Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast

This episode features Cory Boone, technical marketing manager at Edmund Optics. An engineering, optics, and marketing guru, he's very active in educational outreach, he creates the company's popular YouTube and TikTok videos, and has even authored a children’s book ("Larry Laser Finds His Spark") to share the fun of STEM with future generations.

This episode features Dr. Teresa Pace, an engineering fellow with L3Harris, and an algorithm and data architect with the Strategy & Technology office in the Integrated Mission Systems segment. She has an extensive career, which includes time as a chief engineer for Lockheed Martin. She also holds an impressive 14 patents and her work has been featured in 80 publications.

This episode features a chat with OpenLight CEO Dr. Adam Carter, a semiconductor communications industry veteran with an impressive 25-year track record. He’s also been instrumental in the growth and turnarounds of some of the world’s leading optics businesses and manufacturers.

Here's the latest roundup of some of the most interesting and exciting news impacting the photonics industry! 
Funding advances photonics technologies
Thermal metasurface design controls itself
Laser tech boosts greenhouse gas detection
Team bridges standard and quantum internet

In this episode of Following the Photons, we talk with Dr. Shari Worthington, a professor of entrepreneurship and marketing at Suffolk University in Boston who (among several other roles) is president of Telesian Technology, a management and marketing firm that works with technology startups and Fortune 500 companies like MKS Instruments, Raytheon, and Apple.

Your biweekly roundup of some of the most interesting and exciting news impacting the photonics industry! This week...
Recent acquisitions and mergers impacting the photonics industry
Development of a chip-based tractor beam for bio imaging
SLAC National Accelerator Lab's high-energy upgrades for LCLS
LightPath Tech advancing the military’s F-35 combat aircraft program
 

This episode features Catalin Neacsu, vice president of business development at TAU Systems. He has experience in an array of photonics industry sectors, from physics research to sales, and now has a direct hand in some of the most advanced innovations in the world.

Your biweekly roundup of some of the most interesting and exciting news impacting the photonics industry! This week...
University of Bonn researchers can now imprint a simple lattice structure on a super photon, which could someday make communication tap-proof
A team at Synopsys has designed a first-of-its-kind comprehensive virtual prototyping platform for system-level imaging
IPG Photonics has officially sold its Russian subsidiary, IRE-Polus, and Lightwave Logic has named two new members to its Board of Directors
A chip-scale photonic modulator that can control light on a silicon photonic microchip is addressing an evolving national security risk
 

Check out this really interesting interview with Caroline Boudoux, Ph.D., a renowned leader in the photonics and optics industry. She wears many hats, including professor of Engineering Physics at Polytechnique Montréal, and researcher at the Sainte-Justine University Hospital in Montréal, the University of Montréal's Biomedical Engineering Institute, and the Center for Optics, Photonics, and Lasers in Quebec. She is also co-founder and co-president of Castor Optics, Chair of Optica’s Biophotonics Congress, a member of the Board of Directors of the National Optics Institute in Quebec, and an SPIE fellow. Caroline has authored several books, as well, including the recently released, It Goes Without Saying: Taking the Guesswork out of your Ph.D. in Engineering.

Presenting another edition of Light News… a quick roundup of some of the coolest, most exciting news impacting the photonics industry. Let’s go follow those photons!