Informative and exclusive: PHOTONICS interviews

High-performance image sensors, increasing data transmission rates as well as multispectral and multisensor approaches are expanding the range of applications for imaging solutions all the time.

In industrial production, laser processes ensure precision, flexibility and efficiency. Two experts talk about technological potential of AI

Immanuel Bloch, professor discusses with Dr. Thomas Renner which lasers and photonic solutions for quantum technology applications are currently in demand and what developments we can expect to see in the future.

Dr. Bernold Richerzhagen, founder and CEO of SYNOVA S.A. talks about the invention of the Laser MicroJet process and market trends in laser mate-rials processing.

Georg Hofner, spokesman for the management board of SCANLAB, looks back at his first LASER World of PHOTONICS in 1995 and talks about the potential of sensor-based quality-monitored processes in additive manufac-turing.

Dr. Peter Kürz reports on the complex development process with thousands of specialists, fascinating technological milestones and the potential of EUV lithography in the digital age.

In the interview, Dr. Michael Albiez talks about the increasing importance of software and deep learning approaches in microscopy, about the drivers behind the many different microscopy methods, and the influence that the COVID-19 pandemic is having on the market for medical imaging.

Since its foundation in 2006, M Squared from Glasgow has risen to become a leading supplier of lasers and instruments for quantum technology, biophotonics and chemical analy-sis with 120 employees. In our interview, CEO Dr Graeme Malcolm OBE talks about technical and economic potentials of quantum technology, the struggle for ever more precise lasers and their influence on imaging and analytics in biophotonics and life sciences.

"Photonics are crucial for the fight against COVID-19"

"With blue lasers, brightness is the key"

“Our dream is a real-time high spatial resolution of Etna’s gravity map”

“Consolidation will be unavoidable for companies to survive in the competition”

Mourou and other nobelprize-worthy research at CLEO-Europe/EQEC

"There is increasing demand for qualified consulting"

„Mixed-Reality creates new working environments“

“Quantum communication will find its market”

“Optics manufacturing 4.0 is in its infancy—but it’s a start!”

“We now offer precise solutions rather than pure hardware”

“The potential of diode lasers is by no means exhausted”

“Then this technology will literally take off”

“Production with light is the key to Industry 4.0”

“Photonics is a game changer”

“Lightweight construction plays to the strengths of laser processes”

“Metrology is a key component of industrial value creation”