We are pleased to announce and invite you to one of our weekly online zoom events.
 

Bridging the gap between optical design and optics manufacturing

To master your Optical Product, knowing the best polishing method is not good enough — it takes the best fabrication chain for prototyping and for serial production, considering about 350 technologies. 

Optical Design and Fabrication often operate in silos, leading to inefficiencies, miscommunications, and increased costs. How can we ensure that designs are not just theoretical perfection but also manufacturable realities? And how can we ensure that the tightest possible optical design tolerances are applied — enabled by the capabilities of the chosen fabrication chain?

This lunch chat will discuss how PanDao bridges this gap by enabling seamless communication between design engineers and fabrication engineers. By integrating producibility considerations early in the design phase, it ensures that optical systems are both optimized for manufacturing and take full advantage of fabrication capabilities. The result? Smarter designs, lower costs, and better-performing optics.


Speaker

Dr. Oliver Fähnle, CTO at Pandao
Oliver Faehnle (co-founder and co-owner) joined PanDao GmbH this February as full time technical director. Oliver is internationally renowned specialist in optical fabrication technologies, having received his Physik-Diplom 1993 from Heidelberg University, Germany, and made his PhD at the University of Delft, The Netherlands. He has been working and teaching in the optics industry for more than 30 years and is a senior member of OPTICA and SPIE, head of the Industrial Advisory Committee of the European Optical Society, and Executive Board member of Swissphotonics.
From 1993 he worked at TNO Institute of Applied Optics, Delft, The Netherlands, carrying out contract research. From 1999 he was working at FISBA company, St.Gallen, Switzerland, heading the optical fabrication technology group. Since 2020 he was heading the group for Photonics Systems Manufacturing at the university of Applied Sciences OST, Buchs, Switzerland, while lecturing optical fabrication technologies in Switzerland, USA, Japan, Germany and UK. Besides that he has been training kendo for more than 30 years increasing his awareness in life and technology.


Moderator

Dr. Christian Bosshard, Managing Director Swissphotonics
Dr. Christian Bosshard received his degree in Physics (1986) and his doctorate (1991, Silver medal award) from ETH. From 2001-2021 he was working at CSEM, first as Section Head and then as Vice President and Head Photonics. Since 2013 he is Managing Director of Swissphotonics. Christian is a Fellow of Optica, Board Member of EPIC, and Member of the Board of the University of Basel.

Date
Tuesday, 18 March 2025

Time
12:00 - 12:45

Software
Zoom

Costs
free of charge

Registration only necessary once
This event series requires registration (see link above). We will send you the access information (Zoom-link and ID) by email after the registration. As the Zoom link remains the same every week, you do not need to register again for the following meetings.

Contact Pandao
Dr. Oliver Fähnle
CTO at Pandao

Contact Swissphotonics
Dr. Christian Bosshard
Managing Director Swissphotonics
+41 79 405 1826

6 March 2025, Christian Bosshard