On Monday, 2 Dec 2024, at 11:10 - 11:25 CET, Dr. Harald Pier, Automotive Lighting Expert at Focuslight, delivering an invited presentation at the Micro-Optics Summit & Expo, hosted by PHABULOuS in Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on the topic of “Why Microoptics is the Future of (Automotive) Lighting”.

Summary

Microlens Arrays have been the subject of intensive research in the automotive lighting community in the past years. This innovative technology has been adopted by multiple Tier 1 suppliers and become a candidate for the future standard solution. Harald is showing what trends support the introduction of micro-optics for specific lighting applications and why ultimately they will become a valuable solution for lighting companies.

Speaker

Dr. Harald Pier, Automotive Lighting Expert at Focuslight.

Harald has been part of the LED revolution in automotive and other lighting applications since its beginning. He has contributed to the development of the first full LED headlamps and supported many leading European lighting manufacturers in switching to LED based lighting solutions. Furthermore, he enabled the world's most compact lighting modules for rally cars, demonstrated sports field lighting with minimal light pollution and battery-powered lighting drones with record flight duration. At Focuslight, he is now pushing the limits of what can be achieved with microoptics in Automotive Lighting.