Exhibitors at LASER World of PHOTONICS 2022 and the new World of QUANTUM actively took advantage of the opportunity to submit their innovations for the Innovation Award: More than 50 product innovations in six categories were submitted and reviewed by the top-class jury.
The three best submissions per category have now been determined:
Biophotonics and medical engineering
Light Conversion - CRONUS-3P laser source for nonlinear microscopy
Hamamatsu Photonics - ORCA-Quest
Class 5 Photonics GmbH - White Dwarf WD-1300-dual
Laser and optoelectronics / Illumination and energy
TRUMPF Photonic Components - ViBO
SI Stuttgart Instruments - ALPHA
ID Quantique - The ID281 Series: Ultrafast and photon-number-resolving superconducting nanowire detectors
Laser systems for industrial production engineering
QiOVA - VULQ1 Multibeam marking solutions
Lumentum - High-Performance Multi-Junction Addressable VCSEL Arrays for Long-Range LiDAR Applications
Light Conversion - CARBIDE-80W-2mJ femtosecond laser with BiBurst
Optics / Manufacturing technology for optics
NIL Technology Apps - Meta Optical Elements (MOE)
Glassomer GmbH - Glassomer
Edmund Optics - Stemmed Laser Mirrors
Quantum technologies
ColdQuanta - Albert: Quantum Matter Design Platform
ID Quantique - The ID281 Series: Ultrafast and photon-number-resolving superconducting nanowire detectors
Hübner Photonics - C-WAVE GTR
Sensors, test and measurement / Optical Measuring Systems / Imaging
XARION Laser Acoustics - Laser-Ultrasonic Automated Spot Weld Inspection
Perspectiva Solutions - HUARIS
Emberion - Emberion VS20: Wide spectral range VIS-SWIR camera
What happens next?
One winner will be chosen from each of the top three, and from these six final category winners, the jury will select this year's Innovation Award winner.
It remains exciting!
Starting in March 2022, the jury will review the submissions and select the three best innovations per category. Following this, the winners per category as well as this year's Innovation Award winner will be determined from this "Innovations" hit list in a voting process.
The winners will be informed in advance of the trade show; the award ceremony will take place ceremoniously on site at LASER World of PHOTONICS 2022.
The Innovation Award comes with prize money of 5,000 euros. This award is sponsored by Europa Science with the trade publications Electro Optics, Laser Systems/Europe, Fibre Systems, and Imaging and Machine Vision Europe, as well as LASER World of PHOTONICS.
| Name | Company |
| Adam T. Clare | Association of Laser Users (AILU) |
| Tom Hausken | Optica – formerly OSA |
| Gabriele Jansen | Vision Ventures, Germany |
| Dr. Wilhelm Kaenders | TOPTICA Photonics AG |
| Prof. Peter Loosen | Fraunhofer-Institut für Lasertechnik ILT |
| Prof. Jürgen Popp | Leibniz-Institut für Photonische Technologien Jena |
| Dr. Peter Soldan | VDI Technologiezentrum GmbH |
| Prof. Ronad Sroka | LIFE-Center, Hospital of University Munich |
| Dr. Wenko Süptitz | SPECTARIS |
| Prof. Andreas Tünnermann | Fraunhofer-Institut für Angewandte Optik und Feinmechanik IOF |
| Prof. Paul Urbach | TU Delft |
The Start-Up Award will be on hold in 2022 and will take place again at LASER World of PHOTONICS 2023.
