Events

Optica Online Industry Meeting: Free Space and Optical Wireless Communication
29 August 2023 10:00 - 12:00
Eastern Time (US & Canada) (UTC - 04:00)Watch the Recording on YouTube
Optical free space communications dates as far back as semaphore systems used in Napoleon’s time and more recent infrared (IrDA) wireless links for use in personal computers. But the field has advanced today to provide high bandwidth connections for fixed terrestrial links, earth-to-satellite links, and communications among a constellation of satellites. The proliferation of satellite constellations brings new demands on free space systems, with added requirements for the harsh environment. Meanwhile, optical wireless has expanded to include proposals for vehicle-to-vehicle and traffic light communications, LiFi, and other visible light communications. This online event will discuss the new end-user requirements on optical free space and wireless communications systems.
Co-moderator - Jose Pozo
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Co-moderator - Olga Raz
Speakers

Julien Charton
ALPAO is a solution provider of state-of-the-art ALPAO AO systems for real-time atmospheric turbulence compensation.

Mohammad Danesh
Transcelestial, CTO
Transcelestial is a solution provider for quickly deployable laser communication links.
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Harald Haas
PureLifi
PureLiFi is the inventor and the global leader of LiFi technology. LiFi, meaning Light Fidelity, is a high-speed, bidirectional, networked, and mobile wireless communication that uses light to transmit data. By flickering the light from a single LED, a change too quick for the human eye to detect, it can efficiently transmit far more data than a cellular tower. The adequate answer to the demands of our digitally enhanced future.

Robert Hughes
Aircision, CEO
Aircision plans to roll out their modification to upgrade existing line-of-sight communication links using free-space optics (FSO). Their system claims high-throughput, high-security, low-interference, low energy-per-bit, as well as being license-free. The Eindhoven-based start-up has successfully demonstrated prototype links delivering 10 Gbps over a distance of 2.5 km, while their first commercial system will cover 5 km at 10 Gbps. Their current partnerships include CERN.

Pu Jian
Cailabs, Chief Product Officer & Deputy CEO
Cailabs is a system manufacturer of turbulence-resistant space telecommunication links.

John Jost
Enlightra, Co-CEO and Co-Founder
Enlightra develops chip-scale laser-based multicolor photonic engines for extreme-broadband data transmission.

Alexey Kovsh
Alfalume, CEO and Co-founder
Alfalume is developing and commercializing uncooled quantum-dots-based photonic platforms for datacom.

David Mackey
mBryonics, CTO
mBryonics is a system manufacturer of Earth- and Inter-Satellite optical links.

Mikolaj Podgórski
Scanway, COO
Scanway Space is a US-Polish company and one of the European leaders in the field of advanced optical payloads and space cameras. With 8 year’s experience in the space industry, their 50-person team of engineers and specialists has been involved in 8 missions, building 22 prototypes with 15 partners They offer two types of optical payloads– space telescopes for Earth Observation and vision systems for satellite (and other spacecraft) observation.

Guilhem de Valicourt
Nubis Communications, VP of Engineering
Nubis Communications is developing a breakthrough optical technology platform that enables the industry’s highest density and lowest power optical interconnect. Nubis Communications innovate across photonics, electronics, packaging, and manufacturing to create optics significantly more dense, scalable, and lower power than existing solutions, breaking the I/O wall in data centers and enabling more advanced computing, AI, and machine learning.

Valentin Genuer
PHASICS, Field Application Manager
PHASICS is a provider of unique range of SWIR wavefront sensors with the highest resolution on the market to ensure FSOC systems perform their complex tasks.

Bob Brumley
Laser Light Communications, CEO
Laser Light Communications is designing the network architecture of the future. For simplicity, the network of the past was copper, today it’s fibre, while the network of the future will be converged optical, ground networks, subsea cables and satellites. LLC wants to reinvent data as a commodity, not as a service. That means faster, cheaper, more relevant, and closer data usage by both the consumer and enterprise. The satellites are planned for Q4 2024 operating together with 150 ground node systems deployed worldwide.