OPS - Optics and Photonics in Sweden 2023

Optics and Photonics in Sweden: 17-19 October 2023
Location: Kista, Stockholm

The conference

OPS-2023 was held at KTH-Electrum in Kista, Stockholm with parallel academic- and industrial sessions along with an exhibition, job fair, and poster sessions.

2023-10-17 14:00-18:00: Nordic Photonics Forum, followed by networking with light food & drinks
2023-10-18 10:00-18:00: Conference & Exhibition, followed by conference dinner
2023-10-19 09:30-15:30: Conference & Exhibition, followed by labvisits

Program and Keynote speakers

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Keynote speakers

Peter Seitz, a.k.a Professor Photon

Peter is Prof. em. of Optoelectronics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology EPFL, he is Senior Technologist Europe of Hamamatsu Photonics, he is Vice President of the large PPP Photonics21, he is Vice President of the
Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences SATW, and he is a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the
Werner-Siemens Foundation. He was the co-founder and first Managing Director of the ETH HighTech startup incubator ieLab (Innovation & Entrepreneurship Lab), and he has co-founded a dozen DeepTech startups himself. Together with his teams, he has published more than 200 scientific publications, he was awarded two dozen international prizes, and he is the inventor or co-inventor of 75 patents.

Peter is also the co-founder of the Swiss “Children’s Lab”, and this experience convinced him that all of us have retained our capacity to marvel at the unexpected and to be thrilled by the almost magical properties of nature – in particular if they are presented by an unexpected, irreverent but uncompromisingly scientific person as Professor Photon.

Summary of Keynote talk: The rumours are true: Professor Photon has an alter ego! Whenever things become less wondrous and exciting but more serious and official, he is transforming into the alternate persona of Peter Seitz. Although Professor Photon may be old-fashioned and sometimes a bit scatter-brained, he leaves no doubt about his enthusiasm for physics when lecturing. He is determined to amaze you with surprising and littleknown facts about photonics: How to coax photons out of sugar, how to build an X-ray source with household items, and (possibly) how to create thermonuclear fusion reactions in your kitchen.

He will also talk about Z-rays, the detection of single photons at room temperature, and he will demonstrate how nature has endowed you with the gift of polarization perception. The motto of Professor Photon is clear and unwavering: “Gå utanför läroplanen” (So that you go beyond the curriculum)! Some of the photons in this presentation will be brought to you by Hamamatsu Photonics Europe.

Håkan Lans

Mr Håkan Lans (M.Sc. Engineering, Ph.D. hc) is an internationally well known electronics hardware and software engineer who has been leading the development of many products such as the computer mouse (known as the Houston Instruments HIpad), the computer colour graphics (US patent 4,303,986) etc. After a degree in Engineering 1968 he continued for 10 years with research and development at the Swedish Defence Research Institute (FOA) and University of Stockholm. In the mid 1980´s he and his team started to work with the development and exploitation of a satellite navigation systems. The challenge was to develop the software and hardware needed to integrate GNSS navigation technology with different types of communication, navigation and surveillance systems. This technology is now internationally known as Self Organising Time Division Multiple Access (STDMA) datalink and has been decided as world standard within the UN special agencies International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) and International Maritime Organisation (IMO). The STDMA technology is also subject to European standardisation within the European Telecommunications Standard Institute (ETSI) and European Organisation for Civil Aviation Equipment (EUROCAE). The basic functions in STDMA was patented 1991 and patent has now been granted in most parts of the world (US patent 5,506,587). Mr Lans is also a holder of a multi engine pilot license.

A summary of few of his many achievements:

1993 Received the International Seatrade Award for the most important innovation for maritime safety.
1993 Awarded the Gold medal by The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA).
1994 Selected for the American Laurels Award 1993 in Electronics.
1995 Receives the Polhems Prize – a gold medal – for excellence in Engineering Science.
1996 Elected permanent member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Science (IVA).
1997 Elected permanent member of The Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences (Kungliga Krigsvetenskapsakademien).
2001 Awarded the degree Ph.D. honoris causa (teknologie doktor) by the University of Uppsala, Sweden.
2002 Awarded His Majesty the King of Sweden Gold Medal with high blue ribbon.
2017 Honorary member of the Swedish Association of Graduate Engineers (Sveriges Ingenjörer) .

Laszlo Veisz

Full professor, Department of Physics, Umeå University, Sweden. Laszlo does research in Plasma Physics, Atomic,
Molecular and Optical Physics and Optics. His current projects are ‘Relativistic sub-5-fs optical parametric synthesizer’, ‘Laser-driven electron acceleration’, ‘Nonlinear attosecond physics’. Some of Laszlo’s achievements are

The first laser-driven electron acceleration and characterization experiments with a few-cycle laser, including the direct temporal measurement of the shortest relativistic electron pulses.
Development of shock-front injection technique to enhance and control laser-driven electron acceleration
The first generation of intense isolated attosecond pulses from relativistic plasmas and their first temporal characterization
First demonstration of nonlinear interaction of 100 eV attosecond pulses with matter.
(Re-)creating a competitive research infrastructure including the high-power few-cycle laser and the laboratory in Umeå, Sweden

Summary of Keynote talk: A unique laser system with higher peak power and shorter pulse duration than most other lasers in the world is now inaugurated at the Department of Physics at Umeå University. The new laser will help to study
electron processes in atoms and molecules, and thereby be able to answer questions associated with processes on very short time-scales. Laszlo Veisz and his research group have designed and built the unique system.

The new Light Wave Synthesizer system is the most powerful in Sweden, and one of the most powerful lasers in the world. More specifically it delivers the highest peak power (100 TW) in combination with very short laser pulse duration. The time span for one laser pulse is 4.3 femtoseconds. The short laser pulses can also be used to generate very short electron bunches. These electron bunches can in their turn enable studies of completely new phenomena with a sub-atomic spatial as well as temporal resolution not available nowadays. Furthermore, this laser system is optimal source to generate single intense attosecond pulses.

Per Frankelius

Chief Initiative Officer Innovation at Agtech 2030 and Associate Professor (Docent) in Business Administration at Linköping University. His research focus on invention and innovation in relation to agriculture and has been published in e.g. Journal of High Technology Management Research, the Lancet, and Agronomy Journal. Per is Fellow of the Linnean Society of London and Fellow of The Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry. He is also a member of the Board of AgroÖst. In 2006 he was elected to the Swedish Broadcasting Commission and during 2004-2010 he was on the board of the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum. In 2013–2019 he was responsible for the project, Greenovation Sweden”. The project was hosted by Linköping University. Among the partners were 3M, Lantmännen, SSAB, SMHI, SLU Holding and Elmia. Since 2015 he have been a member of the jury for the Elmia Agriculture Innovation Award. In 2018, Sweden’s Innovation Agency, Vinnova, granted funding for the Agtech 2030 innovation initiative with Per as process leader. This investment in agricultural technology has an expected budget of 20 million Euro over 10 years. The initiative involves more than 90 companies.

Per have conducted several government missions. For example, he was Principal Secretary of the inquiry on innovation appointed by the Swedish Government (SOU Innovative processes). His research has been presented at conferences in USA, Hungary, Estonia, Latvia, Iceland, Italy, Russia, Dubai, Belgium, Finland, United Arab Emirates, the Neatherlands, Israel, Georgia, Denmark and the UK. Among the clients over the years are Saab, John Deere, Pearson Education, Väderstad, Kinnarps, The University Hospital in Linköping, Gothia Redskap, Sweden’s Agricultural University, Volvo, Ericsson, Trondheim Municipality, Ministry of Trade, Industry, Eka Nobel, Saab, Nordea, Bofors Defense, Electrolux, KF,
Länsförsäkringar, Norrköping symphony orchestra, Swedish Volkswagen, Statistics Sweden, County Administrative Board of Västra Götaland County, Holmen, Landshypotek, Swedbank, Berwaldhallen, Government Offices of Competence and Swedish Post.

Sponsors and Media partners

Program committees

Programme Committee Academic session:

Mattias Hammar, KTH
Magnus Svensson, WISE
Petra Bindig, PhotonicSweden
Joakim Bood, Lund University
Laszlo Veisz, Umeå University
Dietmar Letalick, FOI
Kenneth Järrendahl, Linköping University
Magnus Karlsson, Chalmers
Max Yan, KTH

Programme Committee Industrial session:

Ulf Dahlberg, Ulf B Dahlberg Development
Petra Hardtke, Thorlabs
Urban Konradsson-Botes, Tillquist
Ewa Orlowska, Hamamatsu
Lisa Rähmisch, Lund University
Christofer Silfvenius, Scania
Lennart B.M. Svensson, PhotonicSweden