“Too much effort and money is invested into military projects,” says Viacheslav Artyushenko, Founder and President of fibre optics supplier Art Photonics, “instead of products focused on our lives, including healthier food and better medicine".

Artyushenko is working on fibre photonics solutions for applications such as remote fibre spectroscopy for process-control in-line, medical diagnostics, mid-IR-fibre imaging, and the flexible delivery of laser power for laser medicine and technology.