Optics and Photonics for Sensing the Environment (ES)
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Optics and Photonics for Sensing the Environment (ES)
ES focuses on using optical sensing to monitor all aspects of the environment, from point sources to global scales.
Topics range from the development of novel technologies and their first field demonstrations to long-term applications in monitoring networks.
Optics and Photonics for Sensing the Environment (ES)
Topics
Optics and Photonics for Sensing the Environment (ES)
ES focuses on using optical sensing to monitor all aspects of the environment, from point sources to global scales. Topics range from the development of novel technologies and their first field demonstrations to long-term applications in monitoring networks.
Topics of Interest
- Novel Techniques for Environmental Sensing
- Frequency comb spectroscopy
- Supercontinuum light sources and their applications
- Integrated photonic sensors
- Fiber-based spectroscopic sensors
- Low-cost optical sensors and their networks
- New technologies for remote observations
- Stable isotopes and radiocarbon
- Leveraging data-driven methods for optical detection
- Observations for Environmental and Climate Research
- In-situ measurements of air pollutants and greenhouse gases
- Ground-based remote sensing techniques, e.g., LIDAR, DOAS and FTIR
- Satellite and airborne observations
- Large-scale observation networks
- Aerosols and aerosol cloud interactions
- Aqueous and marine environment
- Optical methods for the cryosphere, e.g., ice sheet, sea ice and permafrost
- Monitoring of the urban environment
- Embracing open data and FAIR principles
- Industrial and Agricultural Applications
- Applications in wastewater treatment, oil and gas, waste incineration, renewable and petrogenic energy production, transportation, etc.
- Process quality control
- Safety applications
- Optical techniques for smart agriculture
- Fenceline monitoring
- Stand-off and extractive detection of plumes, leaks and fugitive emissions
Chairs
Lukas Emmenegger
EMPA, Switzerland,
General Chair
Genevieve Plant
University of Michigan, United States,
General Chair
Caroline Kistner
Nanoplus Nanosystems and Tech GmbH, Germany,
Program Chair
Juha Toivonen
Tampereen Yliopisto, Finland,
Program Chair
Committee Members
- Lukas Emmenegger, EMPA, Switzerland, General Chair
- Genevieve Plant, University of Michigan, United States, General Chair
- Caroline Kistner, Nanoplus Nanosystems and Tech GmbH, Germany, Program Chair
- Juha Toivonen, Tampereen Yliopisto, Finland, Program Chair
- Kevin Cossel, NIST Boulder, United States
- Paolo De Natale, Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, Italy
- Christoph Dyroff, Aerodyne Research Inc, Germany
- Andreas Fix, Deutsches Zent f.Luft-u.Raumfahrt eV (W), Germany
- Michele Gianella, Sensirion AG, Switzerland
- Borislav Hinkov, Silicon Austria Labs GmbH, Austria
- Jane Hodgkinson, Cranfield University, United Kingdom
- Rand Ismaeel, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
- Jana Jágerská, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway
- Dennis Killinger, University of South Florida, United States
- Wei Ren, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Lukasz Sterczewski, Politechnika Wroclawska, Poland
- Béla Tuzson, EMPA, Switzerland
- Eleanor Waxman, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, United States
- Eric Zhang, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Plenary Speakers
Hatice Altug
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Integrated Metasurfaces for Biosensing and Bioimaging
John Kitching
Chip-scale Atomic Devices: From Clocks to Brain Imaging and Beyond
Invited Speakers
Applied Industrial Spectroscopy (AIS)
- Heidi Ottevaere, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Disease/Pathogen Detection Tutorial - Katherine Bakeev, Timegate Instruments Ltd., United States
Time-Gated Raman for Bioprocess Analysis - Dawson Bonneville, Universiteit Twente, Netherlands
The Broadband Aluminum Oxide Integrated Photonics Platform: Applications in Spectroscopy - Zoltan Bozoki, Szegedi Tudomanyegyetem, Hungary
Quantitative Photoacoustic Spectroscopy of Gases and Aerosols - Tatevik Chalyan, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Spectroscopy Combined with Machine Learning to Study Oak Barrels Reusability in Wine Industry - Simona Cristescu, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, Netherlands
Application of an Open-Path Broadband Source-Based Mobile Instrumentation for Greenhouse Gas Monitoring - Hilton de Aguiar, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, France
High-Speed Chemical Imaging via Compressive Raman Microspectroscopy - Pietro Ferraro, Institute of Intelligent Systems ISASI, Italy
Enhancing Single Cell Phase Contrast Imaging: Intracellular Specificity via Advanced Flow Tomography - Tobias Herr, Universität Hamburg, Germany
Broadband and Metrology-Grade Frequency Combs from Integrated Photonic Chips - Martin Koch, Philipps Universitat Marburg, Germany
Applications of THz Time-Domain Spectroscopy - Martin Kraft, Competence Center CHASE GmbH, Austria
Applied Raman Spectroscopy in Process Analytics - Boris Mizaikoff, Universitat Ulm, Germany
Mid-Infrared (Bio)Photonics: From Emerging Tool to Enabling Technology - Shiva Mohammadzadeh, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Germany
Industrial Photonic Terahertz Radar - Isabel Pastoriza-Santos, Universidade de Vigo, Spain
Plasmonic Platforms for SERS Sensing - Mark Phillips, Univ of Arizona, Coll of Opt Sciences, United States
In-Situ Characterization of Combustion in Methane Flares Using Standoff Infrared Laser Spectroscopy - Bassam Saadany, Si-Ware, Egypt
Spectroscopy for Everyday Life: Precision Agriculture, Food and Healthcare - Jayshri Sabarinathan, University of Western Ontario,
Remote Sensing Instrumentation and Spectral Imagers for Monitoring Methane Emissions - Uli Schmidhammer, Teratonics S.A.S., France
Single-Shot THz Spectroscopy - Lien Smeesters, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Towards a Non-Destructive and Sensitive Food Quality Inspection using Broadband Diffuse Reflection Spectroscopy and Machine Learning - Maria Soler, Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotec, Spain
Photonic Biosensors for Point-of-Care Diagnostics - Thierry Taliercio, University of Montpellier, France
Surface Enhanced Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy to Detect Harmful Compounds as SARIN Gas or Vanillin - Christoph Wagner, s::can GmbH, Austria
Spectroscopy and Disinfection Byproducts in Water Treatment - Benjamin Willenberg, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Single Cavity Dual-Comb Lasers with Efficient Wavelength Extensions for Sensing Applications - Robert Zimmerleiter, RECENDT GmbH, Austria
In-line Spectroscopic Monitoring of Dynamic Industrial Processes
Industry Programs
These sessions focus on opportunities for commercialization of emerging technologies and understanding the commercial market’s view of imaging optics.
Transformation is the opposite of business as usual. It requires an update to business practices and an enhanced mix of industry and academia. More output from industry is needed within a shorter time, and more input by basic research is necessary as well.
Background
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.
- Free online content made available each day of the congress: a mix of short interviews, discussions and poster pitches.
The value of industry programs rests upon interaction and discussion. Presentations are brief and to the point so that more session time is reserved for engagement with speakers and other session attendees.
Objectives
The goal of the industry programs is to pave the road toward substantial future growth. There is great momentum in the optical sensing industry since pilot projects like infrared skin moisture measurement have become more accessible and adopted. This momentum should continue to grow and make optical sensing a preferred career path.
Speakers
Session I, 17 July 2024
16:30-18:00
Carlo Sirtori, École Normale Supérieure, France
30 years of QCL, Part 1, Fundamental
Werner Mäntele, DiaMonTech AG, University of Frankfurt, Germany
30 years of QCL, Part 2, Application – Finally Sufficient Photons for IR Spectroscopy: QCL-Based Sensors for Medical Applications
Johannes Koeth, Sensalight Technologies GmbH and Nanoplus Nanosystems and Technologies GmbH, Germany
Recent Developments in Long Wavelengths Semiconductor Emitters and their Use in Midsize and Mass Markets
Mircea Guina, Vexlum Ltd., and Tampere University, Finland
Wavelength Versatile Semiconductor Lasers (VECSELs): Technology Overview and New Applications
Silvan Schmid, Invisible-Light Labs and Technische Universität Wien, Austria
EMILIE - Nanomechanical Photothermal Infrared Spectroscopy for Nanomaterial Characterization
David Stark, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Commercializing Quantum Cascade Surface Emitting Lasers – From the Lab to Market
Session II, 18 July 2024
11:00-12:30
Ryszard Piramidowicz, VIGO Photonics S.A and Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
On the Road to mid-IR Photonic Integrated Circuits – From MIRPIC to HyperPIC
Mihaela Zigman, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
Vibrational Fingerprinting of Blood to Phenotype Health and Disease
Werner Mäntele, DiaMonTech AG, University of Frankfurt, Germany
Mid IR based Blood Analysis for Point-of-Care Applications
Matthias Budden, WiredSense GmbH, Germany
Open FTIR – Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy Simplified
Marco Schossig, INFRASOLID GmbH, Germany
Broadband Radiation Source for Infrared and Tterahertz Spectroscopy
Christian Müller, trinamiX GmbH, Germany
Bringing Spectroscopy to the People – Miniaturizing NIR Spectroscopy Towards Consumer Electronics
