The largest annual optics and photonics event of the year highlighted exciting new research, networking, and the latest in photonics products and industry trends.

The industry-focused awards recognized innovations in lasers, biomedical, quantum tech, sensors, and cameras and imaging.

The public event at Humboldt University Berlin kicked off on January 14 with 450 participants on site and a further 400 via livestream.

Coherent – Edmund Optics – Jenoptik – Lightfinder – Zeiss: ambassadors provide mentorship and support student and early-career professional engagement worldwide.

The graduate engineer for technical environmental protection took over from Corinna Mutter on January 1.

The society is welcomes 47 new fellow members from across the globe, among them eight from industry.

At its last meeting, the German Physical Society DPG’s board of directors elected industrial physicist Heike Riel as the future president of the world’s largest physics...