TOPTICA Photonics founder Wilhelm Kaenders elected SPIE Fellow
One of the founders of TOPTICA Photonics, Dr. Wilhelm Kaenders, was recognized during this year’s BiOS/Photonics West 2020 for his contributions to the laser world and the company’s community engagement with the SPIE Fellow award.
"Our Fellows represent the technical range, diversity, and ethos of SPIE," notes chair of the SPIE Fellows Committee and Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems engineer Jeffrey Puschell. "With our 72 new Fellows--including for the second year in a row, a record number of women--we honor the innovative technologies that are being developed across the optics and photonics industry by scientists in academia, industry and government. It's been my pleasure to work with the Nominating Committee to recognize the work of these SPIE Members, and it's my pleasure to recognize each one of them for their cumulative and ongoing professional successes."
"A prestigious recognition not only for me but for the whole company!" says Wilhelm Kaenders, CTO of TOPTICA Photonics.
Being infected by cold atom physics as a PhD student at the Institute of Quantum Optics in Hannover, and being part of the technology of professor Hänsch's group at the Max-Planck-Institute in Garching, Kaenders started a successful business activity with tunable diode laser technology. TOPTICA says that "Frequency Division" in the early days and "Frequency Combing" today have started a passion of precision that is the driving force in TOPTICA's extended scientific product range on its way to mature markets.
SOURCE: TOPTICA Photonics; https://www.toptica.com/toptica-news/dr-wilhelm-kaenders-elected-as-new-spie-fellow/
Gail Overton | Senior Editor (2004-2020)
Gail has more than 30 years of engineering, marketing, product management, and editorial experience in the photonics and optical communications industry. Before joining the staff at Laser Focus World in 2004, she held many product management and product marketing roles in the fiber-optics industry, most notably at Hughes (El Segundo, CA), GTE Labs (Waltham, MA), Corning (Corning, NY), Photon Kinetics (Beaverton, OR), and Newport Corporation (Irvine, CA). During her marketing career, Gail published articles in WDM Solutions and Sensors magazine and traveled internationally to conduct product and sales training. Gail received her BS degree in physics, with an emphasis in optics, from San Diego State University in San Diego, CA in May 1986.