Optica Sensing Congress

This panel discussion aims to answer questions about the current and possible future challenges in the scientific sector that boost the development of spectroscopic techniques to fulfill the market's requirements.

Speakers
Jacques Cochard, TEMATYS, France
Adam J Fleisher, National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST), USA
Heidi Ottevaere, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

This workshop will focus on the latest developments in optical sensor technologies tailored for monitoring health biomarkers in real-time, addressing challenges and exploring opportunities for innovation. 

Speakers
Benjamin Burgat, CSEM Basel, Switzerland
Ferda Canbaz, Universitat Basel, Switzerland
Juan Pedro Cascales, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Samantha Grist, University of British Columbia, Canada
Jingjing Jiang, Universitätsspital Zürich, Switzerland
Werner Mäntele, DiaMonTech AG, Germany
Christian Müller, trinamiX GmbH, Germany
Patricia Ramírez Priego, Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotec, Spain
Lukas Scherrer, GlucoSet, Norway
Giuseppe Trusso, University of Catania, Italy
Lilian Witthauer, Universitat Bern, Switzerland

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Join fellow attendees to celebrate the capabilities and achievements of the GEMM Initiative.

Join the Laser Systems Technical Group for “Novel Optical Coherence Control for Beam Shaping and Optical Communications,” a special talk from Milo W. Hyde of the Air Force Institute of Technology.

Controlling the spatial correlation or coherence of light is a relatively new aspect of beam control and holds great promise for use in optical communications. By manipulating spatial coherence, light beams can be generated that are resistant to scintillation or speckle and can change shape and polarization as they propagate. Currently, the primary challenge for applying coherence control in optical communications (and many other applications) is the inability to generate beams with complex (or spatially varying) coherence states in real-time. This challenge is due to the fact that generating such beams requires optical systems that are space-varying or anisoplanatic, and these are difficult to construct. It is my belief that recent advances in metasurface and metamaterial technology can be leveraged to overcome this challenge. In this talk, I will present and discuss results from a recent project where we applied custom refractive optics and metalenses to generate a real-time partially coherent beam with a space-varying coherence state.

Attendees are invited to stay after the talk to connect with colleagues over refreshments.

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Industry programs will focus on news, challenges, applications, opportunities and scalability in emerging technologies on a system or component level. The program is comprised of three industry sessions (one held in conjunction with the Optica Imaging Congress). The sessions include panel discussions and a “News Flash” 5/5 format with five-minute talks followed by five-minute discussion. The value of industry programs rests upon interaction and discussion. Presentations are brief so that more time is reserved for engagement with speakers and other attendees.

Speakers
Mircea Guina, Vexlum Ltd., and Tampere University, Finland    
Johannes Koeth, Sensalight Technologies GmbH and Nanoplus Nanosystems and Technologies GmbH, Germany    
Werner Mäntele, DiaMonTech AG, University of Frankfurt, Germany    
Silvan Schmid, Invisible-Light Labs and Technische Universität Wien, Austria
Carlo Sirtori, École Normale Supérieure, France    
David Stark, ETH Zürich, Switzerland    

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Industry programs will focus on news, challenges, applications, opportunities and scalability in emerging technologies on a system or component level. The program is comprised of three industry sessions (one held in conjunction with the Optica Imaging Congress). The sessions include panel discussions and a “News Flash” 5/5 format with five-minute talks followed by five-minute discussion. The value of industry programs rests upon interaction and discussion. Presentations are brief so that more time is reserved for engagement with speakers and other attendees.

Speakers
Ryszard Piramidowicz, VIGO Photonics S.A and Warsaw University of Technology, Poland    
Mihaela Zigman, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Germany    
Werner Mäntele, DiaMonTech AG, University of Frankfurt, Germany    
Matthias Budden, WiredSense GmbH, Germany    
Marco Schossig, INFRASOLID GmbH, Germany    
Christian Müller, trinamiX GmbH, Germany    

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