97 Episodes

  1. Laser-Powered Time Travel — With Physicist and Professor Emeritus, Ron Mallett

    Published: 5/27/2025

  2. Closing Connection Gaps through Free Space Optical Communications — With Tom Chaffee, Jim Olson, and Wayne Knox

    Published: 5/13/2025

  3. Spotlight: Trade War Threatens Global Semiconductor Industry — With Lita Shon-Roy, President/CEO and Founder of TECHET

    Published: 5/12/2025

  4. Laser-Based Additive Manufacturing Steps into the Blue — With Lukas Hoppe

    Published: 4/29/2025

  5. Graphene: At the Intersection of Photonics and 2D Materials Science — With Andy MacInnes

    Published: 4/15/2025

  6. Spotlight: Frank Winkler, Professor for Neuro-Oncology, Heidelberg University

    Published: 4/14/2025

  7. Directed Energy: Into the Battlefield and Out of this World — with Martin Richardson

    Published: 4/1/2025

  8. Placing “Test” on the Integrated Photonics Value Chain — With Iñigo Artundo

    Published: 3/18/2025

  9. Spotlight: John Ballato, Professor of Materials and Science Engineering at Clemson University

    Published: 3/17/2025

  10. The Role of Materials in Optical Networking — With Brad Booth

    Published: 3/4/2025

  11. Spotlight: Nick Harris, CEO and Founder of Lightmatter

    Published: 3/3/2025

  12. Microelectronics Packaging Through a Photonics Lens — With Abdul Rahim

    Published: 2/18/2025

  13. Spotlight: Tara Fortier, Project Leader at NIST

    Published: 2/10/2025

  14. Spotlight: Dr. Andrew Brown, Senior Director SPIE

    Published: 1/20/2025

  15. Fiber Optics and Fiber Lasers (With Sir David Payne) and Time and Frequency (With Tara Fortier)

    Published: 12/17/2024

  16. Electro-Optic Polymers (with Michael Lebby) and Miniaturized Particle Accelerators (with Stephen Milton)

    Published: 12/10/2024

  17. Optics Manufacturing in America (with Dave Shelton) and a Primer on Metamaterials (with Andrea Alù)

    Published: 12/3/2024

  18. The Future of Biophotonics (with Ji-Xin Chen) and Dynamic Growth in Silicon Photonics (with Ronnen Lovinger)

    Published: 11/19/2024

  19. Chalcogenides Continued and PlanOpSim — With Lieven Penninck and Sam Rubin

    Published: 11/12/2024

  20. Wavefront Phase Imaging and Chalcogenide Glass — with Javier Elizalde and Kathleen Richardson

    Published: 10/29/2024

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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. Contact us at [email protected].