All Things Photonics
From space exploration and quantum optics, to biomedical imaging and defense, today’s top scientific minds are using lasers, spectroscopy, sensors, and optics to deliver cutting-edge innovation to our society. In intimate conversations with those pushing the boundaries of human knowledge, “All Things Photonics” spotlights photonics industry progress from beyond the lab.
Hear how 3D printed microscopes — and those developed for a fraction of the cost — offer our best hope for diagnosing disease in the developing world; why spectroscopy might be the most valuable tool in the crime scene technicians’ arsenal; how light can motorize drug delivery; and how the quantum cascade laser, CMOS image sensor, and robot-assisted surgery became realities.
Notable guests include Nobel Prize winner Donna Strickland; Columbia University Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering Michal Lipson; inventor of the CMOS image sensor Eric Fossum; serial entrepreneur Jason Eichenholz; co-namesake of the Hockney Falco Thesis Charles Falco; and SPIE President and founder of the Vanderbilt Biophotonics Center Anita Mahadevan-Jansen.
“All Things Photonics”® is produced by Photonics Media and airs biweekly, on Tuesdays. The podcast was a shortlisted finalist in two categories — Best Science & Medical Podcast and Best Technology Podcast — for The Publishers Podcast Awards in 2021. It has again earned shortlist honors in the Best Science and Medical Podcast category for 2022.
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- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 37 minutes
- Episodes
- 107
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
The Role of Materials in Optical Networking — With Brad Booth
For this episode, we are joined by Brad Booth, CEO of NLM Photonics, the developer of a hybrid electro-optic technology combining high-performance organic materials with semiconductor photonics platf…
Spotlight: Nick Harris, CEO and Founder of Lightmatter
Lightmatter is pushing the envelope of AI interconnect and networking standards. It’s all in an effort to bring AI infrastructure into a photonic era. MIT graduate Nick Harris founded Lightmatter in …
Microelectronics Packaging Through a Photonics Lens — With Abdul Rahim
Discussions around packaging — the art, the challenge, and the roadmap — have ramped up over the last 18 months. A bona fide industry trend, packaging is commanding the focus of leading companies and…
Spotlight: Tara Fortier, Project Leader at NIST
Spotlight: Dr. Andrew Brown, Senior Director SPIE
In the premiere episode of Spotlight, from "All Things Photonics," Dr. Andrew Brown with SPIE joins us to preview this year's Global Business Forum at Photonics West in San Francisco. Brown predicts …
Fiber Optics and Fiber Lasers (With Sir David Payne) and Time and Frequency (With Tara Fortier)
In season ten’s finale, "All Things Photonics" speaks with its first knighted guest: Sir David Payne, Director of the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton. Sir David is re…
Electro-Optic Polymers (with Michael Lebby) and Miniaturized Particle Accelerators (with Stephen Milton)
Lightwave Logic CEO Michael Lebby discusses his company’s electro-optic polymer technology, what it means for the data center and artificial intelligence industries, and his company’s path to commerc…
Optics Manufacturing in America (with Dave Shelton) and a Primer on Metamaterials (with Andrea Alù)
David Shelton, President and CEO of AmeriCOM, discusses ongoing efforts to strengthen the United States’ optical manufacturing industry and how they relate to defense and national security. Andrea Al…
The Future of Biophotonics (with Ji-Xin Chen) and Dynamic Growth in Silicon Photonics (with Ronnen Lovinger)
Ji-Xin Cheng, professor at Boston University, discusses the future of biophotonics and the challenges it still faces. Cheng shares more on what drives him to continue his research in medical photonic…
Chalcogenides Continued and PlanOpSim — With Lieven Penninck and Sam Rubin
Lieven Penninc, founder of planar optics modeling software developer PlanOpSim, offers perspective on the meta-optics technology boom. Sam Rubin, CEO of LightPath Technologies, picks up the conversat…
Wavefront Phase Imaging and Chalcogenide Glass — with Javier Elizalde and Kathleen Richardson
Senior editor Joe Kuczynski speaks with Javier Elizalde, COO of Wooptix, about the company’s wavefront phase imaging technology. Following that, EPIC’s Antonio Castelo catches up with Tim Kunze, CEO …
All About Optical Interconnects — with Terry Thorn
Terry Thorn, vice president commercial operations at optical interconnect solutions developer Ayar Labs, discusses the ever-evolving road to overcoming AI system bottlenecks, and how optical solution…
Exploring the Potential of Silicon Photonics and PICs — with Anthony Yu and John Jost
In the inaugural episode of Season 10, we discuss GlobalFoundries’ Fotonix project and the potential of silicon photonics with Anthony Yu, Vice President of GlobalFoundries’ Computer and Wired Infras…
Durable Quantum Cascade Lasers: Applications and Deployments
The episode begins with on-site interviews from EPIC’s Technology Meeting for Photonics in XR, held in Helsinki, Finland. Guests include Stefan Steiner, CEO of LightTrans International; Erhan Ercan, …
Countermeasure Detection and Ranging Technologies — With Paul McManamon
Optics and photonics luminary Paul McManamon is our guest for a discussion on advanced ranging and detection capabilities across environments and applications areas. McManamon, a past president of SP…
Live from the EPIC Annual General Meeting and Summit 2024 — With Beate Sauter, Elizabeth Illy
Photonics Media comes to you from onsite at the 2024 Annual General Meeting of the European Photonics Industry Consortium (EPIC). The episode features fireside chats with Elizabeth Illy and Beate Sau…
The Neuromorphic Photonics Roadmap — With Paul Prucnal and Bhavin Shastri
Paul Prucnal, professor of electrical and computer engineering and director of the Center for Network Security and Access (CNSA) at Princeton, and Bhavin Shastri, assistant professor in the Queen’s U…
The Almighty Soliton — With Andrea Blanco-Redondo
As an endowed professor at The University of Central Florida College of Optics and Photonics (UCF CREOL), Andrea Blanco-Redondo focuses on some of the most exciting topics in photonics research. Whil…
Inside Silicon Photonics — With Mario Paniccia
Silicon photonics’ evolution from application shrouded in uncertainty to discipline harboring vast application potential has commanded the attention of those in and beyond the fields of optics and ph…
Thermal Imaging and AI: Introducing HADAR — With Zubin Jacob
Zubin Jacob, Purdue University Elmore Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, discusses the convergence of thermal imaging and artificial intelligence. The recently developed heat…