Laser world of Photonics will take place at June in Munich
After the exhibitor and visitor record of 2017, Katja Stolle, LASER World of PHOTONICS Exhibition Director, is dangling the prospect of further growth in 2019. Also awaiting visitors in parallel, from June 24 to 27, 2019, is a trend setting conference boasting seven individual conferences and more
than 5000 experts from around the world. In Munich are expecting more than 1,300 exhibitors from around 45 countries – setting new standards in the process. The imaging and sensor area in particular is growing rapidly. One of the things you will notice is that in addition to the SPIE conference
“Optical Metrology” organizers have included the new OSA conference “Imaging and Applied Optics” in the World of Photonics Congress program.
That means that for the first time there will be seven individual conferences in 2019. Katja Stolle, Project Manager at World of Photonics, provides an
overview of the main topics to be covered during the event: ”Imaging and sensors are trailblazers for quality-assured, high quality, automated production processes in Industry 4.0 – and as such are in demand across industry sectors. We are currently witnessing a strong boost from the automotive industry with electro-mobility and autonomous driving. Optical technologies are paving the way here. Autonomous driving requires camera, LIDAR and radar systems, numerous vehicle on-board sensors as well as data processing and communication systems. None of this is possible
without photonics. Lasers are also considered to be enablers in the production of high voltage batteries, electric motors or lightweight construction for electric vehicles”. The scientific program is of great interest, both for the speakers and for the topics in the lineup: the newcomer is the OSA conference “Imaging and Applied Optics”.
In addition, the “European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the European Quantum Electronics Conference” (CLEO®/Europe – EQEC) will again be shining the spotlight on basic research in the laser technology and quantum optics fields. The WLT “Lasers in Manufacturing” conference will be dealing with industrial laser material machining and additive manufacturing. At the same time the European Optical Society (EOS) will be picking up on trends in the manufacturing of optical systems and the fledgling technology field of optofluidics at the “Optical Technologies” conference. And SPIE Europe is organizing not one but two individual conferences on optical metrology and on digital optical technologies. Also, in partnership with the OSA, it is inviting people to attend the European Conferences on Biomedical Optics (ECBO) dealing with innovative optical techniques in biomedical applications. The main scientific speaker will be Prof. Dr. Karsten Danzmann, Director of the Institute for Gravitational Physics at the University of Hanover and Director of the Albert Einstein Institute.