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Optica | 51,199 followers on LinkedIn. Optica, Advancing Optics and Photonics Worldwide. | Optica is dedicated to promoting the generation, application, archiving and dissemination of knowledge in optics and photonics worldwide. Founded in 1916, it is the leading organization for scientists, engineers, business professionals, students and others interested in the science of light. Optica’s renowned publications, meetings, online resources and in-person activities fuel discoveries, shape real-life applications and accelerate scientific, technical and educational achievement.

Senior Industry Advisor at Optica (formerly OSA)

Tom Hausken

Gustavo Schujman

Dave Coray

Beth Harrington

1 Week for the Third Edition of the Optica Quantum Industry Summit! 19 – 20 November 2024 Bristol, UK - A global hub for quantum innovation We’re thrilled to bring together top minds in The Quantum Communication and Internet for Session 10 of this year’s summit! Don’t miss insights from our speakers: Tom Darras , CEO at Welinq Raymond Smith, Team Leader, Sr Research Scientist, at Toshiba Simone Capeleto , Co-founder & CEO at ThinkQuantum Ingrid Romijn , Co-founder &CEO at Q*BIRD Francesco Raffaelli , Lead Integrated Photonics Engineer at KETS Quantum Security This session is part of a dynamic summit featuring keynotes from industry giants, including NVIDIA , Airbus , Cisco , and BT Group . Don’t miss the opportunity to connect, collaborate, and gain exclusive insights from the leaders driving the future of quantum technology. Register here: https://lnkd.in/ecGYA3Md

The 14 November deadline is fast approaching. If you have not completed your application for the 2025 Optica Amplify Scholarship the time is now! https://lnkd.in/eAweymhp

Marcia Lesky

FINAL CALL OPTICA ONLINE INDUSTRY MEETING LIDAR NOV 19 @ 10ET. https://lnkd.in/dMgTdjsn . Join us for our FREE Optica Online industry meeting on Tuesday, November 19 at 10 am EST, 3PM UK, 4PM in central Europe. And this is a big one. Traditionally LIDAR has been one of the most popular topics. For 90 minutes we explore the current business opportunities in LIDAR, as this is now one of the most unpredictable markets. The biggest decision regarding 3D sensing in robotics and automotive is whether to say YES or NO to LIDAR. Tesla said NO three years ago, as they believe that 2D cameras can do the job. Meanwhile, other companies like Continental in Automotive or John Deere in heavy machinery have invested deeply. So what optics and photonics do the Continentals and John Deeres of the world need? Investors are confident that the LiDAR market will grow to $2.3 billion by 2026. Despite some uncertainties, I think we should remain optimistic. There’s increasing adoption of LIDAR in consumer equipment and autonomous vehicles—particularly in Asia—along with applications in aerial mapping, defense, infrastructure monitoring, robotic vision, and environmental monitoring. The biggest trend in LIDAR is the incorporation of AI, which provides the system with an AI-educated guess of what the object is, allowing it to react appropriately depending on the object ahead. Our online meeting will showcase real-world use cases. Hear contributions from Continental , Vayu Robotics , John Deere , Lumotive , Ommatidia LIDAR , SCRAMBLUX GmbH and many more (about 500 people have already registered to be in the room). If you are active in LIDAR, please join the list. Let me remind you that attendance is free but you need to register to participate in our Zoom room. Follow this link and register immediately. https://lnkd.in/dMgTdjsn Optica’s Director of Optical Systems, Dr. Olga Raz will lead the conversation. Will you be there?

Jose Pozo

One week to go! https://lnkd.in/exKvhS5B 💫 I’m excited to be heading to Bristol for the 3rd edition of Optica ’s Quantum Industry Summit! This event has been a consistent highlight, bringing together top technical minds in #quantum for productive, forward-thinking discussions. I’m looking forward to sharing Qunnect ’s vision and mission as we overcome challenges and seize new opportunities in quantum technology. If you’re attending, let’s connect! I’d love to discuss how Qunnect can enable entanglement distribution in your city (or already has!) - building connections that go way beyond secure communications. Let’s keep pushing the boundaries & drive #HardwareNotHype for #QuantumComputing and the #QuantumInternet !

Mael Flament

Develop your leadership skills at Level Up! Every leader encounters challenges like burnout, imposter syndrome, and other obstacles hindering their positive impact. At Level Up Leadership, industry and academic professionals will provide you with essential soft skills to become an effective and adaptable leader, including strategies for collaborating and facilitating success with your team. Learn more and register by 30 November: https://bit.ly/4ekljFF #careerdevelopment #earlycareer #professionaldevelopment #networking

When Optica Ambassadors like Ana Karen Reyes bring their expertise to student chapters, the impact is transformative. By partnering with student groups, Ambassadors spark curiosity, foster leadership and promote optics and photonics worldwide. Ana shared low-cost research ideas this past May with the Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira chapter. She shared with them how they can fuel discovery in schools. The Optica Foundation helps to make these collaborations possible, uniting the global optics community at local levels. Learn more at https://bit.ly/48KniSC #careerdevelopment #professionaldevelopment #volunteer

Greetings everyone! I have been seriously fighting imposter syndrome with this one BUT now I am stepping out by faith! I was selected (nominated by my dear friend Matthew Posner ) as part of the #ThePhotonics100 ! Thank you so much #ElectroOptics for this honor! My career has had its ups and downs and I did not think I had sufficient "wins" to be given such a distinction, but that's why I am grateful for the network of genuine people I have connected to over the years who saw the need of acknowledge me, and for that I am so ever grateful. My dedication to promoting #AmplifyBlackVoicesinOptics continues this week at the National Society of Black Physicists #NSBPConference #NationalSocietyofBlackPhysicists #2024NSBP in Houston, where I am representing Optica , the #OpticaAmbassadors and promoting the #AmplifyScholarship ! If you are attending or in the area, I would love to see you there! Meanwhile, discover the exceptional talents shaping the future of photonics in the full #Photonics100 list by Electro Optics : https://lnkd.in/e8iFVDSR

Michael Joseph Williams, Ph.D.

Congratulations to Michael Joseph Williams, Ph.D. for this well-deserved honor. And thanks for sharing the fact that even someone as incredible as you can suffer from imposter syndrome, helps us all realize we need to fight that feeling. I hope you and all the attendees at the National Society of Black Physicists annual conference have a fantastic time. Side note, I am thrilled to see Optica Ambassadors supporting each other like this. Go team #OpticaAmbassadors .

AMAZING DEMO FROM Xscape Photonics Inc . You may know that all our technical team in Optica corporate engagement outreach have regular one-on-one discussions with CEOs and CTOs of our corporate members. Of course, most of these conversations are very confidential and not recorded. Very occasionally, when a company is seeking partnerships or industry feedback, then we ask permission to conduct a short interview for use on Linked In. Here is one of those. After meeting at the Optica PECC summit at Synopsys Inc , I was lucky to speak with Vivek Raghunathan , the CEO of Xscape Photonics Inc . During our discussion, he permitted us to record. Below is the result, and I am glad he was able to show what they have done. This startup featured in the mainstream news a few weeks ago by announcing they’ve raised US$44 million Series A from IAG Capital Partners, with investments from Altair, Cisco Investments, Fathom Fund, Kyra Ventures, LifeX Ventures, NVIDIA and OUP. Xscape Photonics is at the forefront of advanced photonic integrated chips (PICs) that revolutionise ultrahigh-bandwidth connectivity for data centres and high-performance computing systems. What sets Xscape Photonics apart is their innovative multi-wavelength programmable laser technology. Traditionally, short-distance data connections rely on a separate laser for each colour or wavelength of light. Xscape Photonics, however, can generate hundreds of different wavelengths from a single laser, drastically improving efficiency and simplifying system complexity. The foundation of this groundbreaking technology lies in research initiated at Columbia University . Xscape Photonics’ co-founders—Professors Alexander Gaeta , Keren Bergman , and Michal Lipson —developed this multi-wavelength laser platform to address the challenge of efficiently transferring massive data volumes across AI accelerators and between memory stacks. Xscape Photonics’ approach of channelling multiple data streams through different wavelengths produced by a single laser significantly reduces costs, power consumption, and overall physical footprint. This innovation directly addresses the needs of hyperscalers looking to solve bandwidth density and supply capacity issues within data centers. Xscapephotonics has offices in Fort Lee, NJ, and Santa Clara, CA. If you have an application, I would encourage you to contact them.

OPN's November Feature "Hydrogel Optical Fibers" discusses the potential of using biocompatible hydrogels as optical fiber for sensing, optogenetics and more! Read the full story: https://bit.ly/3ChZ9qc #biomedical #optics #opticalfiber #innovation #technology

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