Events
Optics and Photonics for Sensing the Environment (ES)
30 July 2023 – 03 August 2023 Munich, Germany
Focuses on using optical sensing to monitor all aspects of the environment, from point sources to global scales.
Topics range from the development of novel technologies and their first field demonstrations to long term applications in monitoring networks.
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Optics and Photonics for Sensing the Environment (ES)
Topics
Optics and Photonics for Sensing the Environment (ES)
- Novel Techniques for Environmental Sensing
- Frequency comb spectroscopy
- Supercontinuum light sources and their applications
- Integrated photonic sensors
- Fibre-based spectroscopic sensors
- Low-cost optical sensors and their networks
- New technologies for remote observations
- Stable isotopes and radiocarbon
- Observations for Environmental and Climate Research
- In-situ measurements of air pollutants and greenhouse gases
- Ground-based remote sensing techniques, e.g., LIDAR, DOAS and FTIR
- Satellite and airborne observations
- Large-scale observation networks
- Aerosols and aerosol cloud interactions
- Aqueous and marine environment
- Optical methods for the cryosphere, e.g., ice sheet, sea ice, permafrost
- Monitoring of the urban environment
- Stakeholder and Agricultural Applications
- Applications in wastewater treatment, oil and gas, waste incineration, renewable and petrogenic energy production, transportation, etc.
- Process quality control
- Safety applications
- Optical techniques for smart agriculture
- Fenceline monitoring
- Stand-off and extractive detection of plumes, leaks and fugitive emissions
Committee
- Lukas Emmenegger, EMPA, Switzerland, Chair
- Jana Jágerská, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway, Chair
- Genevieve Plant, University of Michigan, United States, Program Chair
- Juha Toivonen, Tampereen Yliopisto, Finland, Program Chair
- Kevin Cossel, NIST Boulder, United States
- Christoph Dyroff, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany
- Michele Gianella, IRsweep, Switzerland
- Jane Hodgkinson, Cranfield University, United Kingdom
- Nazanin Hoghooghi, NIST, United States
- Rand Ismaeel, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
- Dennis Killinger, University of South Florida, United States
- Caroline Kistner, Nanoplus Nanosystems and Tech GmbH, Germany
- Robert Menzies, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States
- Wei Ren, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Lukasz Sterczewski, Politechnika Wroclawska, Poland
- Bela Tuzson, EMPA, Switzerland
- Eric Zhang, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Plenary
Tobias Kippenberg
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Hybrid Low Loss Photonic Integrated Circuits: From Chipscale Frequency Combs, Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifiers to Cryogenic Interconnects
Recent advances in attaining ultra low loss highly confining silicon nitride waveguides with loss in the dB-meter range and their heterogeneous integration with MEMS and Lithium Niobate have opened up novel applications that benefit not only from scalable manufacturing, compact form factor and low power, but crucially have now reached a point where the performance is on par and even exceeding that of legacy optical systems. I will describe a range of novel advances, including photonic integrated circuit based frequency agile lasers with fiber laser phase noise, parametric traveling wave amplifiers, Erbium amplifiers on chip, as well as soliton frequency combs, with applications from coherent communications and LiDAR to cryogenic quantum interconnects.
About the Speaker
Tobias J. Kippenberg is Full Professor in the Institute of Physics and Electrical Engineering at EPFL in Switzerland since 2013 and joined EPFL in 2008 as Tenure Track Assistant Professor. Prior to EPFL he was Independent Max Planck Junior Research group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany. While at the MPQ he demonstrated radiation pressure cooling of optical micro-resonators and developed techniques with which mechanical oscillators can be cooled, measured and manipulated in the quantum regime — now part of the research field of Cavity Quantum Optomechanics. Moreover, his group discovered the generation of optical frequency combs using high Q micro-resonators, a principle known now as micro-combs or Kerr combs. This discovery unlocked record data transmission rate, which led to the development of new concepts in telecommunications in collaborations with industry. For his early contributions in these two research fields, he was recipient of the EFTF Award for Young Scientists (2011), The Hemholtz Prize in Metrology (2009), the EPS Fresnel Prize (2009), ICO Award (2014), Swiss Latsis Prize (2015), the Wilhelmy Klung Research Prize in Physics (2015), the 2018 ZEISS Research Award and the R. Wood Award (2021). Moreover, he is first-prize recipient of the "8th European Union Contest for Young Scientists" in 1996 and is listed in the Highly Cited Researchers List of 1% most cited physicists, 2014 – 2021. He is co-founder of the startup LIGENTEC SA, an integrated photonics foundry; DEEPLIGHT SA, a supplier of advanced laser sources; and LUXTELLIGENCE SA, a thin-film lithium niobate foundry.
Greg Rieker
University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Practical Dual Comb Spectroscopy to Improve Energy Systems: Navigating the Interfaces Between Science, Engineering and Industry
A decade of collaboration on dual comb spectroscopy between scientists, engineers, business-people and industrial end-users is reducing methane leakage across vast areas of oil and gas production and optimizing performance of energy producing chemical reactions.
About the Speaker
Greg Rieker is an Associate Professor and Vogel Family Faculty Fellow in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. He leads the Precision Laser Diagnostics Laboratory, which aims to understand and improve energy and atmospheric systems through laser-based sensing. Greg earned a BS from the Missouri University of Science and Technology and MS and PhD degrees from Stanford University. He has affiliations with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Greg received the NSF CAREER award, the Peter Werle and Hiroshi Tsuji Early Career Scientist Awards and the Colorado Governor’s Award for High-impact Research. He is a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors and co-founder and CTO of LongPath Technologies, Inc.
Special Events
2023 Special Events
- IONS+ Munich
- Panel Discussion: Eyes on the Planet – Advances, Limitations and Challenges in Spaceborne Spectrometer Development and Cross-Mission Synergies
- Congress Reception
- Panel Discussion - Application of Remote Sensing to Real-World Problems – Strategies, Successes and Challenges
- Congress Farewell
- CANCELLED: Tour of Spaten-Franziskaner-Bräu GmbH
IONS+ Munich
Sunday, 30 July 07:00 – 19:00
Hilton Munich Park
Fee: USD 50
IONS+ Munich 2023 is a full-day event for students attending the Optica Sensing Congress. IONS, which started in 2008, affords students the opportunity to build an environment where they can exchange research, hear from luminaries and professionals in the field and enjoy the local culture of the host city. The event is open to all students.
Panel Discussion: Eyes on the Planet – Advances, Limitations and Challenges in Spaceborne Spectrometer Development and Cross-Mission Synergies
Tuesday, 01 August 14:00 – 15:30
Picasso/Dali
Presider: Kevin Turpie, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
Panelists:
Emiliano Carmona, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
Tobias Storch ,German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
Claudia Giardino, National Research Council of Italy, Italy
Jens Nieke, European Space Agency, France
David Thompson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
Joe Salisbury, University of New Hampshire, USA
Heidi Dierssen, University of Connecticut, USA
Daniel Spengler, ConstellR GmbH, Germany
Sivert Bakken, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Keely Roth, Planet Labs PBC, USA
Arnold Dekker, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia
Congress Reception
Wednesday, 02 August 18:00 – 19:30
Foyer Mezzanine
This welcome reception is an excellent opportunity to meet or reconnect with friends, colleagues and fellow attendees.
Panel Discussion - Application of Remote Sensing to Real-World Problems – Strategies, Successes and Challenges
Thursday, 03 August 12:00 – 13:00
Picasso/Dali
Presiders:
Wesley Moses, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Sanna Kaasalainen, Finnish Geospatial Research Institute, Finland
Panelists:
Heike Bach, Vista GmbH, Germany
Jean-Philippe MacLean, GHGSat, Inc.,Canada
Chris Rampersad, EarthDaily Analytics, Canada
Andrea Vander Woude, NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, USA
Eyal Ben-Dor, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Arnold Dekker, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia
Congress Farewell
Thursday, 03 August 16:30 – 17:00
Foyer Mezzanine
Please join your fellow congress attendees for a farewell toast.
CANCELLED: Tour of Spaten-Franziskaner-Bräu GmbH
Friday, 04 August 10:30 – 14:30
Spaten-Franziskaner-Bräu GmbH
***This event has been cancelled***
Enjoy a tour of Spaten-Franziskaner-Bräu GmbH with your fellow congress attendees. Discover the art of brewing and immerse yourself in the exciting history of the Spaten, Franziskaner and Löwenbräu breweries. Transportation from the Hilton Munich Park Hotel, beer and snacks are included.
A EUR 65 fee is required to reserve your spot on the tour.
