Invited Speakers

S&I 1: Light-matter Interactions and Materials Processing

• Javier Solis
  Instituto De Optica 'Daza De Valdes', Spain
  Functionalizing Glass by Local Compositional Tuning with Ultrafast Lasers
  
• Klaus Sokolowski-Tinten
  University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
  Non-equilibrium Structural Dynamics in Laser-driven Materials Studied with Time-resolved Diffraction
  
• Lene Oddershede
  The Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark
  Optical Manipulation, Heating and Bio-medical Applications of HOT Nanoparticles
  
• Richard Haglund Jr.
  Vanderbilt University, USA
  Picosecond Optical Switching in Silicon Photonics Using Phase-changing Vanadium Dioxide
  

S&I 2: Laser Systems and Facilities

• Hanieh Fattahi
  Max-Planck-Institut fur Quantenoptik, Germany
  Advanced Laser Technology for Attosecond and Femtosecond Spectroscopy
  
• Holger Schlarb
  DESY, Germany
  Precision Synchronization for Large Scale Accelerators
  
• Thomas Spinka
  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
  Laser Technologies for PW-Class Peak Power at Multi-kW Average Power
  

S&I 3: Semiconductor Lasers

• Åsa Haglund
  Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
  Blue and Ultraviolet Vertical-cavity Surface-emitting Lasers
  
• Benjamin Williams
  University of California Los Angeles, USA
  Terahertz Metasurface Quantum-cascade Lasers: Broadband and High-power Operation
  
• James Gupta
  National Research Council Canada, Canada
  Novel Interband Cascade Lasers for the Mid-Infrared
  
• Susumu Noda
  Kyoto University, Japan
  10 Watt-Class High-Power, High-Beam Quality Photonic-Crystal Lasers
  

S&I 4: Nonlinear Optical Technologies

• Crina Cojocaru
  Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
  Nonlinear Light Propagation in Crystals with Spatially Randomized Domains
  
• Irina Kabakova
  University of Technology Sydney, Australia
  Brillouin Microscopy for 3D Mechanical Mapping of Cells and Biomaterials
  
• Marko Loncar
  Harvard University, USA
  Integrated Lithium Niobate Photonics and Applications
  
• Peter Schunemann
  BAE Systems Inc, USA
  Quasi-phasematched Semiconductors for Nonlinear Optical Frequency Conversion
  
• Yoshitomo Okawachi
  Columbia University, USA
  Coherent Supercontinuum Generation in a Silicon Nitride Chip
  

S&I 5: Terahertz Science and Technology

• Aydin Babakhani
  UCLA , USA
  Laser-free Fully-electronic Picosesond Impulse Radiating Arrays for Precision Spectroscopy and Imaging
  
• Hyunyong Choi
  Yonsei University, South Korea
  Terahertz Spectroscopy of Dirac Plasmons: Graphene and Topological Insulators
  
• James Lloyd-Hughes
  University of Warwick, UK
  Hot Carrier Cooling in Tin- and Lead-based Metal Halide Perovskites
  
• Vedran Jelic
  University of Alberta, Canada
  Recent Advances in THz Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
  

S&I 6: Optical Materials, Fabrication and Characterization

• Barry Rand
  Princeton University, USA
  Efficient, Color Tunable, and Flexible Thin Film Perovskite Light Emitting Devices
  
• Isabelle Staude
  Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany
  Nonlinear and Tunable Semiconductor Metasurfaces
  
• Nanfang Yu
  Columbia University, USA
  Beating the Heat Via Radiative Cooling: Tales of the Saharan Silver Ants, Comet Moth Silk Fibers, and Butterfly Wings
  
• Oussama Moutanabbir
  Polytechnique Montreal, Canada
  Germanium-Tin Semiconductors for Silicon-Compatible Mid-Infrared Optoelectronics
  
• Thomas Murphy
  University of Maryland at College Park, USA
  Terahertz and Nonlinear Optics in Graphene
  

S&I 7: Micro- and Nano-Photonic Devices

• Di Liang
  Hewlett Packard Labs, UCSB, USA
  Integrated Versatile Quantum Dot-based Photonics on Silicon
  
• Femius Koenderink
  AMOLF, Netherlands
  Achieving Light-Matter Interaction at Microcavity Q yet Plasmonic Mode Volumes
  
• Joyce Poon
  University of Toronto, Canada
  New Concepts in Silicon Photonics: From Optical Communications to the Brain
  
• Marin Soljacic
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
  A Few Novel Effects in Plasmonics
  
• Mercedeh Khajavikhan
  University of Central Florida, CREOL, USA
  Topological Phenomena in Active Photonic Platforms
  
• Michael Watts
  Analog Photonics, USA
  Optical Phased Array LiDAR
  
• Peter Bienstman
  Ghent University, INTEC, Belgium
  Photonic Reservoir Computing in Silicon Photonics
  
• Rachel Grange
  ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  Beyond Metals and Semiconductors: Nano-Oxides for Nonlinear Photonic Devices
  
• Ruth Oulton
  University of Bristol, UK
  Quantum dot spins in Micropillar Cavities
  
• Yuichiro Kato
  RIKEN, Japan
  Single-carbon-nanotube Photonics and Optoelectronics
  

S&I 8: Ultrafast Optics, Optoelectronics and Applications

• Fabien Quéré
  CEA Saclay, France
  Controlling the Velocity of Ultrashort Laser Bursts in Vacuum
  
• Francesca Calegari
  Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, Germany
  Attosecond Tracking of Electron Dynamics in Large Molecules
  
• Jan Rothhardt
  Helmholtz Institute Jena, Germany
  High Performance Nanoscale Imaging with Table-top XUV Sources
  
• Maria Farsari
  IESL-FORTH, Greece
  Laser-based 3D Printing for Biomedical Applications
  
• Nicolas Forget
  FASTLITE Ultrafast Sci Instrumentation, France
  High-average-power Mid-infrared Sources for Spectroscopy and Strong-field Physics at 100 kHz
  

S&I 9: Photonic Integration

• Clint Schow
  University of California Santa Barbara, USA
  Low Power Analog Coherent Links for Next-Generation Datacenters
  
• Delphine Marris-Morini
  Universite de Paris-Sud, France
  Ge-rich SiGe photonic Circuits for Mid IR Spectroscopy
  
• Kei May Lau
  Hong Kong Univ of Science and Technology, USA
  III-V Lasers Emitting at 1.3 to 1.5 m grown on silicon by MOCVD
  
• Lan Yang
  Washington University in St Louis, USA
  Explore Whispering-gallery Resonators for a Versatile Sensor Platform
  
• Nicholas Harris
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
  Programmable Nanophotonics for Machine Learning Acceleration
  
• Xiaoyi Bao
  University of Ottawa, Canada
  Random Fiber Gratings and Applications
  

S&I 10: Biophotonics and Optofluidics

• Laura Marcu
  University of California Davis, USA
  Deciphering Bioengineered Tissues Functional Properties with Label-free Optical Techniques
  
• Yuhwa Lo
  University of California San Diego, USA
  Two-dimensional Image-guided Flow Cytometer and Cell Sorter
  

S&I 11: Fiber Photonics: Novel Phenomena, Lasers, Systems and Fabrication

• Angela Seddon
  University of Nottingham, UK
  Breaking Through the Wavelength Barrier: State-of-play on Rare-earth Mid-infrared Fiber Lasers at 4-9 um
  
• Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem
  University of Adelaide, Australia
  Novel concepts for sensing, imaging and mode generation in fibres using high-index glass 
  
• Natalie Wheeler
  University of Southampton, UK
  Low Loss Hollow Core Photonic Crystal Fibres: Fabrication to Applications
  
• Omer Tzang
  University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
  Controlling Nonlinearity in Multimode Fibers with Fast Real-time Wave-front Shaping 
  
• Qiang Zhang
  Univ of Science and Technology of China, China
  Device Independent Quantum Information Processing----from Bell Inequality to Fiber QKD
  
• Radan Slavik
  University of Southampton, UK
  Temperature Insensitive Fibers
  
• Shai Maayani
  MIT, USA
  Integrated Fibre Detection Architectures for Distributed Quantum Magnetometry
  
• Svetlana Aleshkina
  Fiber Optics Res. Ctr the RAS, RUSSIA
  Hybrid Fibres for Dispersion Management at 1 µ m
  
• Yasuyuki Ozeki
  University of Tokyo, Japan
  Functional Pulsed Fiber Lasers for Multicolor Stimulated Raman Scattering Microscopy
  

S&I 12: Lightwave Communications and Optical Networks

• Alexei Pilipetskii
  TE SubCom, USA
  Meeting Capacity Demand in Undersea Communications
  
• Gabriella Bosco
  Politecnico di Torino, Italy
  Modeling and Mitigation of Nonlinear Effects in Uncompensated Coherent Optical Transmission Systems
  
• Jose Capmany
  Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
  Programmable Integrated Photonics: Is it the right time for Field Programmable Arrays?
  
• Linda Thomas
  US Naval Research Laboratory, USA
  Free Space Optical Networks
  
• Michela Svaluto Moreolo
  Ctr Tecnològic de Telecom de Catalunya, Spain
  Programmable VCSEL-based Transceivers for Multi-terabit Capacity Networking
  
• Roland Ryf
  Nokia Bell Labs, USA
  Recent Advances in Mode-multiplexed Transmission over Multimode Fibers
  
• Victor Torres Company
  Chalmers Tekniska Hogskola, Sweden
  Coherent optical Communications with Microresonator Frequency Combs
  

S&I 13: Active Optical Sensing

• Jana Jagerska
  UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway
  Trace Gas Spectroscopy with Mid-Infrared Nanophotonic Waveguides
  
• Robert Candler
  University of California, Los Angeles, USA
  Microscale Magnetic Devices for Ultra-Compact Free Electron Lasers
  
• Xudong Fan
  University of Michigan, USA
  High-Performance Micro-Gas Chromatography and Optical Sensing
  

S&I 14: Optical Metrology

• Aleksandra Foltynowicz Matyba
  Umea University, Sweden
  Precision Fourier Transform Spectroscopy Using Optical Frequency Combs
  
• Erin Lamb
  OFS, USA
  Optical Frequency Measurements with a Silica Disk Microcomb
  
• Helen Margolis
  National Physical Laboratory, UK
  Optical Atomic Clocks: from International Timekeeping to Gravity Potential Measurement
  
• Yun Jhih Chen
  National Inst of Standards & Technology, USA
  Point Source Atom Interferometry for Inertial Navigation and Precision Measurements
  

S&I 15: Quantum and Atomic Sensors, and their Applications

• Ania Jayich
  UC Santa Barbara, USA
  Creating Highly Coherent NV Centers in Diamond
  
• Christian Degen
  ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  
  
• John Kitching
  NIST, USA
  Integrated Photonic-atomic Systems for Compact Precision Instrumentation
  
• Mark Kasevich
  Stanford, USA
  Tests of quantum mechancis and gravity using atom interferometry
  
• Morgan Mitchell
  ICFO, Spain
  Quantum Sensing with Interacting Atoms
  
• Tanja Mehlstäubler
  PTB Germany, Germany
  Ultrastable Optical Atomic Clocks for Geodesy
  

A&T 1: Biomedical Applications

• Abhishek Rege
  Vasoptic Medical Inc., USA
  Dynamic Measurement of Blood Flow Using Laser Speckle Contrast Imaging
  
• Alon Greenbaum
  University of California Los Angeles, USA
  Towards Anatomical Profiling of Intact Bones with Tissue Clearing, Custom Microscopy and Algorithms
  
• Anna-Karin Gustavsson
  Stanford University, USA
  Mapping Nanoscale Dynamics and Features Throughout Entire Mammalian Cells by 3D Single-Molecule Tracking and 3D Super-Resolution Imaging
  
• Daniel Razansky
  Technical University of Munich, Germany
  Optoacoustic Imaging Beyond the Diffraction Limit
  
• Hisataka Kobayashi
  National Institutes of Health, USA
  Near Infrared Photoimmunotherapy for Cancer
  
• Kaushal Solanki
  Eyenuk LLC, USA
  Autonomous Artificial Intelligence Eye Screening: Roles and Challenges in Retinal Imaging
  
• Paul Campagnola
  University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
  Polarization Resolved SHG Imaging of Ovarian Cancer
  
• Praveen Arany
  University at Buffalo, USA
  Non-linearity in Photobiomodulation Therapy Dosing - A Photoceutical Approach to a Quantum Biological Process?
  
• Scott Fraser
  University of Southern California, USA
  
  
• Thomas Klein
  Optores GmbH, Germany
  Multi-MHz OCT with FDML Lasers
  

A&T 2: Industrial Applications

• Jiyeon Choi
  Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials, South Korea
  Femtosecond Laser Based Manufacturing of Tailored Flexible Electronics for OLED and OPV Applications
  
• Kristian Cvecek
  Univ Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
  Glass Machining and In-situ Metrology
  
• Onur Tokel
  Bilkent Universitesi, Turkey
  A New Dimension in Silicon: "In-chip" Photonic Devices and 3D Micro-structures Enabled with Nonlinear Laser Lithography
  

A&T 3: Optical Instrumentation for Measurements and Monitoring

• Andrew Sappey
  Zolo Technologies, Inc., USA
  Diode Laser Spectroscopy for Optimization of Boilers and Furnaces
  
• David Moore
  Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
  Exploiting Coherence for Trace Explosives Detection
  
• Erik Novak
  4D Technology, USA
  Optical Systems for Industrial Shop Floor Surface Measurements To Improve Yield
  
• Esther Baumann
  National Inst of Standards & Technology, USA
  Imaging through Flames with Coherent Laser Ranging
  
• Jake Li
  Hamamatsu Corporation, USA
  Photonics Technology Challenges of Automotive LiDAR for Autonomous Vehicles/ADAS
  

A&T 4: Applications in Energy & Environment