Laser Focus World is an industry bedrock—first published in 1965 and still going strong. We publish original articles about cutting-edge advances in lasers, optics, photonics, sensors, and quantum technologies, as well as test and measurement, and the shift currently underway to usher in the photonic integrated circuits, optical interconnects, and copackaged electronics and photonics to deliver the speed and efficiency essential for data centers of the future.

Our 80,000 qualified print subscribers—and 130,000 12-month engaged online audience—trust us to dive in and provide original journalism you won’t find elsewhere covering key emerging areas such as laser-driven inertial confinement fusion, lasers in space, integrated photonics, chipscale lasers, LiDAR, metasurfaces, high-energy laser weaponry, photonic crystals, and quantum computing/sensors/communications. We cover the innovations driving these markets.

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Meet the Laser Focus World Team

Editorial

• Patrick McLaughlin, Group Editorial Director, Digital Infrastructure
• Sally Cole Johnson, Editor in Chief
• Lee Dubay, Managing Editor
• Justine Murphy, Multimedia Director, Digital Infrastructure

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• Peter Fretty, VP/Market Leader, Digital Infrastructure
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• Holger Gerisch, Account Executive (Europe)
• Brayden Hudspeth, Sales Development Representative, Digital Infrastructure

Editorial Advisory Board

• Professor Andrea M. Armani, University of Southern California
• Ruti Ben-Shlomi, Ph.D., LightSolver
• James Butler, Ph.D., Hamamatsu
• Natalie Fardian-Melamed, Ph.D., Columbia University
• Justin Sigley, Ph.D., AmeriCOM
• Professor Birgit Stiller, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, and Leibniz University of Hannover
• Professor Stephen Sweeney, University of Glasgow
• Mohan Wang, Ph.D., University of Oxford
• Professor Xuchen Wang, Harbin Engineering University
• Professor Stefan Witte, Delft University of Technology