It’s a wrap! Photonics Ireland 2025 took place in Cork from 3rd to 5th September 2025, bringing together 208 participants from academia and industry to share knowledge, exchange ideas, and build new connections. The program featured keynote talks, parallel sessions, a panel discussion, an industry session and poster presentations that sparked engaging discussions and showcased exciting developments in the field. A special thanks goes to invited Keynote Speakers; Kei May LAU, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Brian W. Pogue, Dartmouth College & University of Wisconsin – Madison and Aaron Lowe, META Platforms Inc.
Congratulations to the winners of the Best Short Talk and Best Poster awards.
Poster winners:
Yiming Shen (TU Dublin): Enhanced Force Sensing utilizing a Glass-supported WGM Microbubble Resonator
Amna Tiwana (Tyndall): A computationally efficient 2D-root MUSIC parameter estimation for OCDM-based radio over fibre RadCom system
Jordan Walsh (Tyndall): Genetic algorithm optimisation of quantum well heterostructures for integrated photonics
Short talk winners:
Eden Booth (Rogal College of Surgeons Ireland): Investigation of Extracellular Vesicle-Cell Interactions Through Fluorescence Intensity and Lifetime Imaging
David O’Brien (University of Limerick): Varying the illumination patterns for coherent super-resolution microscopy beyond image scanning microscopy (ISM)
Sean Ffrench (Trinity College Dublin): Tailoring Phononic Quantum States via Ultrafast Optical Excitation of Solid-State Quantum Emitters
We thank OPTICA for sponsoring the prizes.
A big thank-you also goes to all our sponsors for their generous support; AMS Technologies; PI (Physik Instrumente); A-GAS; EuroPractice; PhotonHub Europe; CAPPA MTU; Tyndall National Institute.
