Online: World of Photonics Congress from June 20 to 24, 2021
New date: Next LASER World of PHOTONICS in Munich from April 26 to 29, 2022
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3,635 lectures and posters are presented at this year’s World of Photonics Congress. In addition, several award presentations take place to honor outstanding research in photonics. Get an overview of the highlight sessions and lectures of the program and find more details to the award presentations.
Light for Life
Challenges and Trends in Optical Molecular Imaging
Sophie Brasselet, Fresnel Institute, France
Light Sheet Microscopy: Imaging faster, wider and deeper
Kishan Dholakia, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom
Silicon Photonics
Prof. Michal Lipson, Columbia University, USA
Fluorescence and Scattering, a Tug of War towards Multimessenger Optical Microscopy
Alberto Diaspro, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
Listening to the Universe with Gravitational Waves
Prof. Karsten Danzmann, Max-Planck-Institute for Gravitational Physics, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
Metamaterials, Anapoles and Flying Donuts
Nikolay N. Zheludev, University of Southampton, UK and NTU Singapore, Singapore
Computational Photonics for Metrology Application: Light and Structure
LiM - Lasers in Manufacturing Plenary Session and WLT Award Ceremony
Laudatio for Prof. Poprawe
Prof. Andreas Tünnermann, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF, Germany
Prof. Reinhart Poprawe, Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT, Germany
Prof. Michael Schmidt, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Secondary Speckle-based Tomopgraphy and Tissue Probing
Ariel Schwarz, Bar-Ilan University, Isreal
Light Field Image Processing: Overview and Research Problems
Dr. Christine Guillemot, INRIA, France
Nanophotonic Metasurfaces for Biosensing and Imaging
Prof. Hatice Altug, L'Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Graphene for Photonics and Optoelectronics
Andrea Ferrari, Cambridge Graphene Center, United Kingdom
Toward a thinking Microscope: Deeep Learning-enabled Computational Microscopy and Sensing
Aydogan Ozcan, University of California, USA
A Passion for Extreme Light
Gérard Mourou, L'Ecole Polytechnique, France
The Ongoing Adaptive Optics Revolution
Dr. Domenico Bonaccini Calia, European Soutern Observatory, Germany
Robot learning from Human Guidance
Prof. Dongheui Lee, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany
Photonic Entanglement: from Foundations to Applications
Prof. Anton Zeilinger, Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
The Journey from Manipulating Single Quantum Systems to Quantum Information Processing
Prof. Peter Knight, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Quantifying Myelination at the Individual Axon Scale using Color Spatial Light Interference Microscopy (cSLIM)
Gabriel Popescu, University of Illinois, USA
Photo Medicine, Radiation Medicine and Nano Medicine: An Emerging Golden Braid
Prof. Brian C. Wilson, University of Toronto/Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Canada
Magic Conditions for Optical Lattice Clocks to Operate at 10^-19 Uncertainty
Hidetoshi Katori, Tokyo University, Japan
Nonlinear Optics Exploiting the Spatial Dimension
Siddharth Ramachandran, Boston University, USA
Optical Imaging using Learning Techniques
Demetri Psaltis, L'Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Ultralarge Scale Single-Cell Image-based Biophysical Phenotyping: Opportunities and Challenges
Kevin Tsia, The University of Hong Kong, China
Towards a complete Framework for Calibration of Optical Surface and coordinate Measuring Insturments
Prof. Richard Leach, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
A Renaissance in Stimulated Brillouin Scattering
Benjamin Eggleton, University of Sydney, Australia
Automated Cell Identification with 3D Optical Imaging
Bahram Javidi, University of Connecticut, USA
Quantum Dot Lasers Epitaxially Grown on Si
John Bowers, UC Santa Barbara, USA
Measurement of Optical Components I: Asphere and Freeform Measurement
The Future of Optical Fabrication - Demand, Supply and Technology
Prof. David Walker, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom
Quantitive Phase Imaging and Artificial Intelligence
YongKeun Park, KAIST; Republic of Korea
Topological Photonics
Mordechai (Moti) Segev, Technion, Isreal
Wireless Terahertz Communications
Wolfgang Freude, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
An Introduction to Attosecond Pulses and Attosecond Physics
Anne L'Huillier, Lund University, Sweden
Exchanging information, receiving fresh ideas, getting to know new colleagues and making contact with key players in the industry: No problem at the World of Photonics Congress!
Each conference held as part of the World of Photonics Congress will also feature at least one poster session. Take this opportunity of meeting colleagues researching the same subjects or of getting to know new research projects.
End the congress day among colleagues with “pretzels and beer”. The "Bier & Brezel“ Get-together sponsored by SPIE takes places on Monday, June 24, 2019, 19:00-21:00 in the Foyer and Hall B0, ICM Ground Floor.
The Happy Hour sponsored by QEOD takes place on Wednesday, June 26, 2019, 17:45–18:45 in the Foyer and Hall B0, ICM Ground Floor.
