LASER World of PHOTONICS Industry Days

Dr. Axmann studied Aerospace Engineering in Munich, Germany and Cranfield UK and got a PhD in aerospace engineering. He holds also a master in business administration. During his time at DLR, he prepared different satellite missions for operations and worked in different specific projects for the board. From 2017 onwards, he was the Founding Director of the Institute of Data Science in Jena and head of the department Strategy Space Research and Technology. Since summer 2020 he accompanied the development of the quantum computing

Denis Dontsov received his doctorate in 2003 from the Technical University of Ilmenau in the field of high precision laser vibrometry. He worked for the SIOS Messtechnik Ilmenau since 2002 in the R&D department. In the period from 2010 to 2016 he was a R&D Director of the company and since 2016 he is a CEO of the SIOS Messtechnik GmbH. His research activities lie in particular in the development of metrological devices based on the laser interferometer technology in particular nanopositioning and nanomeasuring machines and ultra-stable laser interferometers.

Chris Dorman is Senior Vice President and General Manager at Coherent Inc a global leader in lasers, photonic components and tools. Based in the Glasgow facility, he joined Coherent in 2002 as a Product Line Manager and has held various Business Management positions.

He has an MA in Physics from Oxford University and a PhD in Lasers and Quantum Physics from Imperial College, London. He is currently Chair of the UK Photonics Leadership Group, Chair of Photonics Scotland (formerly the Scottish Optoelectronics Organisation), is a visiting Professor to the University of Strathclyde and a Fellow of the Institute of Physics. He was awarded an OBE for services to Photonic and Laser Technology and Exports in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List, 2019.

Stefan Filipp has been appointed Professor in Technical Physics at the TU Munich and Director of the Walther-Meissner-Institute of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 2020. Before he has led the superconducting qubit team at the IBM Research – Zurich Laboratory to develop architectures for quantum computing based on superconducting circuits. He has joined IBM in 2014 as permanent research staff member of the experimental quantum computing team at IBM T.J. Watson Re-search lab in Yorktown Heights, NY, US. His degree in physics he has received from the Vienna University of Technology, Austria, and the Upp-sala University, Sweden for his studies on quantum geometric phases effects, for which he was awarded the Victor-Hess Award. He then worked as Postdoc and later Senior Researcher on quantum computing, quantum simulation and quantum optics with superconducting circuits at the ETH Zurich. He has been co-chair expert panel 'Quantencomputing' of the Bun-deskanzleramt, Germany in 2020 and is currently leading the GeQCoS project on building a German quantum computer based on superconducting qubits.

Dr. Moritz Förster studied chemistry at the University of Frankfurt and has been active as a speaker in the Photonics Forum of the VDMA since 2019. Since May 2020 he is also managing director of the Working Committee “Lasers and Laser Systems for Material Processing” (AG Laser). The AG Laser represents the interests of around 30 companies before politics, business partners, the interested public, and the media. The member companies include leading manufacturers of both laser sources and laser machining systems. This AG Laser profile is complemented with producers of components specific to laser technologies. An independent organisation within VDMA (Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau, or German Engineering Federation), AG Laser has been the proactive voice of Germany’s laser industry since 1988. With about 3,300 members from Germany and other EU (including EFTA) nations, VDMA is the largest industrial association in Europe.

Andreas Frahm has joined TRUMPF in April 2017 as Senior Sales Manager and is today responsible for the Global Sales operation at TRUMPF’s LASER TECH-NOLOGY division.

After graduating in industrial engineering at the Hamburg University of Technology, Frahm joined Dräger, a leading manufacturer of medical and safety technology. During more than twenty years at Dräger Medical he gained extensive expertise in implementing regional and groupwide sales and service strategies. Following career steps in Europe and Asia-Pacific he was appointed Chief Sales Officer at the Dräger Group in Luebeck. Frahm spent more than 11 years of his professional career in the Asia-Pacific region, which included Management positions in South Korea, China and Singapore.

Prior to joining TRUMPF, Frahm was the managing direc-tor at SLM Solutions responsible for Sales, Marketing, Service and Application Engineering. At SLM Solutions he was focusing on the development of the global footprint of the company and especially the implementation of a comprehensive sales and service network worldwide in order to enable the high growth momentum of the company. That included the set-up of an industry-specific business development and application engineering team for the different target industries, like aviation & aerospace industries.

Frahm is 58 years old, married and has three children.

Reinhard Genzel, born 1952 in Bad Homburg v. d. H., Germany, is one of the Directors of Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Professor in the Graduate School of the University of California, Berkeley and an Honorary Professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich. He is a Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society and a member of the US National Academy of Sciences.

His research interests include astrophysics of galactic nuclei, star formation, kinematics and cosmic evolution of galaxies, massive black holes and experimental infrared, submillimeter and millimeter astronomy.

He has received numerous honours and awards, including the Shaw Prize of The Shaw Prize Foundation and the Crafoord Prize in Astronomy.

In 2020, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Andrea Ghez, for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy.

Prof. Dr. Constantin Haefner has been managing director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT in Aachen, Germany, since 2019. Previously, Haefner led the Advanced Photon Technologies Program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA, where he was responsible for the programmatic development and application of next-generation, high average power energetic laser systems for scientific research, national security and commercial applications.

Haefner received his physics degree from the University of Konstanz (1999) and his PhD from the University of Heidelberg (2003). In 2004, he became Chief Laser Scientist at the Nevada Terawatt Facility in Reno, Nevada. In 2006, he moved to LLNL, where he led the research and de-velopment of cutting-edge technologies for large, high-intensity, high-power laser systems. In 2017, he was named an OSA Fellow for his pioneering work in next-generation high average power petawatt laser systems.

Since his graduation, Stefan Hengesbach has been intensively engaged in photonics, especially semiconductor lasers. He received his diploma in engineering from the RWTH Aachen University in 2008.

After a stay abroad at the Fraunhofer Center for Laser Technologies in Michigan, he took up a position as a university lecturer at the Chair for Laser Technology of the RWTH Aachen University and as a research associate at the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT in Aachen until 2016.

A major aspect of his research has been the modelling and simulation of optical systems, the design of diode laser modules and especially the frequency stabilization and high-power multiplexing technologies. He re-ceived his doctorate degree (Dr.-Ing.) in 2014 at the RWTH Aachen University.

In 2016, Dr. Hengesbach switched to the TRUMPF Group. As Executive Assistant to the Managing Director Sales and Services at TRUMPF he gained intensive insights into sales, services and competition in the area of laser sources and materials processing.

In 2018, he became managing director of the TRUMPF Group's newly founded spin-off Q.ANT, which focuses on the development of products based on quantum optics.

Bruno Huttner is the Director of Strategic Quantum Initiatives, and a Quantum Key Distribution Expert at ID Quantique. He is also the co- chairman of the Quantum-Safe Security Working Group (QSS WG) organized by the Cloud Security Alliance.

Bruno joined ID Quantique in 2014, participating in business development and product management in the Quantum Security division. He then started the space programs, aiming at developing quantum key distribution globally, using satellites.

Bruno is an engineer (Ecole Centrale Paris) and a physicist (PhD from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology). After an early career in academia, Bruno moved to business. Prior to joining ID Quantique, he participated in the creation of a startup company, Luciol Instruments, which used quantum technologies for improving test and measurements equipment.

Dr. Kaenders is a co-founder of TOPTICA Photonics AG, initially commercializing developments of the German academic quantum community and active in test equipment for optical data storage. Today, laser products and laser systems for the field of Quantum Technology, Biophotonics and Nondestructive Material Testing are developed and offered to the global market, including current major and future players in the quantum computing and sensing arena.

Tunable and fixed-frequency single mode diode laser, ultrafast fiber laser, and high level system engineering combined with a unique scaling capability for these market segments are the strengths of the company that today employs about 400 highly qualified individuals of all technical disciplines in Germany, USA, Japan and China.

Wilhelm is Fellow of the Optical Society and SPIE, and serves as the Chairman of the LWoP/WoQ Industrial Advisory Board for Messe München.

Dr. Markus Kogel-Hollacher began his activities in the laser industry working for his MS degree at the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology (Aachen) in 1994. Since then the focus of his work is in the field of monitoring and control of laser processes.

After earning his MS degree in physics in 1996 from the RWTH Aachen University in Germany he joined Precitec, Germany continuing the work with the em-phasis on transferring R&D results to industrial solutions. This work has been discussed extensively in several technical journals and presented in various conferences. In his position as head of the department R&D projects in the Precitec Group he oversees national and international governmentally funded pro-jects.

Working together with RTD performers and end users his guiding principle is to continuously increase the reliability and the use of process monitoring and process control devices in laser materials processing.

Dr. Kogel-Hollacher is Fellow of the LIA, member of the Board Of Stakeholders at Photonics21 in Brussels, was Finalist at the Innovation Award Laser Technology in 2012 and 2014 and served as an expert for evaluating project proposals on national and international level.

Dr. Arnold Mayer is president and founder of Optech Consulting, a consultancy specializing in the laser and photonics industry. The company provides consulting for industry, investment bodies, and government. It publishes periodic reports on the industrial laser market and organizes the International Laser Marketplace symposium. Prior to founding Optech Consulting in 1992 Arnold held positions in business development, industrial R&D, and management consulting. He received his degree in physics from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, and his PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart.

Jörg Mayer, born in 1972, is a communications scientist. As a business consultant with Andersen Consulting / Accenture from 1998 to 2001, he was engaged in the implementation of Customer Relationship Programs in large‐scale companies – mainly in Germany, the USA and Great Britain. Until 2007 he led PR- and advertising campaigns with the agency Scholz & Friends / Lowe Worldwide for large institutions and international service companies. Between 2007 and 2017 he was engaged as CEO of distinctive renewable energy associations, shaping the effects of Germany’s energy transition. Since 2018, he heads the German Industry Association SPECTARIS with a membership base of more than 450 companies, representing industries with a total turnover of 70 bn. Euros and more than 300.000 employees in Germany. SPECTARIS is the German voice for Optics, Photonics, Analytical and Medical Technologies.

With more than 25+ years’ experience within the semiconductor industry, Eric Mounier PhD. is Director of Market Research at Yole. Eric provides daily in-depth insights into current and future semiconductor trends, markets and innovative technologies (such as Quantum computing, Si photonics, new sensing technologies, new type of sensors ...). Based on relevant methodological expertise and a strong technological background, he works closely with all the teams at Yole to point out disruptive technologies and analyze and present business opportunities through technology & market reports and custom consulting projects. With numerous internal workshops on technologies, methodologies, best practices and more, Yole’s Fellow Analyst ensures the training of Yole’s Technology & Market Analysts.

In this position, Eric Mounier has spoken in numerous international conferences, presenting his vision of the semiconductor industry and latest technical innovations. He has also authored or co-authored more than 100 papers as well as more than 120 Yole’s technology & market reports.

Previously, Eric held R&D and Marketing positions at CEA Leti (France). Eric Mounier has a PhD. in Semiconductor Engineering and a degree in Optoelectronics from the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble (France).

Rainer Müller is professor of physics education at the Technische Universität Braunschweig. He is active in Quantum Education, for example in the European Quantum Technology Flagship. He is member of Cluster of Excellence Quantum Frontiers and the Quantum Valley Lower Saxony.

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• Scientific director Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (2014 acceptance in prestigious Leib-niz association);
• Chair for Physical Chemistry at the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Director Institute of Physical Chemistry;
• World leading expert in Biophotonic / optical health technology research covering the complete range from photonic basic research towards translation into clinically applicable methods;
• Author and co-author of more than 920 scientific publications with more than 24.200 citations, h-index 71 (Web of Science 03/21). Inventor of numerous patents on the topic of spectroscopic instrumentation
• University teacher and active member in university self-administration and several supervisory boards.

Research focus

The core of the research activities focuses on researching, developing and implementing innovative opti-cal/photonic methods and tools for multiscale spectroscopy and multimodal imaging together with particle- and chip-based molecular point-of-care concepts for analytics, diagnostics and therapy in the fields of medicine, life and environmental sciences, quality and process analytics as well as pharmacy. The implementation of novel fiber con-cepts for spectroscopy and imaging as well as fiber-assisted sensor technology and the use of surface-enhanced detection techniques to increase the sensitivity of spectroscopic methods complete the research profile. In general, the research pursues the goal of covering the entire analysis measurement chain, whereby sample preparation methods that can be used locally and independently of the laboratory are investigated and imple-mented in the entire workflow. Statistical, chemometric and image-evaluating methods as well as machine learn-ing are researched and used to evaluate the data obtained.

Dr. Heike Riel is IBM Fellow, Head of Science & Technology and Lead of IBM Research Quantum Europe & Africa.

She leads the research agenda and operation of the Science & Technology department aiming to create scientific and technological breakthroughs in Quantum Computing and Technologies, Physics of Artificial Intelligence, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and to explore new directions to computing. She is a distinguished expert insemiconductor electronic and optoelectronic devices and focuses her research on advancing the frontiers of information technology through the physical sciences.

She received the master’s in physics from the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and the PhD in physics from University of Bayreuth and an MBA from Henley Business College (UK). She has authored more than 150 peer reviewed publications, filed more than 50 patents and has received several major awards and distinctions.

Quantum Computing – The New Computing Paradigm

The evolution of today’s classical computers is a technological achievement without equal. Digital computing has achieved unprecedented improvements reaching exponential growth of processing power following the prediction of Moore’s law since more than 50 years. With targeting the 2-nm technology node, the progress on future miniaturization reaches a limit and other advancements are quested. The future of computing will combine parallel improvements in three technologies like conventional processor, hardware for artificial intelligence and quantum processors.

Quantum computing has been explored over the last 40 years and has evolved from an exotic physics topic existing only in the realm of science fiction into working devices. For the first time, five years ago we have provided public access to a quantum computer via the cloud and have accelerated progress toward building and applying quantum systems, including understanding the scope of quantum computing, pushing its hardware technology, developing applications, and advancing error correction protocols.

In this talk, I will give an overview of quantum computing and the technical advancements we want to implement the next years across the stack from hardware to applications.

Thursday, 24 June 2021, 14:20 – 14:40 CET

Christian Schmitz was born in 1959 in Wuppertal, Germany and studied Physics at the Universität Gesamthochschule Siegen (Siegen Comprehensive University). He gained his doctorate at the Institut für Strahlwerkzeuge (IFSW, Institute for Laser Tools) at the University of Stuttgart.

In 1999, Christian Schmitz joined TRUMPF Laser GmbH + Co. KG in Schramberg, Germany in the Development department and then became Group and Project Leader. He was Member of the Management Board as Head of the Research and Development department for material processing from 2005.

Christian Schmitz was Vice President for Lasers at TRUMPF Inc. in Farmington, USA in 2009.

He was Managing Director at TRUMPF Lasertechnik GmbH in Ditzingen, Germany from 2010 to 2017, responsible for production in the Laser Technology Business Division.

Matthias Schulze is Director of marketing for Coherent Inc, a global leader in lasers and photonics components. He joined Coherent in 1995 as a sales engineer in Germany and subsequently was holding various positions in marketing. First at Coherent Luebeck in Germany and later in companywide responsibilities. He holds a PhD in physics from the Technical University in Berlin, Germany.

Peter Soldan verantwortet bei der VDI Technologiezentrum GmbH das Management von Förderprogrammen im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF). Zu seinen Aufgaben gehören die Konzeption und Umsetzung von Fördermaßnahmen für Forschung und Industrie sowie Outreach-Aktivitäten.

Er ist seit 2000 im Bereich der Forschungs- und Innovationsförderung beim VDI Technologiezentrum tätig. Gegenwärtig ist er als Leiter Quantensysteme mit der Projektträgerschaft zu Photonik und Quantentechnologien für das BMBF sowie den Koordinierungsaufgaben des VDI Technologiezentrums zur europäischen Technologieplattform Photonics21 und zum EU Quantum Flagship betraut. Peter Soldan ist promovierter Physiker.

Dr. Thomas Strohm received his PhD in 1999 at the MPI for Solid State Research in Stuttgart where he did theoretical work on high-temperature superconductors in Prof. Cardona’s group. Thereafter, he joined the Corporate Research division of Robert Bosch GmbH. For more than 10 years, he worked in SW engineering and as a system and SW architect. Among other projects, he was responsible for the development of a SW engineering curriculum and until end of 2016 gave courses on System and SW architecture at Bosch. In 2013, he started scouting Quantum Cryptography and, later, Quantum Computing. Currently, Thomas is coordinating the Quantum Technologies activities at Bosch. He is also part of Europe’s Quantum Community Network (QCN) and the Coordination Office (FCO) of Europe’s Quantum Flagship Initiative and furthermore Vice President of the European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC). Thomas is also part of the QRANGE public-funded project and contributes to the research on modelling quantum random number generators.

Andreas Thoss is a journalist and physicist. In 2003, he received his doctorate in physics with a thesis on ultrashort pulse laser research, which he conducted at the Max Born Institute in Berlin. In the same year, he joined the international publishing house John Wiley & Sons. At Wiley, he gained extensive experience as an editor and publisher in book, journal and online publishing. Among other things, he founded four journals there. In 2010, he started THOSS Media, where he launched one more academic journal. As an expert in content marketing, he wrote several hundred texts that were published on more than 70 different platforms. Since 2016, he has also been Contributing Editor, Germany, at the magazine Laser Focus World.

Michael Totzeck is a Fellow and head of the Innovation Management Manufacturing at ZEISS Corporate Research and Technology (CRT). He received his PhD in physics from the Technical University of Berlin in the year of the break of the Berlin Wall. After heading a group on high resolution microscopy at the University of Stuttgart he joined ZEISS Semiconductor manufacturing Technology (SMT) in 2002 as a principal scientist for polarization optics. In 2008 he became director of the metrology department in ZEISS CRT. In 2010 he was appointed as Senior Principal and in 2015 as Fellow. In parallel he is an honorary professor at the University of Konstanz and teaches technical optics there. He is author and coauthor of 70 patent families and >30 papers in refereed journals. His research interests comprise any kind of science that has to do with optics, - in particular imaging, metrology, lithography, quantum technology and digitalization. Shaping the Future: How Photonics Drives – and Is Driven by – the Major Technology Trends

Dr. Christoph Ullmann, born in 1963, studied mechanical engineering at RWTH University of Aachen and wrote his diploma thesis at MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA. From 1990 until 1994 he worked at Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology in Aachen and graduated as Dr.-Ing. from RWTH Aachen in 1994. In 1995 Dr. Ullmann was co-founder and managing director of DILAS Diodenlaser, Mainz before he founded Laserline GmbH in Mülheim-Kärlich in 1997. Since that time, he is managing director of Laserline and developed the company to the leading manufacturer of high power diode lasers.