Student Paper Competition

The papers submitted to the competition were reviewed during the standard Technical Program Committee (TPC) review process, which resulted in 24 finalists being selected. After the papers are presented at the meeting, the Program Committee members will select winners based on content quality, value to the technical community of interest and the student's presentation skills.

Congratulations to the Finalists!

Bragg Gratings, Photosensitivity and Poling in Optical Materials and Waveguides (BGPP)

Alexis Tryoen, CNRS, France (BM4A.3)
Mid-Infrared Waveguide Fabrication in Heavy Oxide Germanate Glass via Femtosecond Laser Direct Writing

Chao He, CNRS, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China (BW1A.2)
1700 °C-Stable Single-Mode Sapphire Fiber Sensor Using Helical Waveguide and Ring Bragg Grating

Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon and Nanophotonics (IPR)

Alexis Tryoen, CNRS, France (ITh2B.3)
Towards a Compact Hyperspectral Camera based on Femtosecond-Laser-Written 3D Waveguides

Gregory Sercel, University of California, Los Angeles, United States (IW1B.2)
Demystifying the independence of dual-comb interferometry on carrier-envelope offset noise

Gervasio D'anzieri, C2N-CRNS, France (IW4B.3)
Vertically Coupled Antenna for the Development of Large-Area, Dense Optical Phased Arrays

Simon Bongarz, Stanford University, United States (IW4B.4)
High-Efficiency Normal-Incidence Dual-Etch Silicon Nitride Grating Couplers at 780 nm

Nonlinear Photonics (NP)

​Yingchu Xu, California Institute of Technology, United States (NpW1E.4)
Quadratic Nonlinear Interferometer for Ultrafast Laser Mode-Locking in Nanophotonic Lithium Niobate

Suraya Kazi, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden (NpW4E.4)
Dynamic Coupling between an Epsilon-Near-Zero Thin Film and Conducting Polymer Nanoantennas

Novel Optical Materials and Applications (NOMA)

Mariia Stepanova, University of California, Irvine, United States (NoM4D.5)
Tuning Phonon Polaritons in van der Waals Crystals via Elemental Metal Intercalation

Wei Zhang, Baylor University, United States (NoW1D.4)
Transmission Study of Positive and Negative Cone and Pyramid Moth-Eye Structures

Mehmet Kepenecki, University of Austin, United States (NoW1D.3)
Effect of Pillar Geometry on Optical and Mechanical Properties of Sapphire Subwavelength Nanopillar Arrays

Shadman Shahid, University of Southern California, United States (NoM4D.4)
Design of High Sensitivity Tunable Bowtie Metasurface in the Mid-IR with BaTiO3

Photonic Networks and Devices (Networks)

Imran Chowdhury, Politecnico di Torino, Italy (NeTu1C.3)
LLM-Assisted Digital Twin for Next Generation Optical Network-as-a-Service (ONaaS)

Signal Processing in Photonic Communications (SPPCom)

Meredith Caveney, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States (SpM3G.3)
Event Signatures for Polarization Sensing in Commercial Coherent Transceivers

Erdem Cil, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Germany (SpTh1F.3)
Ultra-Low-Rate Information Reconciliation: Repetition Coding or Dedicated Codes?

Jhon Granada Torres, Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia (SpM4G.3)
OSNR and Spectral Spacing Estimation in Gridless WDM Systems Based on IQ Histograms and Kernel Density Estimation

Solar, Lighting and Thermal Photonics (SOLITH)

Daehyun Kim, University of California, Los Angeles, United States (SW3F.2)
Radiative Thermal Constraints on the Optimal Absorption Band of Space-Based Photovoltaics

Mason Christiansen, University of California, Los Angeles, United States (STu2E.3)
Nonreciprocal Magneto-Optic Beam Steering of Thermal Emission

Daniel Cui, University of California, Los Angeles, United States  (STu1G.1)
Perturbation theory for non-reciprocal thermal emission at low magnetic fields

Mathis Degeorges, Princeton University, United States  (STh2F.2)
The Role of Insulation and Convection Shields for Subambient Cooling

Daniel Katz, University of California, Los Angeles, United States (JTh1C.3)
Designing Efficient Solution-Processed CsPbBr3 Perovskite Luminescent Solar Concentrators with Enhanced Photon Trapping

Specialty Optical Fibers (SOF)

Amelia Ford, Optoelectronics Research Centre, United Kingdom  (SoTh2E.1)
Brazed Fiber-in-Metal Architecture for Multiaxial Strain Monitoring

Takumi Kimura, Hokkaido University, Japan  (STh2E.4)
Compact and Low-Insertion-Loss Mode-Selective LPFG-Based MDL Equalizer for 2-LP Transmission with Modulation-Radius Optimization

Szymon Matczak, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland  (SoM2F.4)
Compact Lens-Free Excitation of Ta2O5 Waveguides for Broadband Supercontinuum Generation