Exhibit Hall & Activities

Join Optica Publishing Group’s journal editors for an informal discussion over donuts! Bring your questions about understanding acceptance criteria, responding to reviewers, becoming a reviewer and more. The editors welcome your queries, concerns and ideas for any of our journals. All CLEO attendees are welcome.

CLEO Career Fair is a comprehensive event that offers candidates a wide range of resources and opportunities to enhance their career endeavors. This event includes access to employers, job openings, career programming, mock interviews, and LinkedIn/resume critiques. The career fair will take place from 9 -11 May during the show floor hours. Career programming will take place from 9 - 10 May.

This panel discussion explores critical bottlenecks and identifies desired technological development efforts to enable increased market penetration for optically-relevant quantum technologies. The focus is on hardware development necessary to advance the capabilities of quantum computing and sensing systems requiring optical control, such as neutral atoms, ions and all-photonic platforms.

Moderator

• Garrett D. Cole, Manager, Thorlabs Crystalline Solutions, USA

Panelists

• Jamil Abo-Shaeer, Co-Founder and CEO, Vector Atomic, USA
• Ben Bloom, Co-Founder and CTO, Atom Computing, USA
• Nate Gemelke, Co-Founder and CTO, QuEra, USA
• Brennan Peterson, Senior Director, PsiQuantum, USA
• Juan Pino, Manager, Quantinuum, USA

Speaker: Benjamin Eggleton, The University of Sydney, Australia
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Speaker: Jose Pozo, Optica, USA

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Thorlabs has served the photonics community for over 30 years, currently offering more than 22,000 products. In addition to a broad range of quality photonics tools and technologies, we now produce advanced solutions for the quantum photonics community, developing and delivering ultra-low noise lasers, ultrastable optical reference cavities, single-photon SPDC sources and single-photon detectors.

Speaker

• Mike  DeArmond, Business Development Engineer

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Optical fibers are a key part of the photonics industry — directly enabling large-volume applications. Still, they also represent a strategic component in manufacturing industrial photonics systems — from lasers to micro-processing machines. This Market Focus session reviews several specialized optical fiber technologies and their applications.

Moderator

• Eric Mottay, President, Amplitude, France

Panelists

• Martin Nunez, Chief for Research and Engineering, Coractive, UnitedKingdom
• Samuel Poulain, Directeur Général, Le Verre Fluoré, France
• Jean Sauvage-Vincent, CEO, GLOPhotonics, France
• Ask Svane, Senior Product Line Manager - Fiber and Modules, NKT Photonics, Denmark

Speaker: Arti Agrawal, Vividhata Pty Ltd, Australia

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Join Optica for snacks, drinks and to learn more about your member benefits.

CLEO Career Fair is a comprehensive event that offers candidates a wide range of resources and opportunities to enhance their career endeavors. This event includes access to employers, job openings, career programming, mock interviews, and LinkedIn/resume critiques. The career fair will take place from 9 -11 May during the show floor hours. Career programming will take place from 9 - 10 May.

This panel discussion has a range of experts from the laser industry discuss applications for the e-mobility market. Each panelist presents on their solutions for their respective market, followed by a question and answer session. Attend and learn about new applications for lasers and how lasers are used in this fast-growing industry.

Moderator

• Klaus Kleine, Director Laser Application, Coherent, USA

Panelists

• Majid Abbasi, Battery Industry Manager, Coherent, USA
• Vincent Issier, Sr. Director of Strategic Marketing, MKS Instruments, USA
• Markus Kogel-Hollacher, Head of Department R&D Projects, Precitec Group, Germany
• Wilhelm Pfleging, Group Leader-Laser Technology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
• Anthony Prugar, Global Sales Leader, TRUMPF, USA
• Toby Strite, Senior Director of Strategic Marketing, IPG Photonics, USA

Join the Optica Ultrafast Optical Phenomena Technical Group for this special event highlighting research being done in this topic area by students and early career professionals. Hear rapid-fire presentations of the work they will present during the conference poster sessions, and network with colleagues.

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Speaker: Niklaus Wetter, Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares - IPEN/SP, Brazil

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Speaker

Konstantin Vodopyanov, University of Central Florida, USA

Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) offer the best in single-photon detection: near-ideal detection efficiency, low dark count rates, excellent timing precision, broadband operation and fast recovery times. This talk discusses benefits that SNSPDs can provide to applications in quantum information and communication, as well as recent advances enabling faster recovery times and photon-number resolution. 

Speaker

• Tyle  Stelzig, Product Manager, Quantum Sensing, USA , ID Quantique, USA

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Speaker: Gwenn Pallier, Product Line Manager at Cailabs Rennes Area, France

Glass is pervasive in many facets of our lives and a key component of industrial manufacturing. It remains a difficult material to process and is uniquely suited to laser-matter interaction. This Market Focus session emphasizes the applications and markets offered by advanced glass processing technologies.

Moderator

• Eric Mottay, President, Amplitude, France

Panelists

• Donnell Walton, Director, Corning, Incorporated, USA
• Mike Armas, Chief Operating Officer, Citrogene, USA
• Andrea Lovera, Chief Technology Officer, Femtoprint, Switzerland
• Joshua Stearns, Business Development Manager, 3-D Micromac, USA

Join us as Optica Student Ambassadors discuss career development.

Speakers

• Arti Argawal, CEO and Founder of Vividhata Pty LTD.
• Joshua Burrow, Optics, Bio-photonics & Nanomaterials
• Brandon Buscaino, Research Scientist at Ciena
• Sangyeon (Fred) Cho, FMD Fellow at Mass General Hospital
• Da Ros Francesco, Senior Researcher at DTU Fotonik Villum Young Investigator
• Sejeong Kim, Lecturer at University of Melbourne
• Lynhui (Lynn) Yu, Health Sensing at Apple

The CLEO Career Zone is a comprehensive career event that offers job seekers and attendees a wide range of resources and opportunities to aid them in the success of their career goals and endeavors. This event includes access to employers, job openings, career programming with Tiffany Phu, resume critiques, mock interviews, and LinkedIn profile reviews. Attendees can upgrade their resumes, refine their interviewing skills, create a professional online presence, or discover their next career opportunity.

The advent of low-cost, agile launch capabilities – along with innovations in satellite platforms  – is enabling an economic revolution in space-based sensors and systems. Too, traditional space science and defense/intel mission planners are increasingly looking to these platforms to augment their existing programs. This panel discussion explores the rapidly evolving market for space optics, its multi-disciplinary nature and what it takes to get an optical system designed, tested and deployed to space. Panelists also discuss their career paths and provide advice and guidance for optical professionals who wish to enter this exciting field.

Moderator

• Kevin Kearney, Optimax, USA

Panelists

• Matt Bolcar, Optics System Lead, Roman Space Telescope, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
• Christine Bradley, Optical Technology Group Supervisor, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
• Juan Fernandez, Optical Systems Engineer, Planet Labs, USA
• Kate Medicus, CEO, Ruda Optical, USA
• Nasrat Raouf, Sr. Optical Engineer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA

Speaker: Arti Agrawal, Vividhata Pty Ltd, Australia
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