Kipras Redeckas
Organisation: Light Conversion Role: R&D engineer
Kipras Redeckas has been involved in a large number of research projects covering topics that include spectrometers, femtosecond lasers and ultrafast lasers and ultrafast spectroscopy. Redeckas, alongside Karolis Neimontas,
led a team that developed Light Conversion’s Harpia-TG transient grating spectrometer, which is based on a laser-induced transient grating technique. According to Light Conversion ‘the team combined their extensive experience in mechanical and optical engineering of industrial-grade femtosecond lasers and optical parametric amplifiers to design and manufacture the
Jörg Reitterer
Organisation: TriLite Technologies Role: Co-founder & CTO Based in: Vienna, Austria
The emergence of mass-market consumer augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) products will be huge for photonics development, believes Jörg Reitterer. ‘This disruptive technology has the potential
to replace other products, which are ubiquitous today, such as smartphones, smartwatches, headphones, and any other display systems like TVs and monitors,’ he said. Reitterer predicts these devices will be as lightweight as today’s eyewear, while enabling new applications ranging from communication and entertainment
Education: BSc, MSc, and PhD degrees in electrical engineering and microsystems technology from TU Wien, Austria
to work and education: ‘The biggest challenge for consumer AR is to develop next-generation optical architectures that satisfy the requirements of all-day wearable and daylight-bright devices in terms of size, weight, image quality, and power consumption.’ He said TriLite is ‘overcoming these challenges by developing the world’s smallest, lightest, and brightest projection displays for high-volume consumer AR applications’. Reitterer plans to attend SPIE AR/VR/MR 2023, AWE USA 2023 and AWE EU 2023.
Jelmer Renema
Organisation: QuiX Quantum Role: CTO and co-founder Based in: Enschede, the Netherlands
Jelmer Renema is well poised at the cutting edge of photonic quantum computing, as both an assistant professor in the adaptive quantum optics group at the University of Twente, ‘the heart of the Twente photonics ecosystem’, and the CTO of QuiX Quantum. QuiX is rarely out of the headlines at the moment, having announced the world’s most complex quantum photonic processor earlier this year and winning a €14 million contract to build the world’s first photonic universal quantum computer for the German Aerospace Centre in September.
Education: PhD Physics, University of Leiden; MSc, Physics, University of Leiden
Much of this work is based around the low- loss photonic integrated circuits developed by Renema and his team, including PhD student Caterina Taballione (now a quantum system engineer at QuiX), during post-doctoral work at Oxford University. It is this integration of the photonics chip with the infrastructure around it that empowers Quix’s plug-and-play approach and enabled sales to quantum technology companies such as the UK’s Qontrol and France’s Quandela. You can find Renema online at
linkedin.com/ in/jelmer-renema-8902516.
Based in: Vilnius, Lithuania Education: PhD, Physics, Vilnius University
commercial transient grating spectrometer’. Redeckas said it would not have been possible ‘without our colleagues in Vilnius University, Dr Ramūnas Aleksiejūnas, and Dr Saulius Nargelas, who have been using the methodology for decades and provided continuous support in the development of this device’. In August, the LFW Innovators Awards announced that the Harpia-TG transient grating spectrometer and Pharos-Up femtosecond laser were among the best innovations of the year in 2022. This is the third year in a row that Light Conversion has been honoured by the awards.
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