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)

• Martin Bernier, Université Laval, Canada
  FBG-based Mid-IR Fiber Laser Development at LumIR Lasers
• 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
• Jason Grenier, Corning Inc., United States
  2D and 3D optical waveguides for Co-Packaged Optics
• Christopher Holmes, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
  Bragg Gratings Beyond Round Fibre
• Hubert Jean-Ruel, Carleton University, Canada
  Toward Deployable Bio-Brillouin Instrumentation Using Fiber Gratings
• Matthieu Lancry, Universite Paris-Saclay, France
  How Far Can Glass Go? Limits of Laser-Written Photonics at High Temperature
• Yunqi Liu, Shanghai University, China
  Long-term Thermal Stability of Fiber Grating Sensors for Industry Application
• Alexandre Mermillod-Blondin, Max-Born Institut, Germany
  Strong Field Photoinscription in Solid Dielectrics with Few-cycle Pulses
• Remco Nieuwland, Somni Solutions, Netherlands
  Title to be Announced
• Stavros Pissadakis, FORTH-IESL, Greece
  Fiber-to-the-Tree: Optical Fiber Sensors for Precision Agriculture
• Jie Qiao, Rochester Institute of Technology, United States
  Monolithic Frequency-Converted Waveguide Laser via Ultrafast Laser Inscription
• 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
  Nonlinear Optical Based Display for AI Smart Glasses
• Dmitry Starodubov, DSTAR Communications Inc., United States
  Non-Collinear Photoinduced Second Harmonic Generation
• Joel Villatoro, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain
  Supermode Fiber Bragg Gratings
• Jianping Yao, University of Ottawa, Canada
  Silicon Photonic Integrated Bragg Gratings

Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon and Nanophotonics (IPR)

• Firooz Aflatouni, University of Pennsylvania, United States
  Electronic-photonic Co-design: from Deep Neural Networks to Ising Solvers
• 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
• Cristian Ciraci, Neurophos Inc, United States
  Integrated Reconfigurable Metasurface Photonic Systolic Arrays for High-Performance, Energy Efficient AI Interference
• Behrad Gholipour, University of Alberta, Canada
  Growth-Programmed Optical Resonances and Switching Energetics in Phase Change Metastructures
• 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
  Heterogeneously Integrated Semiconductor Lasers for Quantum Systems
• Arnan Mitchell, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
  Lithium Niobate Integrated Photonics: Can Nitride Loading Compete with Direct Etching?
• Rajveer Nehra, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 
  Thin-Film Lithium Niobate for Bosonic Quantum Information Systems
• Yasutomo Ota, Keio University, Japan
  Hybrid Integrated Quantum–classical Nanophotonics Via Transfer Printing
• Peter Rakich, Yale University, United States
  THz Bandwidth Nonmagnetic Isolators in Silicon Photonics
• 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
  Silicon Carbide Integrated Photonics

Nonlinear Photonics (NP)

• Esther Baumann, National Inst of Standards & Technology, United States
  Dual Comb Spectroscopy for Imaging and Sensing
• Sergio Carbajo, University of California Los Angeles, United States
  Frequency Conversion in Gas-filled Fibers
• Scott Diddams, University of Colorado Boulder, United States
  UV to MIR Frequency Combs with Nanophotonic Thin-Film Lithium Niobate
• Shiqian Ding, Tsinghua University, China
  Engineered Chi(3) Nonlinearity in Atomic Vapor
• Shun Fujii, Keio University, Japan
  High-Power Picosecond Kerr Soliton Microcombs
• Alireza Marandi, California Institute of Technology, United States
  Ultrafast Quantum and Classical Nonlinear Nanophotonic Circuits
• Gregory Moille, Joint Quantum Institute, United States
  The On-chip microcomb Self-referencing Bottleneck and How to Solve it with Dual-driven Cavity Solitons
• 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
• William Renninger, University of Rochester, 
  Brillouin Interactions with Long Photon Lifetimes
• Yannick Salamin, University of Central Florida, CREOL, United States
  Probabilistic Photonic Computing from Quantum Vacuum Fluctuations
• Harald Schwefel, University of Otago, New Zealand
  Frequency Combs and Nonlinear Optics in THz Domain
• Fan Yang, Shanghai Inst of Optics and Fine Mech, China
  Pulsed Stimulated Brillouin Microscopy for Fast, Low-phototoxicity Biomechanical Imaging of Living Systems
• Mengjie Yu, University of California Berkeley, United States
  Unifying Nonlinear Functionalities on Thin Film Lithium Niobate for Ultrafast and Quantum Applications

Novel Optical Materials and Applications (NOMA)

• John Bernardin, Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States
  Developments in the Additive Manufacturing of Optical Lenses Using Laser Directed Energy Deposition
• 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
• Benjamin Gray, US Air Force Research Laboratory, 
  Scalable Production of High-Quality Single Crystal Fibers
• Hayk Harutyunyan, Emory University, United States
  Electrical Control of Light–Matter Interactions and Nonlinear Optics in Plasmonic Tunnel Junctions
• Pankaj Jha, Syracuse University, United States
  High-Temperature Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors
• Heungsoo Kim, US Naval Research Laboratory, United States
  Epitaxial BaTiO3 Thin Films Integrated on Si by Pulsed Laser Deposition for Large Electro-optic Response
• W. Kort-Kamp, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 
  Toward a Metasurface Genome: Generative AI for Photonic Design
• Michael Leuenberger, University of Central Florida, CREOL, 
  Topology-Enabled Optical Rectification in Asymmetrically Patterned Gold Metasurfaces
• Kung-Hsuan Lin, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
  Optical Second Harmonic Generation from Ferroelectric Tin Monochalcogenides
• Tsuyoshi Minami, University of Tokyo, Japan
  Paper-based Chemosensor Array Devices for Pattern Recognition-driven Sensing
• Sunil Mittal, Northeastern University, United States
  Optical Frequency Combs in Topologically-Engineered Ring Resonator Arrays
• Jeong Moon, HRL Laboratories, LLC, United States
  Recent Advances in Electrically Reconfigurable Metsurfaces and Their Applications
• Michelle Povinelli, University of Southern California, United States
  Thermal Detectors with Custom Multi-spectral Response
• Jayakanth Ravichandran, University of Southern California, 
  Complex Chalcogenides for Infrared Photonics
• Jia Xu Brian Sia, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  The Chip-Scale Unification of the Terahertz and GHz
• Paige Stinson, MetaForge Technology, 
  Mechanically Responsive Microstructured Optics via Two-Photon Polymerization: Recent Progress and Next Steps
• George Williams, NanoVox LLC, United States
  Volumetric Refractive Index and Dispersion Engineering for Apochromatic GRIN Optics via Multi-Material Additive Manufacturing
• Tomoyuki Yokota, University of Tokyo, 
  Ultra-flexible Organic Photonic Device for Sensor Applications
• S. J. Ben Yoo, University of California Davis, United States
  Overcoming Limitations of Conventional and New Materials by Heterogeneous Integration: Challenges and Opportunities
• Boxuan Zhou, University of California Los Angeles, United States
  Recent Advances in 2D Optical Materials
• Anna Ziefuss, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany
  Engineering Nanomaterials by Light: Scalable Ligand-Free Laser Synthesis in Liquids for Advanced Materials Processing

Photonic Networks and Devices (Networks)

• Clint Schow, University of California Santa Barbara, United States
  Photonic Integration for Data Centers Systems and Networks Tutorial
• 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
• Linqi Xiao, University of Texas at Dallas, United States
  Microservice-Based Impairment-Aware Hierarchical PCE Supporting Federated Multi-Operator Photonic Fabric
• 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)

• 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
• Stefano Grillanda, Nokia Bell Labs, United States
  All-optical MIMO for Space-division-multiplexing Systems
• Giulia Guarda, Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
  Integrated Photonic Platforms for Quantum Networks
• Gaurav Jain, Pilot Photonics, Ireland
  Monolithically Integrated Comb Lasers for Optical Transceiver Scaling and mmWave Generation
• 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
  Next Generation Integrated Photonics: from Lithium Tantalate Based Modulators to Erbium Doped Integrated Lasers, Amplifiers and Femtosecond Lasers
• 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
  Monolithically Integrated Comb Lasers for Optical Transceiver Scaling and mmWave Generation
• Haik MARDOYAN, Nokia Bell Labs, France
  High Throughput Transmission Systems Over the HCF
• Kayol Mayer, Huawei Technologies, France
  Advances in ML-monitored oDSP Parameters for DT-based QoT Estimation
• 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
  Mid-Infrared Free Space Optical Transmissions enabled by Semiconductor Optoelectronics
• Lutz Rapp, Adtran Networks SE, Germany
  Amplification Challenges in Ultra-wideband Communication Systems
• 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, 
  Integrated Forward Optical Fiber Sensing and Communication Systems
• Weiming Yao, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands
  InP Photonic Components for Analog Signal Processing
• Lu Zhang, Zhejiang University, China
  Photonics Terahertz DSCM Communication Systems

Solar, Lighting and Thermal Photonics (SOLITH)

• Peter Bermel, Purdue University, United States
  Advanced Design and Applications of Emerging Radiative Cooling Structures
• Michael Deceglie, National Laboratory of the Rockies, United States
  Unintended Consequences: Connections Between Optical Gains and Reliability in PV Modules
• Guillermo Esparza, University of California San Diego, United States
  From Perovskites to Zintls: Assessing Performance Limits in Emerging Solar Absorbers
• Vivian Ferry, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, United States
  Large-area, Nanoscale Optics for Photovoltaics, Agrivoltaics, and Radiative Cooling
• Adam Overvig, Stevens Institute of Technology, United States
  Customization of Narrowband Thermal Emission Using Nonlocal Metasurfaces
• Michelle Povinelli, University of Southern California, United States
  Designing the Angular and Spectral Properties of Thermal Emitters
• Abhishek Srivastava, Hong Kong Univ of Science & Technology, Hong Kong
  Quantum Rods: Materials for LED Devices
• Luat Vuong, University of California Riverside, United States
  Light-enhanced Evaporation with White Wick: Towards Photovoltaic Charge Transfer to Solvent
• Matthew Wong, University of Texas at Dallas, United States
  Development of Device Technology for Micro-Light-Emitting Diodes
• Lin Zhao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
  Title to be Announced

Specialty Optical Fibers (SOF)

• 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
• Erik Schartner, University of Adelaide, Australia
  New Fiber Structures Via Glass Extrusion
• Mario Simard, Viavi Solutions Inc, Canada
  Hollow-core Fiber Testing and the Challenges in the Field Deployments
• Grzegorz Sobon, Politechnika Wroclawska, Poland
  Nonlinearity Management in Optical Fibers for Ultrashort Laser Pulse Generation Supported with Machine Learning
• Francesco Tani, Max-Planck-Inst Physik des Lichts, Germany
  Recent Advances in Twisted Hollow-core Fibres
• Austin Taranta, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
  Hollow Core Fibres for Compact, High-Performance Sensors: Challenges, Trade-offs, and Opportunities
• Kovendhan Vijayan, Nokia Bell Labs, United States
  Technologies and Sensing Techniques for Next-Generation PON