Bragg Gratings, Photosensitivity and Poling in Optical Materials and Waveguides (BGPP)
Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon and Nanophotonics (IPR)
Nonlinear Photonics (NP)
Novel Optical Materials and Applications (NOMA)
Photonic Networks and Devices (Networks)
Signal Processing in Photonic Communications (SPPCom)
Solar, Lighting and Thermal Photonics (SOLITH)
Specialty Optical Fibers (SOF)

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

• Sergey Babin, Institute of Automation and Electrometry, 
  Femtosecond-laser Inscribed FBG Arrays in Multimode and Multicore Fibers and Their Laser and Sensor Applications
• Chun-Wei Chen, University of Bath, United Kingdom
  Athermal Single Frequency Fibre Amplifiers
• Benjamin Crockett, University of British Columbia, Canada
  Applications of Bragg-based Phase Filters for Photonic Signal Processing of Quantum and Classical Signals
• Julian Fells, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
  Femtosecond-laser Fabricated FBG Sensors in Both Silica and Sapphire Fibre
• Christopher Holmes, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
  Bragg Gratings Beyond Round Fibre
• Yunqi Liu, Shanghai University, China
  Title to be Announced
• Alexandre Mermillod-Blondin, Max-Born Institut, Germany
  Strong Field Photoinscription in Solid Dielectrics with Few-cycle Pulses
• Stavros Pissadakis, FORTH-IESL, Greece
  Title to be Announced
• Jie Qiao, Rochester Institute of Technology, United States
  Title to be Announced
• Xuewen Shu, Huazhong Univ of Science and Technology, China
  In-fiber Microstructures Fabricated by Femtosecond Laser for Sensing and Laser Applications
• Peter Smith, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
  Title to be Announced
• Joel Villatoro, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain
  Supermode Fiber Bragg Gratings

Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon and Nanophotonics (IPR)

• Firooz Aflatouni, University of Pennsylvania, United States
  Title to be Announced
• Yasuhiko Arakawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
  Advances in Quantum Dot Lasers for Silicon Photonics
• Sujith Chandran, GlobalFoundries, United States
  Scalable Monolithic Silicon Photonics for High Speed Pluggables and CPO Modules
• Hao-Jing Chen, California Institute of Technology, United States
  Towards Fibre-like Loss for Photonic Integration from Violet to Near-infrared
• Behrad Gholipour, University of Alberta, Canada
  Title to be Announced
• Qiushi Guo, CUNY Advanced Science Research Center, United States
  Ultra-wideband and Ultrafast Integrated Nonlinear and Quantum Photonics on Lithium Niobate
• Takahiro Kashiwazaki, NTT Corporation, Japan
  Broadband High-level Squeezed Light Generation Using Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate Waveguide
• Nobuyuki Matsuda, Tohoku University, Japan
  Quantum Information and Communication Using Silicon Photonic Circuits
• Richard Mirin, University of California Santa Barbara, United States
  Title to be Announced
• Arnan Mitchell, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
  Lithium Niobate Integrated Photonics: Can Nitride Loading Compete with Direct Etching?
• Rajveer Nehra, U Mass Amherst, 
  Title to be Announced
• Minah Seo, Sogang University, Republic Of Korea
  Scalable On-Chip Terahertz Metasurface Sensing Platform for Biochemical Detection
• Dawn Tan, Singapore Univ. of Technology & Design, Singapore
  Nonlinear Control of Topological Photonic Modes
• Yanran Xie, Jabil, Inc., Canada
  Volume Production and Assembly of Packaged Silicon Transceivers with Electronics Manufacturing Services Providers
• Yuki Yamada, NTT Corporation, Japan
  High-Speed InGaAs/InP Photodiodes for Applications Beyond 200 Gbaud
• Ryotatsu Yanagimoto, NTT Research Inc., United States
  Programmable Nonlinear Photonics with Arbitrarily Reconfigurable Quasi-phase Matching
• Xiaoke Yi, University of Sydney, Australia
  Title to be Announced

Nonlinear Photonics (NP)

• Sergio Carbajo, University of California Los Angeles, United States
  Frequency Conversion in Gas-filled Fibers
• Alireza Marandi, California Institute of Technology, United States
  Ultrafast Neuromorphic Computing
• Gregory Moille, National Inst of Standards & Technology, United States
  Micro-resonator Frequency Combs
• Galan Moody, University of California Santa Barbara, United States
  Integrated Nonlinear Quantum Photonics
• Konstantinos Pantzas, C2N-CNRS, France
  Orientation Patterned GaP Waveguides for Integrated Nonlinear Photonics
• Yannick Salamin, University of Central Florida, CREOL, United States
  Optical Computing
• Harald Schwefel, University of Otago, New Zealand
  Frequency Combs and Nonlinear Optics in THz Domain

Novel Optical Materials and Applications (NOMA)

• Rohith Chandrasekar, Leidos, United States
  Recent Advances and Future Outlooks for Optical and Photonic Materials to Address Space and Defense Applications Keynote
• Richard Brutchey, University of Southern California, 
  Controlling Halide Perovskite Surface Chemistry for Optical Applications Using Ionic Liquids
• Chih-Hao Chang, University of Texas at Austin, United States
  3D Lithography and Patterning of Low-index Nanolattice Materials for Photonics
• Xiangfeng Duan, University of California Los Angeles, United States
  Recent Advances in 2D Optical Materials
• Benjamin Gray, US Air Force Research Laboratory, 
  Scalable Production of High-Quality Single Crystal Fibers
• Jayakanth Ravichandran, University of Southern California, 
  Complex Chalcogenides for Infrared Photonics
• S. J. Ben Yoo, University of California Davis, United States
  Overcoming Limitations of Conventional and New Materials by Heterogeneous Integration: Challenges and Opportunities

Photonic Networks and Devices (Networks)

• Yi Cai, ZTE TX Inc, China
  Advanced Applications of Distributed Optical Fiber Sensing for Real-Time Monitoring in Nuclear Power Systems
• Kazuhiro Ikeda, AIST Tokyo, Japan
  Scalable Photonic Switches
• Pantea Nadimi Goki, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
  PUF-based Authentication for QKD Networks
• Paola Parolari, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  Advanced and Secure Optical Access Networks
• Christine Tremblay, École de technologie supérieure, Canada
  Towards Automated and Interpretable ML for Quality of Transmission Estimation in Optical Networks
• Jiawei Zhang, Beijing University of Posts & Telecom, China
  Time Deterministic Passive Optical Networks: Challenges and Solutions
• Jim Zou, ADTRAN, Inc, United States
  Edge Networking

Signal Processing in Photonic Communications (SPPCom)

• Stefano Grillanda, Nokia Bell Labs, United States
  All-optical MIMO for Space-division-multiplexing Systems Keynote
• Frank Effenberger, Futurewei Technologies Inc, United States
  Recent Progress in Optical Access Networks and Their Signal Processing Needs Tutorial
• Benedikt Geiger, Communications Engineering Lab (CEL), Germany
  Modeling Equalization-Enhanced Phase Noise
• Giulia Guarda, Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
  Integrated Photonic Platforms for Quantum Networks
• Gaurav Jain, Pilot Photonics, Ireland
  Title to be Announced
• Bahram Jalali, University of California Los Angeles, United States
  Beyond the Power Wall: Eliminating the Coherent DSP Tax in Data Centers via Photonic Time Stretch Physics
• Tobias Kippenberg, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
  Title to be Announced
• Han Hyub Lee, Electronics and Telecom Research Inst, Republic Of Korea
  DSP and APD-Enabled Feedforward Monitoring for Optical Distribution Network in High-Speed PONs
• Samuel Lennard, University College London, United Kingdom
  Title to be Announced
• Haik MARDOYAN, Nokia Bell Labs, France
  High Throughput Transmission Systems Over the HCF
• Kayol Mayer, Huawei Technologies, France
  Title to be Announced
• Yanni Ou, Beijing University of Posts & Telecom, China
  On the Trade-offs of DSP Design for Very High-Speed Bandwidth-limited Flexible PON
• Xiaodan Pang, Zhejiang University, China
  Title to be Announced
• Lutz Rapp, Adtran Networks SE, Germany
  Title to be Announced
• Ann Margareth Rosa Brusin, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
  High-Speed Intra-Datacenter Connections Based on VCSEL-MMF Links: Advances and Solutions
• Charles St-Arnault, McGill University, Canada
  Faster-than-Nyquist Transmission and Digital Signal Processing for the Next Generation of DCIs
• Ken Tanizawa, Tamagawa Daigaku, Japan
  Ultra-high-speed Spatially Multiplexed Quantum Random Number Generator Based on Vacuum Fluctuations
• Erwan Weckenmann, Université Laval, Canada
  Ultra-Compact Super-Channel Transmitter for Coherent Lite Datacenter Interconnects
• David Winter, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Germany
  Real-time SDM MIMO DSP using GPUs
• Yaxi Yan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
  Title to be Announced
• Weiming Yao, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands
  Title to be Announced
• Lu Zhang, Zhejiang University, China
  Photonics Terahertz DSCM Communication Systems

Solar, Lighting and Thermal Photonics (SOLITH)

• Salmaan Craig, University of California Los Angeles, United States
  Title to be Announced
• Michael Deceglie, National Laboratory of the Rockies, United States
  Title to be Announced
• David Fenning, University of California San Diego, United States
  Title to be Announced
• Vivian Ferry, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, United States
  Title to be Announced
• Adam Overvig, Stevens Institute of Technology, United States
  Title to be Announced
• Michelle Povinelli, University of Southern California, United States
  Title to be Announced
• abhishek srivastava, Hong Kong Univ of Science & Technology, Hong Kong
  Title to be Announced

Specialty Optical Fibers (SOF)

• Nicolas Joly, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
  Quantum Optics in Specialty Fibers Keynote
• Wilfried Blanc, CNRS, France
  Structuring of Nanoparticle-doped Optical Fibers at the µm-scale
• Robert Bogdanowicz, Politechnika Gdanska, Poland
  Silica–Diamond Interface Formation Dynamics During Specialty Optical Fiber Preform Processing
• Leonard Budd, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
  Inline Non-destructive Characterization of Hollow Core Fibers
• Almantas Galvanauskas, University of Michigan, United States
  Mid-IR Milijoule Energy Amplification in Er: ZBLAN Fibers
• Nikoleta Kotsina, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom
  Generation and Characterisation of TW-scale Optical Attosecond Pulses and Tunable GW-level Far-ultraviolet Radiation via Extreme Soliton Dynamics
• Jie Luo, Yangtze Optical Fibre & Cable Co, China
  HCF and/or MCF, What's the Next?
• Jonas Osório, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Brazil
  Recent Advances on Hollow-Core Fiber-Based Sensors for Physical Parameters