Emerging Technologies Set the Stage for LASER World of PHOTONICS 2025 | Show Preview | May 2025

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LASER World of PHOTONICS (LASER Munich) returns to Munich from June 24 to 27, relaunching after an off year in 2024. The trade show and fair convenes industry players and leading companies, spotlighting photonics components, systems, and applications.

Event organizers are anticipating more than 40,000 visitors from over 70 countries for the fair’s 27th iteration.

LASER Munich’s program will include four forums offering a comprehensive program. Session topics range from those in integrated photonics, biophotonics, and laser materials processing to laser optics and test and measurement tools. The biophotonics and medical engineering forum will offer attendees access to panels addressing laser-enabled technologies in health care, medical robotics, and patient care. Session chairs include experts Jürgen Popp of Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology eV, Mark Bischoff of Carl Zeiss AG, and Ronald Sroka of the Hospital of LMU Munich’s LIFE Center.

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Along with the trade fair portion of the event, the World of Photonics Congress — the largest photonics technical conference in Europe — will be co-located with LASER Munich, taking place June 22 to 27. The 2025 congress will return to a five-conference format, including CLEO/Europe-EQEC, which addresses all facets of optical technologies and photonics in basic research. Four additional conferences, Lasers in Manufacturing, Digital Optical Technologies, Optical Metrology, and European Conferences on Biomedical Optics, will focus on applied sciences based in their fields. Nobel Laureates Anne L’Huillier and Ferenc Krausz will also feature as part of the congress.

World of QUANTUM will run for the third time, during June 24 to 27. Building on its previous two iterations, the event will focus on technologies that bridge the gap between photonics and quantum applications, such as highly precise beam sources, polarizers, optical resonators, and photon counters, among others.

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automatica will also once again be co-located with LASER Munich; the trade fair for smart automation and robotics will debut the newly created munich_i platform, a joint project from automatica, Messe München, and the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence, which offers a stage for ideas from the most acclaimed and promising pioneers in the space. Under the theme of intelligence empowering tomorrow, the high-tech platform provides networking opportunities for innovation drivers from science, business, politics, and society.

New to the comprehensive fair for this year is a joint area between LASER Munich and automatica, which will host the premier of the MedtecLIVE Healthtech Pavilion. For the first time, it will bring developers from medical technology manufacturers together with experts in laser technology, automation, and robotics. The joint stand is being organized by Messe München in cooperation with MedtecLIVE, Europe’s leading trade fair for medical technology, as well as VDMA HealthTech and Bayern Innovativ.

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The trade fair’s supporting program will span topics that reflect a diverse field of applications for photonics. This will include guided tours and the “Photons in Production” special show, which will provide expert knowledge on all the applications of the technology. The Innovation Award will offer both companies and startups a stage for their innovations, and the career center will provide young talents with information on job prospects and career opportunities in the industry.

For more information and to register to attend LASER World of PHOTONICS, visit www.world-of-photonics.com/en/trade-fair.