• For the love of optics education
    Nov 19 2024

    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.

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    21 mins
  • Pride in the Heart of Engineering
    Nov 12 2024

    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.

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    29 mins
  • The CEO shift
    Nov 5 2024

    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.

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    32 mins
  • Light News 10.29.24
    Oct 29 2024

    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
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    5 mins
  • The balance of varied expertise
    Oct 22 2024

    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.

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    31 mins
  • Light News 10.15.24
    Oct 15 2024

    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

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    6 mins
  • TAU Systems democratizes innovation
    Oct 9 2024

    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.

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    24 mins
  • Light News 10.01.24
    Oct 1 2024

    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

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    6 mins