A team from Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) with a record number of contributions – four oral talks, three postres, several other contributions co-authored with our reserch collaborators – presented recent scientific results at the World of Photonics congress CLEO Europe 2019 in Munich, which took place from May 23rd to 27th. The conributions covered most of the core topics of ORC, namely laser diodes, vertically-emmitting lasers (VECSELs, MECSELs) and their applications as well as superluminescent diodes, all together in a wide variety of emission wavelengths.