar we discussed how they are targeting customers who specifically need low-loss integrated photonics and want to integrate modulators and photon detectors into their designs. We touched on market hesitation as to whether TFLN and other"
YouTube Link 2025-07-07T10:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Pilot Photonics LAUNCHES [--] channel O-BAND Lasers & a nano-iTLA for coherent datacentres NEWS: Pilot Photonics LAUNCHES [--] channel O-BAND Lasers & a nano-iTLA for coherent datacentre interconnect transceivers. Two new products from Irish scaleup company Pilot Photonics stood out at the recent OFC Conference [----] in San Francisco. My Optica colleague Jon Pugh spoke with Frank Smyth Gaurav Jain and Amol Delmade who shared these updates on camera : Based in Dublin we saw the launch of Pilots first O-band laser products designed to support the growing demand for scalable parallel optics in data"
YouTube Link 2025-04-16T17:13Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"REPLAY: Optica ONLINE INDUSTRY MEETING Fiber Sensing TUESDAY MARCH 25th My colleague Jon Pugh cohosted the Optica Online Industry Meeting on Fiber Sensing where industry leaders will explore the latest advancements and applications in fibre optic sensing technology. Well explore how fibre optic sensing transforms structural health monitoring telecom infrastructure oil and gas and environmental sensing. Breakthroughs now enable real-time monitoring of bridges buildings and other critical structures. And as infrastructure ages this becomes more important while keeping costs down. The main issue"
YouTube Link 2025-03-25T19:10Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Replay of Optica Online Industry Meeting: Precision Agriculture & Food Safety on April [--] [----] 🚜🌾 Replay of Optica Online Industry Meeting: Precision Agriculture & Food Safety on April [--] [----] (10 AM EDT [--] PM UK/IRELAND/PORTUGAL 4PM Central Europe) Leaders in food production agritech and photonics will explore how optical technologies are revolutionizing the entire food cyclefrom field to processing to quality control. Topics include hyperspectral imaging integrated photonics laser-induced fluorescence optical sensing smart food processing robotic weed control cultivated meat IoT and more."
YouTube Link 2025-04-15T17:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"ANOTHER WIN-WIN Collaboration between Twin Photonics and Pixel Photonics. During last weeks Laser World of Photonics and World of Quantum in Messe Muenchen we saw several Optica corporate members coming together to push boundaries and accelerate innovation by working together. Today we're sharing the story of a great example of a spontaneous show floor collaboration between Twin Photonics and Pixel Photonics as witnessed by my Optica colleague Jon Pugh. Both companies provide turn-key plug-and-play scalable commercial products for quantum technologies and beyond. In order of appearance in the"
YouTube Link 2025-07-07T10:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Where Light Meets Digital A Look Inside EFFECT Photonics @ OFC Conference [----]. With CEO Roberto Marcoccia at the helm EFFECT Photonics is redefining how integrated photonic systems are built and scaled to meet the exploding global demand for bandwidth. They believe that integration is key to fast secure data transfer. This vertically integrated company combines proprietary Digital Signal Processing Forward Error Correction and ultra-pure light sources to create compact low-power coherent solutions designed for seamless deployment. By tapping into established microelectronics supply chains"
YouTube Link 2025-04-16T17:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Interview Optica corporate member QTI (Quantum Telecommunications Italy) at Mobile World Congress In the last year Optica corporate member QTI SRL (Quantum Telecommunications Italy) has consolidated its prominent position in the quantum market boosting its international outreach e.g. taking an active part in the OFC-Net project at OFC Conference and Exhibition. This year will be no exception. At Mobile World Congress (MWC) [----] in Barcelona I got the chance to catch up with QTI CEO and cofounder Tommaso Occhipinti to ask him about what their "real-world" offer to telecom operators today. We"
YouTube Link 2025-03-11T15:29Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"HOW THE SETT MANAGES CHIP INVESTMENTS IN SPAIN. On the second day of the Optica Photonics Economic Forum we were delighted to hear from Javier Ponce the General Director of the Spanish Society for Technological Transformation (SETT) where he leads digital transformation and investments in disruptive technology in Spain. He explained the role of SETT highlighting three projects specifically Perte Chip (1225 Billion Euro) FOND-ICO Next and Spain audiovisual hub. He also explained how they operate as a one-stop shop to submit investment proposals. Javier Ponce is the General Director of the"
YouTube Link 2024-10-26T16:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Personal insights from Photonics West San Francisco [----] Were just back from SFO Now the jetlag has worn off let me thank everyone who came up to our team at the Optica VIP reception and at the show. So many friends from the photonics community were there. My Optica industry team colleagues and I got lots of encouragement and feedback thanks to support from corporate members. On the innovation side here are my [--] personal takeaways [--]. Plenty of innovation in High Power Lasers MKS Instruments showed their new water-cooled 150-kilowatt high accuracy very High Power Laser Sensor. When it comes to"
YouTube Link 2025-02-06T18:09Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Femtum FIXES BROKEN CHIPS INCREASING YIELD. In past OFC Conferences we have followed the progress of Optica Corporate member Femtum who does amazing things with 3-micrometer femtosecond lasers. This year they launched their Photonics Wafer Laser Trimming Solution. It addresses the photonics industry problem: costs are high because the yield is low. This system which is built into a ficonTEC machine offers a fast way to fix broken chips So I caught up with Louis-Rafal Robichaud CEO of Femtum to get the live demo. He also explained that the process for automated chip CLEANING is in the advanced"
YouTube Link 2025-04-04T18:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"NO BAD Photonics DieThanks to EXFO 🚨 One key takeaway from last week's Optica Executive Forum at OFC 2025: reliability and yield remain the top concerns for hyperscalers adopting integrated photonics. As industry giants like NVIDIA and Broadcom push the shift from pluggables to co-packaged optics the cost and complexity of replacing faulty modules skyrockets. There's simply no room for failure 🔍 The good news Significant progress has been made in testing and characterization particularly from EXFO an Optica corporate member based in Qubec City Canada. With tienne Gagnon I walked through a"
YouTube Link 2025-04-16T17:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"SINGAPORE SCALEUP SILITH TECHNOLOGY One of the newest Optica corporate members is Singapore scaleup SiLith Technology a 70+ person company specialising in Silicon Photonics. During the OFC Conference [----] I asked Dhonghao Zhang to walk me through [--] demos: [--]. Siliths LiDAR platform is built on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology fully compatible with standard CMOS fabrication. It integrates Frequency-Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) modulators large-scale Optical Phased Arrays (OPAs) and coherent balanced receivers on a single chip. This architecture enables precise directional emission and"
YouTube Link 2025-04-16T17:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"OFC Preview Our most important event of the year has arrived. OFC is the worlds largest conference on optical communications. So with so many attendees in San Diego dont get lost let me share some top trends to watch out for So Number [--] is Advanced pluggable optics. The debate over the future of pluggable optics continues. The goal is to reduce the number of optical transceivers. Less pluggables means less fibers taking less space. The possibility of coherent modules at low cost with high speed is driving this trend. Last year we saw major milestones from Infinera with 400G XR. So what is"
YouTube Link 2023-02-28T20:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"AUREA Technology DEMOES WHY THE FUTURE FOR QKD IS IN SPACE. At last weeks OFC Conference and Exhibition in SFO I went to see demos of OFC's high-speed optical network hashtag#OFCnet. This is a special live network built to showcase emerging technologies including quantum networking AI and networking interoperability for big data/big science applications from industry innovators. And I quickly found Jerome Prieur and Dylan Le Gac from French QKD market leader AUREA Technology. In the video with our Optica corporate member we discuss their Entangled Photon Quantum Distribution solution using"
YouTube Link 2025-04-16T17:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"REPLAY LINK FOR OPTICA Online Industry Meeting on Quantum Key Distribution On Tuesday September 9th [----] Optica hosted an Online Industry Meeting on Quantum Key Distribution. We had a packed-to-capacity Zoom room. Because in todays world of geopolitical tension the need for secure data transmission has never been greater. Participation in this online event was FREE thanks to the generous support from LIGENTEC Optiwave Systems Inc. and ThinkQuantum. ) Earlier this year we saw IonQ a leading quantum computing company move to acquire ID Quantique the market leader in Quantum Key Distribution."
YouTube Link 2025-09-09T16:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"WHY OPTICAL TRANSCEIVERS ARE OFTEN THE WEAKEST LINK IN SECURE NETWORKS. Phillipe Bolle ESTEL Meet Philippe Bolle. We went to visit him in Walcourt e.g. Belgium to understand why its so crucial for Europe to manufacture its own optical transceivers. We recorded an interview which quickly developed into an important landmark message for both CTOs as well as politicians and investors. Today we are releasing part of that conversation. It is too long for Linkedin so it is hosted on YouTube. As CEO of Optica corporate member ESTEL Philippe doesnt mince words: The weakest link in a cyber secure"
YouTube Link 2025-04-24T09:53Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"PHOTONIC AI ACCELERATOR BREAKTHROUGH FROM Q.ANT CEO Dr. Michael Frtsch Time to visit the headquarters of Q.ANT in Stuttgart Germany on my way to Laser World of Photonics. But my reason for visiting is to see (and film) a live demo of their new servers. They are running smoothly on special PCI-Express cards using their Thin-Film Lithium Niobate (TFLN) chips which are manufactured in Stuttgart. After months of tweaking they are rolling out systems that can classify pictures. The beauty of this approach is that Q.ant is fully compatible with other hardware-based AI processing systems today as"
YouTube Link 2025-07-05T20:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Review of Intel announcements in the Summer [----] WHAT DID INTEL JUST ANNOUNCE Wow theres been a lot to take in over the last few days. At the same time I was heading for Denver for Quantum [---]. Optica corporate member Intel Corporation has been making a series of HUGE investment announcements. I note that most TV networks focus on just their national story so heres an international compilation that might be useful in light of our recent discussions on the various Chip's acts. Intel Corporation will spend more than [--] billion euros ($33 billion) to develop two chip-making plants in Magdeburg"
YouTube Link 2023-10-15T10:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"BELGAN TRANSFORMED BY THEMA PHOTONICS- THE FULL STORY SO FAR Today we have a very special interview for you. Ive just interviewed Herwig van Hove who you may know is the entrepreneur investor and one of the directors behind the newly established Thema Foundries. They are in the local news now (end August 2025) because Thema has officially taken over the former BelGaN factory site in the town of Oudenaarde Belgium. BelGaN was trying to become a leading Gallium Nitride foundry. But sadly BelGaN went bankrupt last year when investors withdrew from the project. [---] jobs were lost. However the"
YouTube Link 2025-08-29T17:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"100 KM CV-QKD RECORD BY LuxQuanta ON SHOW IN BARCELONA We continue our booth tours of Optica corporate members at Mobile World Congress (MWC) [----]. I dropped by to meet Sergi Vizcano Fuentes from Spanish deep-tech company LuxQuanta. He showed me how they have achieved a world record with their second generation Continuous Variable Quantum Key Distribution (CV-QKD) system NOVA LQ. They have reached a [---] km breakthrough with their new commercially available system. Governments and banks have been the early adopters of QKD. But other partners are now involved. Telefnica in collaboration with"
YouTube Link 2025-03-11T15:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"MIXX-TECH PLANS FOR SUSTAINABLE AI THE ULTIMATE LINECARD BY [----]. OFC is often the place where new startups launch disruptive technologies. On the Corning Incorporated and US Connect booths I ran into Optica Corporate member Mixx Technologies Inc. They are a pioneer in next-generation optical interconnect solutions and just a year after launch are ready to deploy what they call their Advanced 3DS Platform. This is an ultra-efficient connectivity fabric that redefines AI and high-performance computing infrastructure. The platform includes an intelligent Engine that unifies compute memory and"
YouTube Link 2025-04-16T17:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"OPTICA NEW SPACE ONLINE MEETING FEB [--] [----] 10AM EST REPLAY This is a replay from the live Zoom meeting. Join Olga Raz and me for the next Optica Online industry meeting. Give us [---] minutes and we will give you insights into realistic business opportunities in the world of new space. During the last Cold War space agencies in the US and Russia were handed blank checks. But today new space relies on global market economies to deliver breakthroughs at a fraction of those historic costs. SpaceX STARLINK and Project Kuiper dominate the headlines. But other players like India Japan Nigeria and"
YouTube Link 2024-02-27T19:14Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"CEO PANEL GLOBAL PHOTONICS ECONOMIC FORUM Panelists: John T.C. Lee President & CEO MKS Instruments; Chuck Mattera Former Chair & CEO Coherent; Matt Crowley EVP Jabil; Anders Lindqvist CEO Mycronic"
YouTube Link 2024-10-12T08:56Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Challenges for [----] European Photonics Investments (30 mins) Michael Jackson and Rinke Zonneveld During the recent PIC Summit Europe [----] in Eindhoven there was a very interesting panel discussion on the funding challenges facing both deeptech startups and scales ups. The interview moderated by Irene Rompa explores several important topics. As some budgets tighten because of a possible downturn and complex geopolitics impact deeptech supply lines I think we should revisit some of the fascinating discussions about investments in photonics from just a few weeks back. I am preparing a separate"
YouTube Link 2024-01-04T19:51Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"OFC [----] MAIN TAKEAWAYS AS SEEN BY OPTICA Its a wrap It is time to summarize what we have learned from OFC Conference [----] and follow up with the meaningful connections that we have made. With [-----] registrants from [--] countries and [---] exhibiting companies on the showroom floor plus the Optica Executive Forum brought together the brightest and best. OFC was dominated by AI including NVIDIA's launch of a new chip the week before. At the Optica Executive forum discussions revolved around integrating AI with photonics. Then came a striking elephant in the room. Nvidia showed a comparison"
YouTube Link 2024-04-03T17:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Optica's Improved Corporate Market Intelligence Library Preparing for an upcoming in-person and online meeting Then check out Optica's newly updated Market Intelligence Library and download a few fresh reports. Here are three recent reports as examples. For New Space check out the latest on satellite-based Earth observation. For Quantum Key Distribution pull the report on satellite-enabled IoT. As preparation for the Optica Global Photonics Economic Forum in Mlaga explore the reports on the optoelectronic markets in the Americas and Europe. Having the latest data at hand makes it much easier"
YouTube Link 2025-08-29T16:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"New Photonics Breaking News Demo at ECOC [----] NewPhotonics: Breaking More Limits at ECOC Exhibition 2023: Grab a coffee and reserve time to watch and understand the implications of this demo. You may recognise Yosef Ben-Ezra CTO and Yaniv Ben-Haim of NewPhotonics from their interview with us at OFC Conference [----]. Half a year later and the limits have been broken again. Watch the video because seeing THE demo believing. And I understand more will come at OFC [----]. What a week for photonics. Now onward"
YouTube Link 2023-10-15T16:45Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"VLC Photonics (Hitachi Group) + ficonTEC REVEAL AUTOMATIC DIE-LEVEL TESTING at Laser World The Laser World of Photonics show may be over but the impact of what was unveiled in Munich this past week will resonate well beyond it. The Optica Collaboration Interview. In the Integrated Photonics Area Iigo Artundo the CEO of VLC Photonics Hitachi Group and Torsten Vahrenkamp CEO of ficonTEC showcased their next-generation platform for automated die-level testing and assembly of photonic integrated circuits (PICs). The fully automated system due to be commissioned soon at VLCs new cleanroom facility"
YouTube Link 2025-07-07T10:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"QUANTUM ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM Telefnica at Mobile World Congress [----] At Mobile World Congress MWC in Barcelona this week we dropped by the stand of the Spanish multinational telecom company Telefnica. It was devoted to Quantum-Safe Networks. Quantum computing promises to revolutionise many sectors accelerating major advances in fields such as medicine and scientific research but it is also expected to have the ability to break the cryptography that protects current security. But what about Telefonica's activities today Quantum-protected open networks For example there is already a need to"
YouTube Link 2025-03-11T15:33Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"EPIPHANY PROFILE & HETEROGENEOUS PLATFORM LAUNCH At OFC Conference [----] my Optica colleague Jon Pugh spoke with Jrn Epping CEO of Optica corporate member Epiphany Design a leading European photonic design house. Based in Enschede in the Eastern part of the Netherlands Epiphany operates a fabless model offering complete design flexibility across all major PIC platformssilicon silicon nitride indium phosphide lithium niobate and more. At OFC they launched their Hybrid Laser Design Module and also a new heterogeneous photonics integration platform that combines the strengths of InP and"
YouTube Link 2025-04-16T17:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Malaga RTO Discussion October 1st [----] Tjark Tjin-A-Tsoi CEO TNO and Luc Van den hove CEO imec UNDERSTANDING STRATEGIES OF TWO EUROPEAN RTOs. If your photonics company (large or small) does business with either TNO or imec then this panel discussion on the first day of the Optica Global Economics Forum in Malaga will definitely interest you. Both are large Research and Technology organisations in the Netherlands and Belgium respectively. Moderator Jim Kafka president-elect of Optica moderated a discussion with Tjark Tjin-A-Tsoi CEO of TNO and Luc Van den Hove CEO of imec focusing on the"
YouTube Link 2024-10-21T11:53Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"REPLAY Optica ONLINE MEETING QUANTUM COMMS JAN 21st [----]. Quantum communication promises to deliver secure communication networks. But how close are we to making the quantum internet a reality And what challenges still stand in the way Jose Pozo and Jon Pugh welcome a superb list of industry speakers to discuss the current status of quantum communications in the latest instalment of our Optica Online Industry Meetings. Join us and bring your questions for a live interactive session sponsored by ThinkQuantum and Optiwave Systems Inc. where we'll take a deep dive into the strategies shaping"
YouTube Link 2025-01-21T17:48Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"NewPhotonics DOES IT AGAIN BREAKING NEWS: NewPhotonics DOES IT AGAIN They have shocked the photonics industry two years in a row at OFC Conference and Exhibition [----] demoing their incredible speeds per channel using bare silicon modulators. This year NewPhotonics launched a new pluggable module: the NewPhotonics equalizer. It is able to magically flatten the spectral response of their LPO module. For me seeing is believing so watch the private demo below they gave to Optica. Thank you Yosef Ben-Ezra (CTO) and Yaniv Ben-Haim (CEO) for letting me witness how the text OFC2025 message was"
YouTube Link 2025-04-04T11:28Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Optica Online Industry Meeting SEEING THE INVISIBLE: Photonics for Medical Imaging August 26th [----] Next-generation photonic tools are transforming clinical imaging by providing clinicians with non-ionising high-resolution tools to see deeper act faster and treat more precisely. All while improving patient comfort and outcomes. What we expect to discuss Endoscopy and surgical visualisation the cornerstone of real-time minimally invasive imaging for ENT urology oncology and beyond Laser-based and OCT diagnostics enabling high-resolution non-invasive insights for earlier detection and targeted"
YouTube Link 2025-08-26T16:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"REPLAY of Optica ONLINE MEETING ON NUCLEAR FUSION Sept 24th at 10AM EST Heres your chance to review an unusual Optica Online Industry meeting. We welcomed 150+ people to the live event in our Zoom room. On Tuesday September 24th we have an exciting opportunity to delve into one of the most promising frontiers of energy innovationnuclear fusion. I think its a fascinating discussion you won't want to miss. Maybe you remember a press conference held in December [----] by physicists at the National Ignition Facility part of the US Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. They announced a significant"
YouTube Link 2024-09-24T16:01Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Wednesday Discovery at OFC - Newphotonics and LGBTQI+ Tuesday is always RUMP day at OFC And this year did not disappoint. The room was packed as I had never seen before and we discussed the need (or not) for new materials in Silicon Photonics. The conclusion is that we need to be more inclusive. Thanks to IMECs Wim Bogaerts for your vision: Silicon Photonics has gone LGBTQI+ Lithium Niobate Graphene Barium Titanate Transfer Printing QDs InP + (and the plus includes polymer and plasmonics). But seriously on the show floor of this years OFC the overall theme is capacity how much data per second"
YouTube Link 2023-10-11T20:31Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"FRENCH WELINQ INTERCONNECTS QUANTUM PROCESSORS TO INCREASE COMPUTE POWER DRASTICALLY. I am currently in The Hague the Netherlands where Optica is joining the Inside Quantum Technology conference. I have met several Optica Corporate members who have updated me on what scaleups need next in order to grow. Of course stable funding is important. But so are serious industrial partners and market intelligence to judge WHEN to scale-up. I enjoyed meeting Eleni Diamanti Co-founder of Paris-based Welinq. Their quantum link solution relies on using quantum memories to synchronize the signals emitted by"
YouTube Link 2024-04-24T08:33Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"SCOTT KEENEY KEYNOTE @ GLOBAL PHOTONICS ECONOMIC FORUM We are starting our coverage of the Optica Global Photonics Economic Forum. We will post the full versions of keynotes on Youtube since they last around [--] minutes. A truncated version of the same keynote will be posted on Linkedin (15 minute limit) with a link to the Youtube posting. In the section of the meeting on defense we saw a keynote from Scott Keeney. Since founding nLight in [----] Scott has led this public company to become a global leader in high-power semiconductor and fiber lasers. enabling next-generation applications once"
YouTube Link 2025-10-17T15:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"WHATS THE IMEC ROADMAP FOR SILICON PHOTONICS INTERVIEW WITH Philippe Absil. It was great to catch a few minutes today (May 20th 2025) with Philippe Absil VP of imec.IC-link. He is speaking at this years ITF World the main showcase and partner event organised by imec in Antwerp Belgium. In our deep-tech interview with this highly active Optica corporate member we discuss whats driving silicon photonics development at imec: [---] G per lane is the focus together with Thin Film Lithium Niobate integration and more advanced detectors to reach over [---] GHz bandwidth. This Heterogeneous Integration"
YouTube Link 2025-05-20T19:28Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT THE OPTICA PECC SUMMIT DAY ONE at Juniper Networks. Report [--]. Weve come to the end of Day [--] of the second annual PECC summit in Silicon Valley organised by Optica with strong support from the Advanced Photonics Coalition . We want to create stronger bonds between optical companies large and small. Although we did not record sessions to encourage open discussion I did grab a few words from several people during the reception last night (what a spectacular venue they found). See if you can spot David Piehler from Dell Technologies John C. Mein Tartan Silicon Systems"
YouTube Link 2023-11-01T14:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"KWAN-TEK: IS THIS THE WORLDS SMALLEST DIAMOND QUANTUM SENSOR Judge for yourself in the video below. In Hall A1.322 ( World of Quantum) at Laser World of Photonics we found the stand of Optica corporate member KWAN-TEK. Based in Western France they develop and industrialize a wide range of high-tech highly-sensitive stable and robust instruments based on the quantum and optics properties of NV center diamonds. They represent a new generation of metrology solutions for applications in both academic research and industry. KWAN-TEK was founded in October [----] by Remi Geiger who opens our"
YouTube Link 2025-07-07T10:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"UNLIMITED BANDWIDTH POSSIBLE Mahesh Krishnaswamy the CEO of Taara Taara SILICON PHOTONICS CALL FOR COLLABORATION TO ACHIEVE UNLIMITED BANDWIDTH. On the last day of OFC Conference [----] I grabbed some quality time with Mahesh Krishnaswamy the CEO of Taara. This wireless optical communications vendor is celebrating its graduation from Googles X The Moonshot Factory with an unspecified amount of financing from Series X Capital. That means Taara is no longer a bet within X but an independent company with a mission to help solve the worlds connectivity problems. Grab a coffee and watch the video if"
YouTube Link 2025-04-04T11:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"DISCUSSION WITH Dr. Michael Frtsch. WHY Q.ANTs NEW PILOT LINE IS KEY TO THEIR SUCCESS. A few weeks ago Q.ANT a photonic AI chip company based in Stuttgart Germany announced a new pilot line capable of producing [----] wafers yearly. This milestone was covered in a reportage by public broadcaster ARD-TV. They are upcycling the existing CMOS production facility at the Institute of Microelectronics Stuttgart (IMS CHIPS) marking a significant semiconductor manufacturing milestone. Q.ANTs photonic chips promise to deliver a 30-fold increase in energy efficiency and a 50-fold boost in computing"
YouTube Link 2025-05-16T12:36Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"DISCUSSION WITH Dr. Michael Frtsch. WHY Q.ANTs NEW PILOT LINE IS KEY TO THEIR SUCCESS. A few weeks ago Q.ANT a photonic AI chip company based in Stuttgart Germany announced a new pilot line capable of producing [----] wafers yearly. Public broadcaster ARD-TV covered this milestone in a reportage. They are upcycling the existing CMOS production facility at the Institute of Microelectronics Stuttgart (IMS CHIPS) marking a significant semiconductor manufacturing milestone. Q.ANTs photonic chips promise to deliver a 30-fold increase in energy efficiency and a 50-fold boost in computing speed."
YouTube Link 2025-03-27T18:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"EULITHA INTERVIEW: THE ADVANTAGES OF Displacement Talbot Lithography. Next week EULITHA's CEO Harun Solak will speak at the Optica Global Advanced Manufacturing Alliance (GAMA) meeting in Heidelberg Germany scheduled for May [----] [----]. By way of a preview my colleague Helena Diez-y-Riega spoke with Kelsey Wooley who directs their North American operations. They spoke during the recent OFC Conference [----]. Optica corporate member EULITHA AG is a Swiss nanolithography company advancing photonics manufacturing with its proprietary Displacement Talbot Lithography (DTL) technology. DTL enables"
YouTube Link 2025-05-08T11:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The urgent need for PetaScale Cloud Computing and the role of photonics. Jayshree Ullal OFC [----] Today Id like to highlight an excellent keynote on PetaScale Cloud Networking given at the recent plenary session of OFC2023. Optica is one of the organisers. If youre working in Photonics and havent watched it then now is the time to review it. Thats because especially the second half of the talk is especially topical. Almost every platform is discussing the impact of Generative Pre-trained Transformer language models. GPT uses deep learning to generate human-like conversational text. Less"
YouTube Link 2023-10-21T13:45Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"Day ONE: Impressions from Optica Agriphotonics Industry Summit in Fargo North Dakota USA. IMPRESSIONS DAY ONE: Hello from Grand Farm and the first Optica Agriphotonics Industry Summit in Fargo North Dakota USA. Let us share some impressions of the first day from some of many participants. Its a fascinating range of people farmers system integrators photonic companies and equipment manufacturers. In the video below we spoke with: Neil Ball CTO Directed Light Inc. Tina O'Connor Exosens Bobby Azad AI Specialist Agtegra Cooperative Dominic Nagy Invences Inc. Venky Swaminathan Trilogy Networks Inc"
YouTube Link 2025-06-17T17:48Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Aircision Free Space Optics AT MWC BARCELONA [----] It was great to catch up with Luis Pedro Oliveira (CEO) and Roland Blok CTO of Aircision for a chat about what this deep-tech startup is planning next. They have been working with Eindhoven University of Technology on high bandwidth ultra fast optical links (1.2 Tbps). Free Space Optics uses light to transmit data. For decades FSO has been largely used in satellite communication and private enterprise networks. The industry recognizes the upside of FSO as it is easy and fast to deploy has very high bandwidth potential and does not require"
YouTube Link 2025-03-11T15:36Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Panel: Chinas evolving role in the global photonics industry On October 2nd in Malaga we had two related discussions about Chinas evolving role in the global photonics industry. We started with remarks on IP from Robert Harrison CEO of Sonnenberg Harrison. This was followed by the China Panel moderated by Christoph Pfistner VP of Avicena Tech. The panellists: Huiyao Wang Founder & President CCG based in Beijing; Michael Hochberg CEO Periplous; Rodger Baker Executive Director Stratfor Center for Applied Geopolitics"
YouTube Link 2024-10-26T17:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Pushing the Boundaries of Quantum Networking with MemQ's xQNA At OFC Conference [----] my colleague Jon Piugh spoke to Sean Sullivan Co-Founder and CTO at Optica Corporate Member memQ at their OFCnet kiosk. memQ is making significant strides in quantum networking through the development of its extensible Quantum Network Architecture (xQNA).This innovative framework aims to facilitate scalable modular quantum networks by integrating solid-state quantum memory with photonic components. With deep PhD-level expertise in the company in both the theory an practical realizations of quantum systems and"
YouTube Link 2025-04-16T17:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Optica AgriPhotonics Industry Summit June 10th/11th at Grand Farm Innovation Campus North Dakota Photonics and AI are redefining whats possible in agriculture not just in the lab but in the field. Thats why we invite you to join us for the Optica AgriPhotonics Industry Summit taking place June 10th and 11th at the Grand Farm Innovation Campus in Fargo North Dakota co-located with the CULTIVATE Conference Sponsored by PhotonDelta this summit brings together leaders in photonics AI and agriculture to explore whats truly possible and what the industry actually needs. This is not just about"
YouTube Link 2025-05-13T17:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"GLOBAL PHOTONICS REMINDER: TAKE ADVANTAGE OF US BEFORE AUGUST 7th AND SAVE. I am in #Malaga again and I have a message from outside the Balenario de Nuestra Seora del Carmen the location for a special Optica dinner on October 7th [----]. I am working hard with my team throughout the summer to ensure the delivery of a superb second edition of the Optica Global Photonics Economic Forum (October 7th & 8th). We are only [--] months away I am delighted to report that the agenda is now finalised. Watch the video below for details. Then sign up to join us. Here's the UPDATE AND THE SPECIAL OFFER: Weve"
YouTube Link 2025-07-30T21:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"NVIDIA s PLANS FOR SILICON PHOTONICS REVEALED MARCH [--] -VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS. Just ahead of Opticas Executive Forum in SFO during OFC Conference on March 31st [----] CEO Jensen Huang revealed NVIDIAs roadmap for Silicon Photonics. As you may recall from last year's OFC and the Optica PECC Summit [----] a main topic of discussion was how and when silicon photonics would replace copper in datacenters. THE SILICON PHOTONICS HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE KEYNOTE During his keynote at the GTC AI Conference in San Jose March 18th [----] Jensen showed us NVIDIAs Silicon Photonics roadmap. He discusses the limitations"
YouTube Link 2025-03-18T21:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"REPLAY; OPTICA Online Industry Meeting on New Space September 23rd. Here is the chance to watch the replay of our meeting on Tuesday September [--] [----]. The space sector is shifting fast. Data demands are rising security is crucial and sustainability is a priority. On Sept. [--] we explored how optics and photonics make space systems smaller lighter more power-efficientand faster to deploy. Here are some of the takeaways I noted from the meeting. I found it fascinating that ESA & Mbryonics called for extending and diversifying the supply chain - there seem to be hidden issues. [--]. ESA openly"
YouTube Link 2025-09-23T18:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"MORE ON Quantifi Photonics AQUISTION; INTERVIEW IANNICK MONFILS CEO A few days ago we posted the news that Optica corporate member Quantifi Photonics based in Auckland New Zealand was being acquired by Teradyne based in the USA. Since Quantifi will be very active at the upcoming OFC Conference [----] in San Francisco I linked up with Iannick Monfils CEO and co-founder to determine how this development will affect the company and ask if it is a win-win for both parties. He outlines two reasons why the match with Teradyne answers challenges from the photonics and Cloud AI markets as well as"
YouTube Link 2025-03-21T13:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"MALAGA GPEF Keynote 2: Matt Crowley JABIL In Malaga we were pleased to welcome Matt Crowley EVP of Intelligent Infrastructure at Jabil one of the world's leading manufacturing solution providers. With over [------] employees across more than [---] facilities globally Jabil is critical in delivering cutting-edge technologies. The company's work in photonics in particular is transformative. They enable advancements crucial for global communication automotive systems and healthcare diagnostics. In Matts time at Jabil he has pioneered new business models enabling manufacturing at scale. His"
YouTube Link 2024-10-11T08:12Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Analog Modules Inc. PREMIERES TWO NEW PRODUCTS: My colleague Technical Director for Lasers Helena Diez-y-Riega was curious to see what was new at the stand of Optica Corporate Member Analog Modules Inc. Based near Orlando in Florida AMI designs and manufactures a wide range of analog electronic products for the laser and electro-optics industries. At last weeks Laser World of Photonics AMI was showcasing two new products in front of our cameras. Bruce Soileau walks us through both of them. [--]. An incredibly versatile controller for a flashlamp laser. Ideal for prototyping or laboratory use. It"
YouTube Link 2025-07-07T11:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"WHY IS IRISH MBRYONICS STARCOM OPTICAL SYSTEM DIFFERENT Unstable geopolitics means that many countries' telecom companies and defence agencies are examining security and vulnerabilities in their satellite systems. So ahead of OFC Conference [----] and the Optica Executive Forum (Monday March 31st https://lnkd.in/dHZH4KQm ) this is a good time to speak with Optica corporate member MBRYONICS a 10-year-old Irish scaleup working on space-based optical internet communications. This family-owned company was founded by brothers and sisters Ruth Mackey John Mackey and David Mackey. The Mbryonic's first"
YouTube Link 2025-03-29T10:35Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Peter Kirkegaard CEO IMT has reasons for joining the Optica Global Advanced Manufacturing Alliance. MORE STRONG ARGUMENTS FOR ESTABLISHING Opticas Global Advanced Manufacturing Alliance. On Tuesday January 14th [----] at [--] am ET (3 PM UK/Ireland/Portugal [--] PM Central Europe) my colleague Olga Raz and I will chair a (free) Optica online industry meeting to discuss the next stage for a Global Advanced Manufacturing Alliance. Register with this link: https://lnkd.in/deU9VFsB. In response to my call for comments and active participants Im pleased to announce that Peter Kirkegaard CEO of IMT"
YouTube Link 2025-01-08T14:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Optalysys: THE NVIDIA OF SECURE COMPUTING. At the recent #ITF2024 organised by imec in the centre of Antwerp we heard from captains of industry in the semiconductor space. But I think it was significant that many of the rising stars that are scaling up now were keen to point out the important role that Silicon Photonics will play in AI. Nick New the CEO and founder of Leeds-based Optalysys gave Optica a fascinating insight into how they use photonics to enable privacy-preserving data exchange at scale with encrypted computing. Here's what's happening. The Reason for FHE and a current problem"
YouTube Link 2024-05-27T21:05Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"NLM Photonics: FIRST COMMERCIAL DEMO OF A SILICON-ORGANIC HYBRID on a multi-channel PIC. One advantage of the OFC Conference is being able to meet Optica Corporate members from all over the world just by walking around the exhibition. My Optica Colleague Jon Pugh took a camera to meet Brad Booth CEO of NLM Photonics. Based in Seattle Washington they are a leader in hybrid organic electro-optic (OEO) technology. Jon wanted to see the demo of their groundbreaking [---] Terabit DR8 photonic integrated circuit (PIC). This demonstration represents a significant commercialization milestone for hybrid"
YouTube Link 2025-04-16T16:56Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"DAY [--] REPORT: Optica AgriPhotonics Summit Grand Farm Fargo North Dakota USA June 10/11 [----] MY TAKEAWAYS FROM THE Optica AgriPhotonics Summit. As photonics continues to reshape the future of agriculture this week weve been to Grand Farm near Fargo North Dakota USA. Maybe you saw some of the feedback in other reports here on LinkedIn This summit has brought together many leading innovators from across farming technology and research to focus on a key question: What challenges must our industry solve soon to truly scale photonics in agriculture Here are the six challenges I believe we must"
YouTube Link 2025-06-17T17:51Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"NEXT STEPS FOR SMART PHOTONICS IN A CHALLENGING WORLD. Today were joined by Johan Feenstra CEO of Optica corporate member SMART Photonics. They are Europes only pure-play foundry for indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits. We visited their facilities on the High Tech Campus Eindhoven a few days ago. With AI accelerating demand for high-speed low-energy connectivity indium phosphide is becoming a key strategic material. In this extended interview on Youtube well explore how SMART is planning to scale-up production in The Netherlands to produce 10-20 thousand [--] inch InP wafers what"
YouTube Link 2025-05-04T20:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"ID Quantique MOVES CLOSER TO IonQ AND HAS PLANS FOR PLUGGABLE. Walking around the OFC Conference & Exhibition this week we spoke with Marc Nikles Chief Revenue Officer at the Geneva based ID Quantique. They were in the news back in February when ID Quantique (IDQ) SK Group Koreas leading ICT company and IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) a leader in quantum computing and networking announced that they had reached a definitive agreement for IonQ to acquire a controlling stake of IDQ. In our video interview below we discuss how they will scale quantum computing faster using photonics qubits. Quantum Key"
YouTube Link 2025-04-04T18:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"JOIN ME IN EINDHOVEN for the PICSUMMIT Nov 7/8. [----] JOIN ME IN EINDHOVEN for the PICSUMMIT Nov 7/8. The PIC community is evolving fast. It is partly driven by large corporations like Cisco Arista Networks Nokia ASML Intel Corporation Tower Semiconductor Coherent Corp. or NVIDIA. But we also need to keep the innovative start-ups in the spotlight. But although chips are constantly in the mainstream news this is not the time to relax. There are new discussions about e-waste and sustainable production (see TracXon for more details). What are the best materials to use And where will they come"
YouTube Link 2023-10-15T17:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"FIVE MINUTES WITH Andreas Andy Bechtolsheim OFC INSIGHTS: FIVE MINUTES WITH Andreas Andy Bechtolsheim the Chairman Chief Development Officer and Co-Founder of Arista Networks. He was also a speaker at this years Optica Executive forum in Session 5: Photonic Interconnects in AI Clusters. Since the forum is deliberately a closed session we caught up with Andy on the OFC Conference & Exhibition floor to ask his opinion on what hes seen here this week in San Francisco. In this deep-tech chat we discuss the next steps for 1.6TB pluggable modules. Will it dominate the market by 2Q [----] Could we"
YouTube Link 2025-04-04T11:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"ALUVIA PHOTONICS ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP WITH Nokia Time for booth visits and demos. My Optica colleague Jon Pugh went to their stand (Booth #6166) in the Dutch pavilion at this week's OFC Conference & Exhibition [----] in San Francisco. In our video conversation below you will get the latest on their Erbium Doped Waveguide Amplifiers (EDWAs) for integrated photonics in optical communications. Their team - Ward Hendriks (CTO) and Steve Stoffels (CEO) are on hand until April 3rd to discuss EDWA breakthrough performance metrics integration strategies and joint development opportunities. They have"
YouTube Link 2025-04-04T11:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"AI Data Center Boom: TTM CEO Edwin Roks on PCBs Photonics and the $185B AI Spend What happens to the electronics supply chain when Big Tech commits up to $185 billion to AI infrastructure On February [--] [----] shares of TTM Technologies jumped more than 7% after reports that Alphabet plans massive AI data-center spending. The logic is simple: AI chips dont float. Every processor optical module and RF component must be integrated onto advanced printed circuit boards and high-density subsystems. Just days earlier TTM reported strong Q4 results with sales up 19% year-on-year driven by data-center"
YouTube Link 2026-02-13T07:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"THE IMPACT OF GLOBALFOUNDRIES ACQUISITIONS OF AMF IN SINGAPORE AND INFINLINK IN CAIRO ON PHOTONICS Hello from Sydney. Its summer here. And were kicking off another Optica Global Tour. Over the next few weeks well be part of global discussions and visiting corporate members on the ground as we go. But today I want to share something timely. Weve just completed an interview that looks at a series of acquisitions that significantly changes the silicon photonics landscape. On November 17th [----] GlobalFoundries announced the acquisition of Advanced Micro Foundry in Singapore. Just ten days later"
YouTube Link 2026-02-11T18:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"REPLAY: Optica ONLINE INDUSTRY MEETING LASER BEAM SHAPING February [--] [----] THIS LIVE MEETING WAS BROADCAST ON February [--] [----] 10:0011:30 ET 3PM UK IRELAND 4PM Central Europe: Background Laser beam shaping is one of those technologies that quietly decides whether an industrial laser process is robust or fragile. It drives real outcomes: throughput edge quality heat-affected zone repeatability and ultimately cost per part. In this third Optica Online Industry Meeting of [----] we focus on deployable beam-shaping techniques and the trade-offs that matter in production environments: stability"
YouTube Link 2026-02-11T06:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"REPLAY: OPTICA ONLINE INDUSTRY MEETING ON HETEROGENEOUS INTEGRATION JAN 27th [----] This video starts with a 5-minute overview of upcoming Optica events in [----] and an intro to the discussion. In this meeting we will bring together industry leaders to discuss challenges ahead for Heterogeneous integration in silicon photonics. This is no longer an academic discussion. Its about what can actually be built to a deadline tested and manufactured at scale. Well look at some of the real bottlenecks like Alignment. Thermal management. Process integration. Yield and reliability. You may have seen some"
YouTube Link 2026-01-28T14:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"OPTICA VIP RECEPTION KEYNOTE JOHN T.C. LEE MKS Inc. Given Monday January 19th [----] San Francisco. SUMMARY: At the Optica VIP reception at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art John T.C. Lee President and CEO of MKS Incorporated delivered a world-class keynote on why advanced packaging has become the new system bottleneck in AI. Lee positioned MKS as a foundational infrastructure provider. $3.8B revenue. Technologies embedded in 85% of wafer-fab equipment and 70% of critical advanced packaging and PCB steps. His core message was blunt: semiconductor scaling alone is no longer enough. AI"
YouTube Link 2026-01-20T10:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Optica ONLINE INDUSTRY MEETING: January 13th [----] on LIGHTING Background Lighting is no longer just about illumination. Materials innovation new emitters connectivity and system integration are all reshaping how lighting is designed manufactured and deployed at scale. This free-to-attend Optica Online Industry Meeting brings together companies working at critical pressure points of the lighting value chain. From new light-source architectures and OLED manufacturing to quantum-dot materials and free-space optical communication the focus is firmly on what is commercially viable now and what"
YouTube Link 2026-01-14T07:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINS UNDER PRESSURE: A FRANK DISCUSSION IN MALAGA We have now released the full one-hour recording of Panel [--] from the Global Photonics Economic Forum in Malaga filmed on October [--] [----]. After a brief welcome from Opticas [----] President Jim Kafka the session opens with a clear data-driven briefing from Abhijit Mahindroo Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company. At the suggestion of Chuck Mattera former CEO of Coherent and now CEO of Avalanche Thinking Abhijit flew from New York to Malaga to outline where global supply chain risks are building and how they affect scaling photonics"
YouTube Link 2025-12-11T10:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"REPLAY: Optica ONLINE MEETING: Quantum Computing: What the Photonics Industry Needs to Deliver Next On Tuesday [--] November [----] the season finale of the Optica Online Industry Meeting returned to one of the most dynamic frontiers of technology quantum computing. This year has been a defining one for IonQ marked by major acquisitions and breakthroughs toward the first ion-based quantum computer. We asked Jeremy Sage Senior Director of Technology at IonQ how the photonics industry can help build the next generation of ion-based quantum systems. Hell join a panel of senior experts shaping the"
YouTube Link 2025-11-18T21:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"15 Takeways from the 4th Quantum Industry Summit in Bristol November 11/12 [----] During the spectacular diner pensant underneath the wing of a Concorde plane I did the traditional dance to chat with some of the many interesting people who attended the Optica Quantum Industry Summit at Msheds in Bristol November [--] and 12th. The result was not only a test for our noise reduction software but it is nearly [--] minutes long. However if you are curious what your colleagues thought of the sessions and what they took away check out this long version on YouTube (In order of appearance) we spoke with:"
YouTube Link 2025-11-17T17:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"PHOTONICS AT THE FRONT LINE: HOW DEFENCE AND SECURITY DEMANDS ARE RESHAPING OUR INDUSTRY Drones shutting down airports in Western Europe have made something clear: defence and security are no longer edge-case topics for the photonics community. They are central to the next wave of investment supply-chain resilience sensing innovation and laser-based countermeasures. At the recent Global Photonics Economic Forum we released Scott Keeneys keynote on the accelerating dual-use nature of photonics. Following his remarks he joined the opening panel on security and defence. The video begins with a"
YouTube Link 2025-11-13T09:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"LEADERSHIP INTERVIEW WITH LIGHTMATTER CEO Nick Harris: SCALING AI WITH LIGHT NOT COPPER. After the recent PECC Summit I got the chance to sit down for a deep-tech interview with Nick Harris CEO of Lightmatter. In the video we discuss how the company (a startup valued in March [----] at $4.4 billion) is redefining computing through silicon photonics. This version is the [--] minute original. Harris explains why micro-ring resonatorstiny optical modulators just [----] m in sizeare central to Lightmatters architecture. These devices deliver exceptional bandwidth density and energy efficiency but"
YouTube Link 2025-11-12T09:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"MALAGA PANEL SESSION 3: NEW STRATEGIES FOR PHOTONICS TO PROFIT FROM SEMICON As well as [--] keynotes during the two-day forum (October [--] & 8th) there were seven panel sessions during last months Optica Global Photonics Economic Forum in Malaga Spain. The afternoon of the first day kicked off with Panel 3: New strategies for Photonics profit from Semicon. Moderated by me (Jose Pozo) we welcomed [--] leaders to the stage. This full session (55 minutes) includes the Q&A Panellists Greg Bartlett CTO GlobalFoundries Chuck Mattera former CEO Coherent Sanjai Parthasarathi Coherent Chief Marketing Officer"
YouTube Link 2025-11-09T16:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"KEYNOTE MALAGA:Jennifer Cable Thorlabs This keynote was given on October 8th at the Optica Global Photonics Economic Forum. The next keynote speaker in this series of eight is Jennifer Cable President of Thorlabs. Founded in [----] the company has its headquarters in Newton New Jersey and [--] offices overseas. Jennifer is an established 2nd-generation family business leader who guides Thorlabs in strengthening its role as a global leader. They deliver over [-----] products that power research industry and innovation. Thorlabs is known worldwide for its components imaging systems lasers and quantum"
YouTube Link 2025-11-09T07:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"KEYNOTE MALAGA: Mark Gitin CEO IPG PHOTONICS Since taking the helm Mark has guided IPG through a rapidly changing global landscape reinforcing its position as the world leader in fiber laser technology. Today Mark will share how IPG is turning disruption into advantage. Like a [----] watt single mode laser allows welding of steel up to [--] mm thick. Theyre adapting handheld systems for higher throughpout and cobot automation to reduce costs in aerospace defense medical and clean technologies. Under Marks leadership IPG has expanded from being a product maker to becoming a solutions"
YouTube Link 2025-11-09T07:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"KEYNOTE MALAGA: Jo De Boeck Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at imec. The Opening keynote at the 2nd Global Photonics Economic Forum is from Jo De Boeck Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at imecthe worlds leading independent R&D center for nanoelectronics and photonics. The keynote was given on the morning of October 7th [----]. Since joining in [----] Jo has held key roles including CTO led the Smart Systems & Energy Division and directed imecs Holst Centre. He now drives imecs global strategy. Today Jo will share imecs strategic vision connecting"
YouTube Link 2025-11-09T06:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"REPLAY Optica Online Industry Meeting on Laser Cutting and Drilling Nov 4rh [----] + Challenge. This is a second chance to watch the Optica Online Industry Meeting on Laser Cutting and Drilling Technologies. This 90-minute meeting took place on Tuesday November 4th at [--] a.m. Easterni.e. [--] p.m. Central European winter time. This session explores the latest advancements in laser cutting and drilling technologies two areas transforming industrial manufacturing in aerospace automotive electronics and medical devices. Laser cutting uses a focused beam to melt or vaporise material along a precise"
YouTube Link 2025-11-08T10:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"KEYNOTE FROM FICTION TO DEPLOYMENT: Christina Hirschl CEO SAL Austria Todays keynote from the recent Optica Global Photonics Economic Forum is Christina Hirschl Chief Executive Officer of Silicon Austria Labs (SAL). This is Austrias leading research and technology organization. SAL is home to state-of-the-art cleanroom facilities and advanced packaging technologies supporting companies with design expertise and top engineering talent. Its mission is clear: to transform cutting-edge research into market-ready innovation. Christina Hirschl leads SAL with a vision for Europes futurewhere"
YouTube Link 2025-11-01T15:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"KEYNOTE MALAGA: Michael Klug Director of Hardware at Google. This recording is part of a series of [--] keynotes given at the [----] Optica Global Photonics Economic Forum. This keynote comes from Michael Klug Director of Optical Hardware at Google. Michael leads teams developing the next generation of consumer technologies that shape how we live work learn and connect. Today he will show how photonics underpins Googles vision of AI helpfulnessenabling products that enrich everyday human experience. From AndroidXR and light-field displays to new wearables that span immersive reality to all-day"
YouTube Link 2025-10-29T17:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"REPLAY OF Optica Online Industry Meeting on AR & VR October 28th [----]. In Mlaga during the Optica Global Photonics Economic Forum we heard a keynote from Michael Klug of Google He gave us a glimpse into the rapidly evolving field of Extended Reality. On Tuesday October 28th we took that conversation further during the Optica Online Industry Meeting on Augmented and Virtual Reality. As XR technology expands into new applications there is heavy demand for innovation in headset design as display performance is accelerating. Developers are pushing to make headsets lighter more affordable and"
YouTube Link 2025-10-29T17:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"REPLAY OCTOBER 14th Optica Online Industry Meeting on PHOTONICS-ENABLED AI. First a THANK YOU. Following the success of the Global Photonics Economic Forum in Malaga last week powered by more [---] human beings its now time for the replay of the live Optica Online Industry Meeting on Photonics-enabled AI. It was broadcast on October 14th [----]. Brief Background to the Meeting Artificial Intelligence is pushing the limits of conventional electronics. Two new data centres open in the US every week adding to [----] sites already operational. But AI data centers may soon consume 12% of all US"
YouTube Link 2025-10-21T20:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"LAST CALL Optica Quantum Industry Summit [----] NOVEMBER [--] & [--] [----] in Bristol UK ARE YOU ON THE LIST FOR THE Optica Quantum Industry Summit [----] NOVEMBER [--] & [--] [----] My colleague Jon Pugh has been to Aerospace Bristol. It is the home of Concorde Alpha Foxtrotthe last Concorde built and the last to fly. At the upcoming Optica Quantum Industry Summit [----] well dine directly beneath her. If you attended last year youll know that the dinner and corridor conversation are what set us apart. We will have [--] SPEAKERS: Aaron Albores Mejia CEO CUbIQ Technologies Alberto Peruzzo VP Next Generation"
YouTube Link 2025-10-21T16:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"KEYNOTE: Marisa Edmund CEO & Chairman Edmund Optics. We are continuing our coverage of the Optica Global Photonics Economic Forum. We will post the full versions of keynotes on Youtube since they last around [--] minutes. Ladies and gentlemen please welcome Marisa Edmund Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Edmund Optics. Marisa represents the third generation of leadership in a family company that has grown into a global force in optics and photonics. Today Marisa will speak about how Edmund Optics is adapting to a shifting geopolitical landscapewhere export restrictions tariffs and defense"
YouTube Link 2025-10-19T08:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"CEO Panel Discussion Global Photonics Economic Forum [----] It's already a tradition for a CEO Panel session at the end of the first day of the forum. Chaired as usual by Michael Lebby member of the Optica Board this year the line-up was John T.C. Lee CEO MKS Inc Marisa Edmund CEO Edmund Optics Stefan Traeger CEO JENOPTIK Mark Gitin CEO IPG Photonics Jennifer Cable President Thorlabs Photonics Optics Quantum Deep-tech Laser PIC Silicon Photonics Displays LED Lighting Microscopy Space Spectroscopy LIDAR Photonics Optics Quantum Deep-tech Laser PIC Silicon Photonics Displays LED Lighting"
YouTube Link 2025-10-17T15:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"SCOTT KEENEY KEYNOTE @ GLOBAL PHOTONICS ECONOMIC FORUM We are starting our coverage of the Optica Global Photonics Economic Forum. We will post the full versions of keynotes on Youtube since they last around [--] minutes. A truncated version of the same keynote will be posted on Linkedin (15 minute limit) with a link to the Youtube posting. In the section of the meeting on defense we saw a keynote from Scott Keeney. Since founding nLight in [----] Scott has led this public company to become a global leader in high-power semiconductor and fiber lasers. enabling next-generation applications once"
YouTube Link 2025-10-17T15:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"REPLAY; OPTICA Online Industry Meeting on New Space September 23rd. Here is the chance to watch the replay of our meeting on Tuesday September [--] [----]. The space sector is shifting fast. Data demands are rising security is crucial and sustainability is a priority. On Sept. [--] we explored how optics and photonics make space systems smaller lighter more power-efficientand faster to deploy. Here are some of the takeaways I noted from the meeting. I found it fascinating that ESA & Mbryonics called for extending and diversifying the supply chain - there seem to be hidden issues. [--]. ESA openly"
YouTube Link 2025-09-23T18:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"REPLAY LINK FOR OPTICA Online Industry Meeting on Quantum Key Distribution On Tuesday September 9th [----] Optica hosted an Online Industry Meeting on Quantum Key Distribution. We had a packed-to-capacity Zoom room. Because in todays world of geopolitical tension the need for secure data transmission has never been greater. Participation in this online event was FREE thanks to the generous support from LIGENTEC Optiwave Systems Inc. and ThinkQuantum. ) Earlier this year we saw IonQ a leading quantum computing company move to acquire ID Quantique the market leader in Quantum Key Distribution."
YouTube Link 2025-09-09T16:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"BELGAN TRANSFORMED BY THEMA PHOTONICS- THE FULL STORY SO FAR Today we have a very special interview for you. Ive just interviewed Herwig van Hove who you may know is the entrepreneur investor and one of the directors behind the newly established Thema Foundries. They are in the local news now (end August 2025) because Thema has officially taken over the former BelGaN factory site in the town of Oudenaarde Belgium. BelGaN was trying to become a leading Gallium Nitride foundry. But sadly BelGaN went bankrupt last year when investors withdrew from the project. [---] jobs were lost. However the"
YouTube Link 2025-08-29T17:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Optica's Improved Corporate Market Intelligence Library Preparing for an upcoming in-person and online meeting Then check out Optica's newly updated Market Intelligence Library and download a few fresh reports. Here are three recent reports as examples. For New Space check out the latest on satellite-based Earth observation. For Quantum Key Distribution pull the report on satellite-enabled IoT. As preparation for the Optica Global Photonics Economic Forum in Mlaga explore the reports on the optoelectronic markets in the Americas and Europe. Having the latest data at hand makes it much easier"
YouTube Link 2025-08-29T16:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Optica Online Industry Meeting SEEING THE INVISIBLE: Photonics for Medical Imaging August 26th [----] Next-generation photonic tools are transforming clinical imaging by providing clinicians with non-ionising high-resolution tools to see deeper act faster and treat more precisely. All while improving patient comfort and outcomes. What we expect to discuss Endoscopy and surgical visualisation the cornerstone of real-time minimally invasive imaging for ENT urology oncology and beyond Laser-based and OCT diagnostics enabling high-resolution non-invasive insights for earlier detection and targeted"
YouTube Link 2025-08-26T16:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"GLOBAL PHOTONICS REMINDER: TAKE ADVANTAGE OF US BEFORE AUGUST 7th AND SAVE. I am in #Malaga again and I have a message from outside the Balenario de Nuestra Seora del Carmen the location for a special Optica dinner on October 7th [----]. I am working hard with my team throughout the summer to ensure the delivery of a superb second edition of the Optica Global Photonics Economic Forum (October 7th & 8th). We are only [--] months away I am delighted to report that the agenda is now finalised. Watch the video below for details. Then sign up to join us. Here's the UPDATE AND THE SPECIAL OFFER: Weve"
YouTube Link 2025-07-31T09:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"LASER TURNING DEVELOPMENTS FROM Lithuanian Innovator Akoneer At the recent Laser World of Photonics my Optica colleague Helena Diez-y-Riega met with Tadas Kilduis CCO of Akoneer a key player in Lithuanias vibrant Laser & Engineering Technologies Cluster (LITEK). Based in Vilnius AKONEER is known for pushing the frontiers of femtosecond laser micromachining. This year they introduced a new capability: laser turning for cylindrical parts combining scanning motion with rotary access. This opens up new geometries and tolerances for sectors where conventional machining falls short. 🔧 Founded in"
YouTube Link 2025-07-07T11:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Analog Modules Inc. PREMIERES TWO NEW PRODUCTS: My colleague Technical Director for Lasers Helena Diez-y-Riega was curious to see what was new at the stand of Optica Corporate Member Analog Modules Inc. Based near Orlando in Florida AMI designs and manufactures a wide range of analog electronic products for the laser and electro-optics industries. At last weeks Laser World of Photonics AMI was showcasing two new products in front of our cameras. Bruce Soileau walks us through both of them. [--]. An incredibly versatile controller for a flashlamp laser. Ideal for prototyping or laboratory use. It"
YouTube Link 2025-07-07T11:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"NEW Product Line from QTI SRL Ekate A quantum key manager with novel capabilities. Jon Pugh spoke to Co-Founder & CEO Tommaso Occhipinti at the World of Quantum in Munich🚨 To add to their already widely distributed commercially available Quell-X product line of QKD systems QTI have developed Ekate a new quantum key manager driven by customer demand. By adding some post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithms QTI have extended the capabilities of a quantum network. Using a quantum random number generator (QRNG) to provide quantum seeds for PQC for applications within hybrid networks. This"
YouTube Link 2025-07-07T11:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"IPG Photonics: LEADING THE WAY WITH HIGH POWER HAND-HELD At Laser World of Photonics Ralf Raimann from IPG Photonics Deutschland showed me one of the showstoppers of the event: their new 2000W Single-Mode Lightweld system. It is capable of welding stainless steel up to [--] mm in thickness and aluminium up to [--] mm. The market is recognising the enormous potential of hand-held welding capable of welding thicker material at higher speeds. The next step is to incorporate the handheld into a Cobot system for fully programmable automated operation. A simple way to maximise productivity and"
YouTube Link 2025-07-07T10:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"ANOTHER WIN-WIN Collaboration between Twin Photonics and Pixel Photonics. During last weeks Laser World of Photonics and World of Quantum in Messe Muenchen we saw several Optica corporate members coming together to push boundaries and accelerate innovation by working together. Today we're sharing the story of a great example of a spontaneous show floor collaboration between Twin Photonics and Pixel Photonics as witnessed by my Optica colleague Jon Pugh. Both companies provide turn-key plug-and-play scalable commercial products for quantum technologies and beyond. In order of appearance in the"
YouTube Link 2025-07-07T10:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"LIGENTEC ANNOUNCES [---] GHZ MODULATION SPEED The spectacular show is over but our deep-tech coverage continues. It was great to catch up with Michael Geiselmann President and CCO of LIGENTEC in Munich a few days ago. They are a key European supplier of Silicon Nitride PICs with facilities in Switzerland and France. Following up on a recent Optica online seminar we discussed how they are targeting customers who specifically need low-loss integrated photonics and want to integrate modulators and photon detectors into their designs. We touched on market hesitation as to whether TFLN and other"
YouTube Link 2025-07-07T10:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"VLC Photonics (Hitachi Group) + ficonTEC REVEAL AUTOMATIC DIE-LEVEL TESTING at Laser World The Laser World of Photonics show may be over but the impact of what was unveiled in Munich this past week will resonate well beyond it. The Optica Collaboration Interview. In the Integrated Photonics Area Iigo Artundo the CEO of VLC Photonics Hitachi Group and Torsten Vahrenkamp CEO of ficonTEC showcased their next-generation platform for automated die-level testing and assembly of photonic integrated circuits (PICs). The fully automated system due to be commissioned soon at VLCs new cleanroom facility"
YouTube Link 2025-07-07T10:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"2500x BEAM STEERING SPEED INCREASE FROM INLEAP Photonics GmbH. Here's another Optica booth interview at Laser World of Photonics. Just before the show ended Friday afternoon we spoke with CEO Marius Lammers. He shared how this successful spinout from Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH) is impacting European additive manufacturing. INLEAP Photonics GmbH is pushing the boundaries of laser material processing with a bold claim: Yes were 3x more expensivebut 5x faster. Its not just about speedits about redefining productivity and sustainability in industrial laser applications. INLEAPs flagship"
YouTube Link 2025-07-07T10:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"FINEPLACER femto pro launch at Laser World of Photonics. BOOTH VISIT DAY [--]. FINEPLACER femto pro launch at Laser World of Photonics. Berlin-based Finetech has been one of the highlights for me this time with the world premiere and demo of their fastest production die bonder to date the FINEPLACER femto pro. It is designed to set a new benchmark in high-precision micro-assembly. The new machine combines unmatched bonding speed with very high accuracy. It will be of interest to anyone involved in advanced packaging applications including Silicon Photonics Photonic Integrated Circuits"
YouTube Link 2025-07-07T10:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"VALO Innovations GmbH - a part of Hbner Photonics LAUNCHES TIDAL DAY [--] NEWS FROM MUNICH VALO Innovations GmbH - a part of Hbner Photonics LAUNCHES TIDAL [--] Watts [--] fs laser. It is always a delight to discuss femtosecond laser developments with industry experts like Oliver Prochnow of VALO Innovations GmbH (now part of HBNER Photonics). On their stand B2.217 at Laser World of Photonics [----] my Optica colleague Helena Diez-y-Riega and I were keen to see their latest product: a VALO ultrafast femtosecond laser offering up to [--] watts and [--] fs. We discussed their application in multiphoton"
YouTube Link 2025-07-07T10:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"KWAN-TEK: IS THIS THE WORLDS SMALLEST DIAMOND QUANTUM SENSOR Judge for yourself in the video below. In Hall A1.322 ( World of Quantum) at Laser World of Photonics we found the stand of Optica corporate member KWAN-TEK. Based in Western France they develop and industrialize a wide range of high-tech highly-sensitive stable and robust instruments based on the quantum and optics properties of NV center diamonds. They represent a new generation of metrology solutions for applications in both academic research and industry. KWAN-TEK was founded in October [----] by Remi Geiger who opens our"
YouTube Link 2025-07-07T10:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
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