Invited Speakers
26 - 30 July 2026
Hilton Long Beach
Long Beach,
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)
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)
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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 -
Joel Villatoro, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain
Supermode Fiber Bragg Gratings
Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon and Nanophotonics (IPR)
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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
Title to be Announced -
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)
Novel Optical Materials and Applications (NOMA)
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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)
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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
Signal Processing in Photonic Communications (SPPCom)
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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,
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, Teragear, Germany
Title to be Announced -
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