Invited Speakers
A curated lineup across Applications & Technology, Fundamental Science, and Science & Innovations. Explore sessions and invited talks below.
Applications & Technology
Biomedical Application
Applications & Technology
Computational Imaging and AI for Pathology Prognostic Analysis
Optical Coherence Tomography/Elastography and Brillouin Spectroscopy for Tissue Biomechanics
Optical Technologies To Quantify and Improve Eye’s Structure and Optics
Metasurfaces for Lensless Neuron Localization and Neuromorphic Computing
Hyperspectral Dual-Comb Compressive Ghost Imaging for Endomicroscopic Applications
The Language of Light; The Logic of Industry
Chip-Integrated Far-UVC Light Sources for Safe and Efficient Pathogen Inactivation
Illuminating Biological Function: De-novo Protein Sequencing with Nanophotonics
Aggregation-Induced Emission of DNA as a Pan Marker of Cell Death, Aging, and Sepsis.
Laser-Based Manufacturing, Machining and Nanoprinting
Applications & Technology
Automated Control of Laser-Induced Melt Dynamics in Single Crystal Fiber Fabrication
Optical Instrumentation for Measurements and Monitoring
Applications & Technology
Multimodal fiber optic sensing
Fast-Tuning Lasers and Rapid Wavelength Measurements in Silicon Photonics
Environmental Sensing Applications of Optical Measurements and Instrumentation
Applications & Technology
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Advancing Snow Monitoring from Space with Lidar Active Sensing and Passive Imagery: ICESat-2, AMSR-2, LandSat and PACE
Atmospheric Monitoring with Ground and Airborne Open-Path Dual-Comb Spectroscopy
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Laser Doppler vibrometry for remote seismic sensing
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Quantum Technology in Transition
Applications & Technology
Q4S: Entanglement swapping for deployment in low-Earth orbit
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Fiber Laser Systems for the Industrialization of Quantum
Engineering Quantum
Spin-polarized atomic sensors for rapid transitions and rugged applications
Integrated photonics for scalable trapped ion quantum computing
Precision Optical Timing from Rooftops to Mountaintops
Advances in Semiconductor Technology
Applications & Technology
Scaling Atmospheric Wireless Optical Communication via Integrated Photonic Solutions
Scaling Lasers to Support High Bandwidth Silicon Photonics
Full Photonic THz Wireless Links Enabled by Waveguide-Integrated Photomixers
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The Al2O3 Platform as Enabler for UV Applications
Integrated Germanium-Silicon Single-Photon Receiver for Quantum and Bio Photonics Applications
Open Market Heterogeneous III-V/Si PDK for High-Speed Optical Interconnects and LiDAR
Wavelength Scaling of Electrically Injected Deep-Ultraviolet Laser Diodes
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Fundamental Science
Quantum Optics of Atoms, Molecules and Solids
Fundamental Science
Quantum Machine Learning via Integrated Quantum Photonics
Nanophotonic Trapping and Strong Light-Matter Coupling with Dielectric Nanocavities
Quantum Sensing with 2D Spin Defects in High-Field Environments
Quantum Information and Communication
Fundamental Science
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Quantum Photonics
Fundamental Science
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Optical Excitations and Ultrafast Phenomena in Condensed Matter
Fundamental Science
Precision optical spectroscopy of van der Waals magnets in and out of equilibrium
Multidimensional Spectroscopies of Quantum Materials
Cavity electrodynamics of vdW heterostructures
Nonlinear Optics and Novel Phenomena
Fundamental Science
Frustrated Non-Hermitian Skin Effect and Gauge-Invariant Ladder Operators in Floquet Systems
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Quantum sensing using entangled photons
Nano-Optics and Plasmonics
Fundamental Science
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Ultrafast Science of Attosecond, X-Ray Free-Electron-Laser and Ultra-Intense Light
Fundamental Science
Probing Extreme Plasma States with Ultrafast X-Rays
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Mapping Ultrafast Reaction Dynamics of Condensed-Phase Complex Molecules through Vibrational Coherence
Metamaterials and Complex Media
Fundamental Science
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Experimental Realization of Photonic Time-Crystals in Microwaves
Science & Innovations
Light-Matter Interactions and Materials Processing
Science & Innovations
Laser Processing of Functional Micro/Nanostructures for Photonics, Optoelectronics, and Smart Surfaces
Ultrahigh-Speed Laser Processing of Transparent Materials Through Transient Electronic Excitation
Light-Matter Interactions and Processing with Special Emphasis on LIPSS Formation
Laser-Assisted Atomic-Layer Processing and In-operando Diagnostics of Functional Materials
Laser Systems and Facilities
Science & Innovations
Development, Demonstration and Applications of a 10 J, 100 Hz Diode-Pumped Solid State Laser.
GHz Dual-Comb Mode-Locked Sources as a Powerful Remote Sensing Platform
Advanced High-Power Ultrafast Laser Sources at 2.1 μm
Semiconductor Lasers
Science & Innovations
Single-quantum-dot devices for photonic quantum technologies: Design, deterministic nanofabrication, and application perspectives
Integrated semiconductor lasers at < 1000 nm wavelength
Boosting integrated laser performance with SiN and LN photonic circuits
Perspectives on Heterogeneous Laser Integration in Silicon Photonics
Nonlinear Optical Technologies
Science & Innovations
Symmetry-broken dissipative structures in two-component Kerr resonators
Dynamic image processing with nonlinear metasurfaces
Integrated Photonics and Nonlinear Optics with Microresonators
Integrated Thin-Film Lithium Niobate for Ultrafast and Quantum Photonic Systems
Revisiting Optical Nonlinearities Using Structured Light
Power scaling and output control of multimode fiber amplifiers via wavefront shaping
Terahertz Science and Technology
Science & Innovations
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Optical Materials, Fabrication and Characterization
Science & Innovations
Barium Titanate Integrated Photonics
High-Performance Microcomb Generation
Integrated Cavity Optomechanical Magnetometry
Integrated Acousto-Optics in Scandium Aluminum Nitride Thin Films
Photonic Chip Frequency Combs: Technologies and Applications
Integrated GeSn Lasers and 2D Quantum Emitters for Photonic-Integrated Circuits
Ferroelectrics for Emergent Silicon-Integrated Optical Computing
Micro- and Nano-Photonic Devices
Science & Innovations
Arbitrarily Tunable Optical Nonlinearity via Lattice Stacking and Quantum Applications
Magneto-optic materials beyond optical isolation
High-speed and high-efficiency slow light modulators and transmitters
On-chip chalcogenide glass ultra-high-Q resonators, low-loss waveguides, and their applications
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Quantum-optical computing with Kerr solitons
Scalable VIS-NIR Photonic Integrated Circuits: From Platform Development to Broadband Applications
III-V membrane devices on SOI for integrated photonics
Thin Film Lithium Niobate for Interferometric Fiber Optic Gyroscopes
Metasurface Devices for High-Speed Optical Communication and Mode Manipulation
Erbium Compound Nanomaterials for On-Chip Optoelectronics
Multiport programmable nanophotonics using phase change materials
Squeezed quantum microcombs with integrated photonics.
Ultrafast Optics and Applications
Science & Innovations
High-power ultrafast nonlinear optical systems for the next generation user facilities
Temporal characterization of laser pulses using tunneling ionization with an ultrahigh dynamic range
Programmable spatiotemporal OAM optical toroidal beams with completely tunable properties
Demonstration of a 100 mJ-class MIR sub-cycle laser for nonlinear attosecond science
Characterization of tunable few-cycle pulses in the UV
Active Integrated Photonics in the Mid-Infrared
Ultrafast Molecular Dynamics Using Femtosecond and Attosecond X-ray FELs
Photonic Integration
Science & Innovations
Steering Light with Sound: Integrated Acousto-Optic Systems
Recent Progress on III–V/Si Heterogeneous Integration for High-Speed Optical Communications
III–V Nano-Ridge Lasers Integrated on Silicon: Novel Cavity Concepts
Tantalum Pentoxide: A Flexible Material Platform for Nonlinear Integrated Photonics
Fully-laser Integrated Entangled Photon-Pair Source with Emission and Bandwidth Control
Accelerating Integrated Photonics with Thin-Film Lithium Niobate
Cold Atom-Nanophotonics Integration - New Opportunities and Applications
Integrated Optical Phased Arrays for AR Displays, Biophotonics, Trapped Ions, and Beyond
Heterogeneously Integrated Membrane Photonic Devices on Si Photonics Platform
Novel Photonic Integration Techniques Towards Femtosecond Lasers On-Chip
Emerging Opportunities in Integrated Photonics with Lithium Tantalate
Achieving Low Loss Coupling Efficiency in a Packaged Photonic Chip
Photonic Computing
Science & Innovations
Optical Generative Models
Model-free Training of Laser and Spiking Photonic Neural Networks
Reservoir computing with photonic systems: Exploiting dynamical complexity of quantum dots and laser neurons
Photonic Online Learning
Intelligent Photonic Computing Via Light Diffraction
Quantum Computational Machine Vision
Fiber Photonics: Novel Phenomena, Lasers, Systems and Fabrication
Science & Innovations
3D Printing of Fused Silica Preforms for Microstructured Fibers
Terahertz Polymer Fibers for Future High Speed Communication Links
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Spatio-temporal thermalization and its inhibition mediated by phase-correlations.
Multicore Fibers: The Power of Many
Digital Twin for Assessing Structural Integrity Using Fiber-Optic Sensors in Marine and Civil Engineering Applications
Towards power scaling of erbium doped fiber lasers via nanoparticle suspension doping
Nd-doped fiber lasers for emerging applications.
Lightwave Communications and Optical Networks
Science & Innovations
Impairment Mitigation Techniques Enabling Long-Haul High-Capacity Space Division Multiplexing Transmission
Adaptive TPE for Optically-Interconnected AI Clusters
Toward Beyond 400-Gbps/lane IMDD Transceiver
High-Speed and Robust Optical Wireless Communication Systems: Digital Signal Processing and Application Scenarios
Integrated Microwave Photonic Signal Processing and Sensing
Active Optical Sensing
Science & Innovations
Dual Comb Spectroscopy for Environmental Sensing
Mid-IR-OPO Sensing Applications: Exploring Reaction Kinetics from the Gas Phase to the Interface
Advances in Optical Spectroscopic tools for Isotopic Analysis of Hydrogen and Lithium in Nuclear Applications
Optical Metrology
Science & Innovations
Free-Space Optical Time Transfer for Tests of the Gravitational Redshift
Astrophotonics with Ti:Sapphire Based Frequency Combs
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Advances in Precision Frequency Metrology with Optical Frequency Combs
Quantum and Atomic Devices and Instrumentation
Science & Innovations
Silicon Carbide Quantum Photonic Circuits with Integrated Coherent Spins Qubits
Quantum computing enhanced optical imaging
Scalable Photonic Integrated Circuits for Multi-Wavelength, High-Extinction Control of Neutral-Atom Quantum Computing
Modular Ion Chain Architecture for Quantum Computing and Simulation
