Invited Speakers (A&T, FS, S&I)
Plus: Tutorial Speakers
CLEO
Evolving Excellence: Conference on Laser and Electro-Optics
Invited Speakers
Applications & Technology
Jiajie Chen
Shenzhen University
China
“Optothermal tweezers: Biomolecule manipulation and sensing”
John Haung
UT Southwestern Medical School, Department of Bioinformatics
USA
“COMPASS: Open Source, High Numerical Aperture Light-Sheet Fluorescence Microscopes”
Kyle Preston
SiPhox Health
USA
“Bleeding-Edge Silicon Photonics: Advancements in Chip-Based Biomarker Testing”
Alba Alfonso
Garcia University of California, Davis
USA
“Fluorescence lifetime imaging for disease detection and surgical guidance”
Alba Alfonso
Garcia University of California, Davis
USA
“Fluorescence lifetime imaging for disease detection and surgical guidance”
Nicole Brimhall
Oblate Optics, Inc
USA
Flat Optics for Precise Focus Shaping
Alexander Fuerbach
Faculty of Science and Engineering, Macquarie University
Sydney Australia
Femtosecond laser written components for mid-infrared photonics
Yu Takiguchi
Kamamatsu Photonics K.K.
“Liquid crystal spatial light modulator development for high power laser application.”
Nate Phillips
Vescent
USA
“Frequency stabilized lasers and combs for today’s next-generation field-deployable quantum sensors”
Joshua Yang
Brightlight Photonics
USA
“Titanium:sapphire-on-insulator photonics for integrated lasers and amplifiers”
Yong Men Sua
1. Quantum Computing Inc.
2. Stevens Institute of Technology
USA
“Quantum-Inspired Single-Photon Lidars For Environmental Remote Sensing”
Thierry Baron
Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, CEA/LETI-Minatec, Grenoble INP
France
Monolithic growth of III-As compounds on silicon for enhanced IR photonic and optoelectronic devices
Baile Chen
Shanghaitech University
China
“Single-pixel p-graded-n junction spectrometers based on III-V semiconductor”
Timo Aalto
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd.
Finland
“Chip-scale solutions for broadband spectroscopic sensing and imaging”
Knut Rurack
Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM)
Germany
Fluorescence-Based Microfluidic Assays for Rapid PFAA Detection in the Field
Judith Su
University of Arizona
USA
“Recent advances on ultra-sensitive, selective, and label-free optical sensing for fundamental science, environmental monitoring, and translational medicine”
Milan Begliarbekov
Quantum Computing Inc.
USA
Thin Film Lithium Niobate Photonic Integrated Circuits
Krish Kotru
Atom Computing
USA
“Building error-corrected quantum computers with neutral atom qubits
Mehdi Namazi
Qunnect Inc
USA
The path towards field deployable quantum repeaters
Christian Reimer
HyperLight Corp.
USA
Integrated Photonics in Thin-Film Lithium Niobate
Sara Gamble
US Army Research Laboratory – Army Research Office
USA
“Quantum Information Science and the Department of Defense.”
Lihong Wang
California Institute of Technology
USA
Quantum imaging with super-resolution beyond the optical diffraction limit
John Bowers
Institute of Energy Efficiency
USA
Progress and Challenges in Heteroepitaxial Laser Integration in SIlicon Photonic Integrated Circuits
Yusheng Bian
GlobalFoundries
USA
High-performance and versatile optical I/O solutions on a 300-mm monolithic CMOS-SiPh platform
Takuya Inoue
Kyoto University
Japan
Photonic-crystal surface-emitting lasers for short-pulse and high-speed applications
Clint Schow
UCSB
USA
Mixed-Domain Coherent Links for Datacenters and AI Clusters.
Dr.-Ing. Roman Koerner
CTO TRUMPF Photonic Components
Germany
“Next Generation VCSEL Chips for AI Datacenters”
Fundamental Science
Prof. Ryosuke Shimizu
The University of Electro-Communications
Japan
“Fourier synthesis and ultrafast detection of time-frequency entangled photons”
Zheshen Zhang
University of Michigan
USA
“Quantum sensing enhanced by local and distributed entanglement”
Anne Curtis
National Physical Laboratory
UK
“Optical atomic clocks: frequency metrology and fundamental physics”
Rahul Trivedi
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
Germany
Quantum enhanced spectroscopy with multi-emitter quantum photonics.
Olivier Pfister
University of Virginia
USA
“Building a quantum optical simulator of quantum field theory”
Xiongfeng Ma
Tsinghua University
China
Implementation of Quantum Networks with Untrusted Relays
Xinghui Yin
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
USA
Precision beyond the standard quantum limit
Aziza Suleymanzade
Harvard University
USA
Distributed quantum networks with solid state defects in diamond nanocavities
Kartik Srinivasan
National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland
USA
‘Chip-scale lasers and frequency combs based on wideband nonlinear integrated photonics’
Alp Sipahigil
UC Berkeley and LBNL
USA
Spin-photon interfaces in silicon photonics
Michael Zuerch
College of Chemistry University of California, Berkeley
USA
Probing Density-Wave Order and Excitonic Correlations with Attosecond Core-Level XUV Spectroscopy
Peter Baum
University Konstanz
Germany
Attosecond electron microscopy and chiral phonons in magnetic materials
Aaron Lindenberg
Stanford University / SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
USA
Non-perturbative ultrafast excitations in materials via non-resonant drives
Nuh Gedik
MIT
USA
Terahertz field induced metastable magnetization in a van der Waals antiferromagnet
Andrea Blanco Redondo
CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida
USA
“Programmable integrated topological photonics”
Sara Ducci
Université Paris Cité
France
TBD
Ulf Peschel
Friedrich-Schiller -University Jena
Germany
Quantum walks and nonlinearity in temporal photonic lattices
Georg von Freymann
Department of Physics, RPTU University of Kaiserslautern-Landau
Germany
Terahertz Quantum Sensing
Iacopo Carusotto
Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, CNR-INO
Italy
From nonlinear optics in multimode waveguides to three-dimensional fluids of light’
Marin Soljacic
MIT
USA
Nanophotonics for Tailoring Radiation from Fast Electrons
Liang Feng
University of Pennsylvania
USA
Beyond Lasers: Harnessing Optical Gain to Revolutionize Information Processing
David Busto
Lund University
Sweden
Ion-photoelectron entanglement in ultrafast photoelectron interferometry.
Alvaro Jimenez Galan
Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (ICMM-CSIC)
Spain
Ultrafast valley manipulation in 2D materials
Laura Cattaneo
Max Planck for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg
Germany
High Harmonic Generation in Thermotropic Liquid Crystals
Andrea Alu
City University of New York
USA
“Thermal metasurfaces”
Aaswath Raman
University of California, Los Angeles
USA
“Thermal photonics: Nonreciprocal, directional control of thermal emission and emerging applications”
Nader Engheta
University of Pennsylvania
USA
Structuring Light with Metamaterials and Metasurfaces
Evelyn Hu
Harvard University, John A Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS)
USA
Electrical Control of Color Centers in Silicon: Towards Probing Single Defect Emission
Science & Innovations
Mitsuhiro Terakawa
Keio University
Japan
Harnessing Femtosecond Laser Processing for Maximizing the Functional Potential of Soft Materials
Rosalia Serna
Instituto de Optica, CSIC
Spain
Laser Synthesis of Sustainable Nano- and Metastructures for Photonics.
Nathalie Destouches
University Jean Monnet, Laboratoire Hubert Curien
France
Understanding and Exploiting Plasmonic-Photonic Hybridization in Laser-Induced Quasi-Random Plasmonic Metasurfaces
Hanna Ostapenko
Heriot-Watt University
UK
Towards diode-pumped GHz Ti:sapphire lasers for practical applications
Sten Wenzel
Ferdinand-Braun-Institut (FBH)
Germany
Monolithic Integration of Extended Cavity Diode Lasers
Chen Shang
University of California Santa Barbara
USA
Toward a scalable single photon platform
Johannes Koeth
nanoplus GmbH
Germany
Semiconductor lasers for advanced sensing applications
Maciej Pieczarka
Wroclaw University of Science and Technology
Poland
Bose–Einstein condensation of photons in a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser
Sonia M. Garcia Blanco
University of Twente
The Netherlands
Erbium doped amplifiers in the aluminium oxide platform.
Jeffrey Moses
School of Applied & Engineering Physics, Cornell University
USA
“The Adiabatic Frequency Converter: Single-Cycle Pulse Generation with Custom Dispersion”
John F. Donegan
School of Physics, CRANN, AMBER and CONNECT, Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Soliton formation in dual-mode microresonators
Mohsen Rahmani
Advanced Optics and Photonics Laboratory, Department of Engineering, School of Science & Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham NG11 8NS, UK
UK
Individual silicon nano-resonators to silicon metasurfaces: ideal platforms for nonlinear infrared imaging via four-wave mixing
Carlos Alonso-Ramos
Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies
France
Exploring nonlinear phenomena in silicon nanostructures
Hou-Tong Chen
Los Alamos National Laboratory
USA
Ultrafast Terahertz Radiation from Light-Driven Nanoscale Vectorial Currents
Lucia Di Virgilio
Max Planck for Polymer Research Germany Tuning the Electro-Optic Properties of a Semiconducting Perovskite via Phonon-Resonant Cavity Coupling
Sukhdeep Dhillon
CNRS/Physics Laboratory of the Ecole Normale Supérieure
France
Two Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides for THz photonics
Vincent P Wallace
Department of Physics, the University of Western Australia
Australia
Applications of Terahertz Technology, from Biomolecules to Biomaterials
Anu Agarwal
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
USA
FUTUR-IC: Building a Sustainable Microchip Industry Supply Chain – Manufacturing and Operation
Weibo Gao
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
Recent progress of quantum light sources with 2D materials
Kyoungsik Yu
KAIST
Republic of Korea
Programmable integrated photonics for large-scale low-power optical signal processing
Dan Congreve
Stanford University
USA
Applications of Photon Upconversion’
Linda Molnar
National Science Foundation
USA
NSF Convergence Accelerator Track I: Sustainable Materials for Global Challenges
Subtitle: Accelerating the Translation of Fundamental Materials Science for Applications in the Semiconductor Industry
Minjia Chen
University of Cambridge
UK
“Integrated photonic iterative processor for I/O-efficient computing”
Carlos Errando Herranz
Delft University of Technology
The Netherlands
“Color centers in silicon photonics for quantum information processing”
Cheng Wang
City University of Hong Kong
China
“Integrated lithium niobate microwave and millimeter wave photonics”
Daniil Lukin
Harvard University
USA
“Integrated Sapphire Photonics”
Su-Hyun Kora University South
Korea
“2D nanophotonics based on multilayered van der Waals semiconductors”
Francesco Lenzini
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie (CNR-IFN)
Italy
“Thin-film lithium niobate waveguides for integrated photonic quantum technologies”
Yuan Yuan
Northeastern University
USA
“Germanium-Free Avalanche Photodiodes for High-Speed Interconnects.”
John Travers
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
UK
“Soliton-driven sources of few and sub-femtosecond pulses in the visible to far-ultraviolet”
Tim Vogel
Ruhr-University Bochum
Germany
“High power, high repetition rate THz generation”
Mitsuru Takenaka
The University of Tokyo
Japan
Heterogeneous integration for programmable photonic integrated circuits
Leonardo Midolo
Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
Denmark
Quantum key distribution with quantum dot single-photon sources
Raphaël Van Laer
Chalmers University of Technology
Sweden
Towards release-free piezo-optomechanical quantum transducers
Delphine Marris-Morini
Université Paris Saclay
France
Graded index Silicon Germanium photonics circuits in the mid-infrared range
Hao Hu
Technical University of Denmark
Denmark
Integrated optical phased array with a large field of view for LiDAR
Karl Muth
Broadcom
USA
Co-packaged and Linear Optics for AI Networks
Thomas Bocklitz
Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology
Germany
Utilizing the interplay between photonics and AI to improve the knowledge extraction from photonic data
Pere Pérez-Millán
FYLA LASER SL
Spain
New designs of supercontinuum sources for biosciences applications
Armando Ricciardi
University of Sannio
Italy
Fiber-optic smart needles
Nathalie Wheeler
Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton
UK
Gas Composition and Pressure in Hollow Core Optical Fibres: Why is it important and how can we control it?
Alexander Heidt
University of Bern
Switzerland
“Shaping the nonlinearity of silica fibers with nanoparticles”
Douglas Stone
Yale University, Dept of Applied Physics
USA
Controlling nonlinearities in multimode fiber amplifiers via wavefront shaping
Nicolas Englebert
Caltech
US
Temporal solitons in fiber resonators
Riccardo Pennetta
Humboldt Berlin
Germany
Collective radiative dynamics of nanofibre-coupled atomic ensembles
John Ballato
Clemson University
US
The past, present, and future of silica: the once and future king
Gabriella Gardosi
Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies
UK
PicoSNAP: Toward picometre-precise fabrication of WGM microresonators and their Applications
Chiara Lasagni
University of Parma
Italy
Modeling of nonlinear transmission in SDM fibers
Vitaly Mikhailov
OFS Labs
USA
Doped Fiber Amplifiers for O band short reach transmission
Pamir Oezsuna
Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, HHI, Einsteinufer 37, 10587 Berlin, Germany, Institute of Electrical and Optical Communications, University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 47, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
Germany
“Blind MIMO Digital Signal Processing for Space Division Multiplexing”
Alix May
Microsoft
France
Fiber-longitudinal power profile monitoring for optical network monitoring
Eric Sillekens
UCL
UK
Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers in Ultra-Wideband Systems
Pei-Ling Luo
Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica
Taiwan
“A new approach to kinetic study and detection of short-lived intermediates with mid-infrared time-resolved dual-comb spectroscopy”
Scott Burroughs Uviquity, Inc.
USA
“Extending Photonic Integration into the Far UVC”
Charles McLemore
National Institute of Standards and Technology
USA
Advances in ultrastable optical cavities for portable applications
Ryan K. Cole
Bates College
USA
“Precision Spectroscopy of Sunlight with a Frequency Comb-calibrated Laser Heterodyne Radiometer”
Esther Baumann
NIST
USA
“Leveraging free-form dual comb technique for compressive sensing, hyperspectral imaging and muscle health analysis”
Young-Jin KIM
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
South Korea
“Frequency-comb-referenced multi-scale dimensional metrology: from picometers to kilometers”
Akira Ozawa
Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics
Germany
“Extreme Ultraviolet Optical Frequency Combs and Applications”
Quntao Zhuang
University of Southern California
USA
“Quantum noise sensing: fundamental limits, protocol designs and application in quantum transduction”)
Gregor Pieplow
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Germany
“Exploring Time-Resolved Materials Science at the Atomic Lattice Level”
Atsushi Noguchi
The University of Tokyo
Japan
“Hybrid quantum technologies with high-performance superconducting circuits”
Elena Jordan
PTB (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt)
Germany
“Photonik integrated chips for quantum metrology”
Tutorial Speakers
Hyunseok Jeong
Seoul National University
Republic of Korea
“Quantum information with discrete and continuous variables”
University of New Mexico
USA
TBD
Alexandra Boltasseva
Purdue University
USA
“Machine-Learning-Assisted Photonics: From Inverse Design to Quantum Emitter Characterization and Imaging”
Jigang Wang
Iowa State
USA
TBD
Marin Soljacic
MIT
USA
TBD
Mercedeh Khajavikhan
USC
USA
TBD
Shambhu Ghimire
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University
USA
“High-oder harmonic generation from atoms, molecules, and condensed matter”
Federico Capasso
John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University
USA ”
Multifunctional Metaoptics”
Francois Courvoisier
University of Franche-Comte and CNRS
France
“High-Resolution Ultrafast Laser Nanoprocessing in Dielectrics”
Yasuo Nabekawa
Attosecond Science Research Team, RIKEN center for Advanced Photonics (RAP)
Japan
“Nonlinear XUV optics using high-order harmonic pulses: Another aspect of attosecond science”
Susumu Noda
Kyoto University
Japan
“High-brightness and high-functionality photonic-crystal surface-emitting lasers (PCSELs): a tutorial”
Frank Wise
School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
USA
“Management and Exploitation of Nonlinearity in New Fiber Sources of Femtosecond Pulses”
Elsa Abreu
ETH Zürich, Institute for Quantum Electronics
Switzerland
Time-resolved THz studies of quantum materials
Igor Aharonovich
University of Technology
Sydney Australia
“Quantum Emitters in atomically thin materials – from fundamental discoveries to practical applications”
Joyce Poon
University of Toronto and Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics
Canada
TBD
Michelle Sander
Boston University
USA
TBD
Nanoscience Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Trento
Italy
“Photonic computing with integrated microring resonator arrays”
Dario Polli
Politecnico di Milano
Italy
“Coherent Raman Scattering Microscopy for Biological Applications”
Anna Peacock
Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton
UK
“Recent advances in silicon core optical fibres: from fabrication to applications”
Bill Corcoran
COMBS, Monash University
Australia
“Microcombs for Optical Communications”
Dylan Yost
Colorado State University
USA
TBD
Uwe Sterr
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt
Germany
“Ultrastable Optical Cavities – Designs, Applications and Challenges”
