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All Things Photonics episodes

March 10, 2020 Donna Strickland; Benjamin Schmitt & Joe Serio: Life Before the Big Bang
A special episode following the journey of a team of scientists as they seek to discover the origins of the universe in the frozen tundra of Antarctica. Plus: an interview with Nobel Prize winner Donna Strickland.
Dr. Donna Strickland is a professor in the department of physics and astronomy at the University of Waterloo and one of the recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018 for developing chirped pulse amplification with her PhD advisor, Dr. Gerard Mourou. Benjamin L. Schmitt is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and project development scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). Joseph Serio is co-founder and vice president of Vertex Optics Inc.
All Things Photonics is produced by Photonics Media and airs every other Tuesday. You can find links to the stories mentioned in the episode on our website, www.photonics.com/podcast.
43 min
February 25, 2020 Ursula Keller: SESAM ultrafast lasers and the world’s most accurate clock; 3D glasses and 500 million years of evolution.
Ursula Keller, SPIE's 2020 Gold Medal winner, talks about her work on the SESAM laser and her plans for the future before retiring. Senior editor Sue Petrie reads her editorial "What If" from this month’s issue of Photonics Spectra, and a look at how researchers at the University of Minnesota are studying cuttlefish to better understand the human brain.

Ursula Keller is a professor of physics at ETH Zurich in Switzerland.

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All Things Photonics is produced by Photonics Media and airs every other Tuesday. You can find links to the stories mentioned in the episode on our website, www.photonics.com/podcast.
43 min
February 11, 2020 Aydogan Ozcan: Democratization of Technology; Hologram or Illusion?
Aydogan Ozcan talks about how his research lab is working to make technology accessible to developing countries. And: how a circus in Germany is replacing its live animals with computer-generated images.
Aydogan Ozcan is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at UCLA.
All Things Photonics is produced by Photonics Media and airs every other Tuesday. You can find links to the stories mentioned in the episode on our website, www.photonics.com/podcast.
53 min
January 28, 2020 Walter Burgess: Lasers in Cinema; 100 Years of Spectroscopy
Walter Burgess explains how his company is using lasers to change how we view movies. And: Elmer Imes, celebrating the 100th anniversary of an unsung hero’s breakthrough discovery featuring Dr. Ronald Mickens, Clark Atlanta University.

All Things Photonics is produced by Photonics Media and airs every other Tuesday.
49 min
January 23, 2020 All Things Photonics Trailer
From the publishers of Photonics Spectra magazine comes a new podcast about how photonics is shaping our world. Editor-in-chief Mike Wheeler and host Emmett Warren sit down to share their favorite moments from season one including upcoming guests Ben Schmitt, Aydogan Ozcan, and Walter Burgess. All Things Photonics airs every other Tuesday.
7 min

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From space exploration and quantum optics, to biomedical imaging and defense, today’s top scientific minds are using lasers, spectroscopy, sensors, and optics to deliver cutting-edge innovation to our society. In intimate conversations with those pushing the boundaries of human knowledge, “All Things Photonics” spotlights photonics industry progress from beyond the lab.